Floods and landslides triggered by Tropical Storm Wipha since last month have killed six people and affected more than 230,000 people across Thailand, disaster management officials said yesterday.

Japan sweltered through its hottest July since records began in 1898, the weather agency has reported, warning of further “severe heat” in the month ahead.

A Myanmar junta air strike on a rebel-occupied ruby mining hub killed 13 people yesterday, according to a resident and a spokesperson for an armed opposition group.

Pakistan yesterday issued a new call for Afghans living in the southwest to leave the country, triggering thousands to rush to the border, officials said.

South Korea’s ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol, who is in detention while on trial and facing various criminal probes, lay on the floor of his cell yesterday and refused to leave it for questioning, a spokesperson for a special prosecutor said.

A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Thursday sentenced more than 100 members of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan's party to prison terms on charges related to riots that targeted military sites in 2023, a court order said.

Trump ordered stiff tariffs on dozens of trading partners in an effort to reshape global trade in favour of the US economy

Myanmar’s military yesterday nominally transferred power to a civilian-led interim government ahead of a planned December election, with the junta chief remaining in charge of the war-torn country in his other role as acting president.

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the United States will impose a 25 percent tariff on goods imported from India starting on August 1.

Ten people have been confirmed dead after a bus went missing on Sunday in China’s northern Shanxi province, as heavy rain lashed the region this week, state media said yesterday.

Japan sweltered in a new record temperature of 41.2C yesterday, with the mercury also hitting 40C in the ancient capital of Kyoto for the first time since observations began.

China said yesterday it would conduct joint military drills with Russia in August, including sea and air exercises near Vladivostok and joint naval patrols in the Pacific.

A massive operation to remove hundreds of tonnes of radioactive debris from Japan’s tsunami-stricken Fukushima nuclear plant has been delayed until at least 2037, the operator said yesterday.

The Pahalgam attack left 26 people, mostly tourists, dead

Heavy rains in the Chinese capital Beijing have killed 30 people and prompted authorities to evacuate 80,000, state media said Tuesday

Firefighters battled blazes across Turkey on Monday, as the country sweltered in a summer heatwave, officials said.

Thailand and Cambodia’s leaders agreed to an “unconditional” ceasefire yesterday, after five days of combat along their jungle-clad frontier that has killed at least 36 people.

The stampede in Barabanki came a day after a stampede in Haridwar's Mansa Devi Temple left eight people dead and around 30 injured

They are among thousands of families whose houses have been bulldozed in the past few weeks by authorities

More than 200,000 people have been evacuated from border areas in the two countries