Asia

Modi and Putin embraced in New Delhi before talks on trade, energy and defense, a day ahead of the 11-member BRICS summit.

Iran and Saudi Arabia discuss regional insecurity by phone as Yemen's Houthis seize the port city of Mocha and fighting escalates

South Korea and Iran's foreign ministers discuss the Strait of Hormuz by phone, days after Seoul weighed a security 'contribution' there

Sheikh Hasina's daughter Saima Wazed quits her top UN job at the WHO after a corruption conviction and fraud allegations in Bangladesh

Anthropic says state-linked actors in China, Iran and west Africa used its AI models for spying, weapons design and dangerous biological research

Israel says it destroyed key Hezbollah tunnels beneath south Lebanon's Ali al-Taher ridge, in strikes felt as tremors across the region

Putin arrives in India for the BRICS summit as wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, plus Xi Jinping's first visit since 2019, dominate the agenda

India hosts a BRICS summit as wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, plus economic strain, test unity among the bloc's 11 members.

Bangladesh fights the world's worst measles outbreak as vaccination gaps from political upheaval fuel the spread, with nearly 1,000 dead

Nepal seeks survivors two weeks after deadly floods, with rescuers still searching hydropower tunnels for hundreds of missing workers

Iran says it captured a US submarine drone in the Strait of Hormuz, a Dive-LD vehicle the Pentagon says had malfunctioned

Iran and the US trade strikes as the Hormuz standoff deepens, with Iran attacking a Jordan base and 20 US vessels in the strait

Iran reports significant progress in Strait of Hormuz talks with Oman, as both sides work toward a temporary shipping route deal

Data on the Nepal glacier collapse shows record heat before the disaster, as researchers examine permafrost thaw and snowmelt as possible triggers

A wave of missile and drone attacks launched by Yemen's Houthi rebels targeted civilian and economic sites across southern Saudi Arabia, wounding 73 people and prompting the Saudi-led coalition to vow decisive operational retaliation

Iran holds the US responsible for deliberate attacks on civilians, accusing Washington of war crimes as Gulf tensions escalate

Nepal rescuers focus on 900 hydropower workers as officials say 121 could be trapped in flood-hit tunnels near the China border

Israel launches a wave of deadly strikes on south Lebanon, killing 12, as its military vows to keep targeting Hezbollah despite the ceasefire

IAEA head urges Iran to reengage with inspectors as US and European powers push for a UN Security Council referral

UN expert warns Israeli rubble-clearing in Gaza could destroy evidence of atrocity crimes and hinder recovery of thousands of remains