Asia

India's weather agency has warned of extreme heat intensified by El Nino, with temperatures hitting 48.2C

Iran's Revolutionary Guards warned the Middle East war will spread beyond the region if the US and Israel resume strikes

Israeli forces intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla bound for Gaza, detaining 430 activists

Marco Rubio heads to Sweden for NATO talks on defence spending, then India for his first visit since Trump took office

Trump warned the US may strike Iran again just a day after holding off a major assault, as Tehran threatened to open new fronts

Indian PM Narendra Modi pledged at an Oslo summit to work with Nordic allies toward peace in Ukraine and the Middle East, while defending the rules-based global order

Putin arrives in Beijing for talks with Xi Jinping days after Trump's visit, aiming to show Russia-China ties remain unshakeable despite US-China diplomatic momentum

Adani Enterprises agreed to pay $275 million to the US Treasury over alleged Iran sanctions violations, days after settling a separate US bribery case for $18 million

India and Sweden announced a strategic partnership on Sunday, targeting doubled bilateral trade within five years

A 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck Liuzhou city in China's Guangxi region on Monday, killing two and forcing over 7,000 to evacuate

Iran's parliament speaker and chief US negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has been appointed special representative for China affairs, Iranian media says

India's rupee has hit a record low of 96 to the dollar as Middle East conflict drives an oil shock, foreign outflows and a widening current account deficit

Bangladesh anti-terrorism police arrested a former soldier linked to a banned religious group after a weeks-long manhunt over a plot targeting key national sites

Israel confirmed Saturday that Hamas armed wing chief Ezzedine Al-Haddad was killed in a Gaza airstrike, with two Hamas officials also confirming his death