Indian opposition parties yesterday criticised the government, describing US President Donald Trump’s threat of a 25 percent tariff as a diplomatic failure for New Delhi, while the rupee currency tumbled and equity indexes slid in response to the news.

Cambodia yesterday accused Thailand of detaining 20 of its soldiers and killing another in post-ceasefire incidents, as a fragile peace held for a third day along their disputed border.

An Indian court yesterday acquitted a firebrand Hindu nationalist nun and former lawmaker, and six others accused of participating in a deadly bombing near a mosque in 2008.

The opposition leader in Pakistan’s parliament was among more than 100 people convicted yesterday over nationwide protests in support of Imran Khan in 2023, his party said.

Palestinians in the village of Susiya in the Israeli-occupied West Bank thought life could not get worse as Jewish settlers were attacking them repeatedly and ripping apart their precious olive groves.

Countries across Pacific rim lifted tsunami warnings earlier yesterday, allowing millions of evacuees to return home.

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev yesterday told US President Donald Trump to remember that Moscow possessed Soviet-era nuclear strike capabilities of last resort after Trump told Medvedev to “watch his words”.

Extreme weather killed at least 60 people in northern China over the past week, with 31 deaths in an elderly care home in Beijing’s hilly Miyun district in one of the deadliest floods to have hit the Chinese capital in years.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian warned yesterday that dams supplying the capital could run dry within months unless water consumption was curbed.

A collection of hundreds of jewels linked to Buddha’s remains has returned to India after 127 years following an auction planned for earlier this year that drew threats of legal action from the government in Delhi.

Human trafficking for forced criminal activity is growing at an alarming rate, with hundreds of thousands of people trapped in online scamming centres across Southeast Asia, the United Nations said Wednesday.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas resigned yesterday amid an ongoing investigation into potential financial crimes by firms linked to him.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday urged his allies to bring about “regime change” in Russia, hours after a Russian drone and missile attack on Kyiv killed eight people including a six-year-old boy.

More than $87 billion in tariff revenue collected by end of June, surpassing $79 billion total for all of 2024

The United States said Thursday it would deny visas to Palestinian Authority officials, accusing the body which governs parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank of seeking to "internationalize" the situation

Trump has said the April tariffs were a response to persistent US trade imbalances and declining US manufacturing power.

The military declared a state of emergency in February 2021

Canada's announcement follows France and Britain in recognizing a Palestinian state.

No further details on the crash were provided. The cause of the crash is under investigation

Long wary of social media, the Catholic Church now sees it as a vital tool to spread the faith amid dwindling church attendance.