Asia

China's C919 jet, billed as a Boeing and Airbus rival, completed its first international commercial flight from Beijing to Ulaanbaatar on Wednesday.

Former Chinese premier Zhu Rongji, architect of market reforms that fueled China's economic rise, died from illness in Beijing on Wednesday.

North Korea fired a ballistic missile toward the Sea of Japan on Wednesday, just days before the US and South Korea begin their annual joint military drills

UNESCO report states 2.4 million girls have been banned from Afghan schools since the Taliban's return, warning the exclusion harms the national economy

India probes a sudden Air India flight plunge that injured 24 people, as local media reports the chief pilot failed a secondary drug screening test

Lebanon's parliament abolished the death penalty on Tuesday, becoming the first Middle Eastern country to formally end the practice

Typhoon Dolphin has flooded streets in central China's Hubei province as Beijing braces for over a third of its annual rainfall

Two Pakistanis are reported among 3 crew killed in an attack on a ship near Yemen's Bab al-Mandeb Strait

A Syrian court sentenced Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia on Tuesday, his first conviction since being ousted in December 2024

A 7.4-magnitude earthquake in Colombia has killed at least 111 people and damaged 1,500 buildings, as rescuers dig through rubble searching for survivors

India's parliament clears the way for merchant fees on UPI digital payments, as the government looks to fund infrastructure and cybersecurity upgrades.

A Saudi factory fire in Riyadh has killed 16 Bangladeshi migrant workers, Dhaka's foreign ministry says, as repatriation efforts begin for the victims.

Bangladesh PM Tarique Rahman seeks a "conducive environment" to reset ties with India as Dhaka presses for Hasina's extradition

Jharkhand exam protests intensify in Ranchi as students march on the state assembly and hunger strikers demand an overhaul of recruitment testing

Typhoon Dolphin makes landfall in eastern China with 150 km/h winds, after triggering over 1,000 flight cancellations and mass evacuations.

Nepal rescuers find the bodies of five climbers killed in a Yalung Ri avalanche last year, with recovery efforts underway

Typhoon Dolphin injures five and cuts power to 14,000 buildings in Okinawa, as China shuts ports and cancels ferries ahead of landfall this weekend

Bangladesh says cricketer Shakib Al Hasan will not play again after he joined a media event with ousted leader Sheikh Hasina

Iraq's PM was invited to Riyadh after US-Saudi strikes killed 20 militants, as Tehran-backed groups delay their threatened response

US Senate passed a sweeping Russia sanctions bill targeting energy revenues, with tariffs up to 500 percent on Russian oil and gas