Bangladeshi police have charged 26 people for destroying a swath of mangrove forest that protects the low-lying nation from storm surge waters exacerbated by climate…
Some 1.45 million Afghan refugees in Pakistan will be allowed to stay for another year, Islamabad said July 10, but it insisted evictions of undocumented…
Parts of north-west Delhi were flooded on July 11 after a breach in a canal that supplies water from a nearby state, and repair work…
A 22-year-old man was killed after being buried by a landslide in Pokhara on July 10. According to the District Police Office in Kaski, 22-year-old…
The Philippines will continue increasing defense spending as it seeks private sector’s support in safeguarding the nation’s claims in the disputed South China Sea. Defense…
Eleven members of a family returning home from a wake died July 11 when their pick-up truck collided with a passenger bus in the northern…
Myanmar ethnic minority fighters said July 10 they had seized a town along a key trade highway to China following days of clashes, in another…
Malaysia said it’s near a deal with Singapore to develop Southeast Asia’s first cross-border special economic zone, which the countries hope will lure new investment…
Six people were killed as record rains struck southwest China, state media reported July 11, as the country endures a summer of extreme weather. Torrential…
Taiwan's defence ministry said July 11 it had detected 66 Chinese military aircraft around the island in a 24-hour window, a record-high this year, a…
Beijing said July 10 it is kicking off a formal probe into EU practices after the bloc launched an anti-subsidy investigation of a range of…
South Korea will begin production of a laser weapon designed to strike down enemy drones for deployment this year, the defense procurement agency said July…
Riots in New Caledonia have claimed their 10th victim on July 10. The death took place as a result of an exchange of fire between…
Papua New Guinea's influential petroleum minister will plead not guilty to assaulting a woman near Sydney's famed Bondi Beach, his Australian lawyer told a court…
An Australian father faced triple murder charges July 11, accused of setting his home ablaze and locking the door with his seven children and their…
Fiji's suspended director of public prosecutions (DPP) wants the New Zealand government to intervene and "address a grave injustice perpetrated against" him by the Fijian…
Dozens of freshly-elected French far-right lawmakers visited parliament July 10, as the left-wing alliance who beat them in the polls scrambled for a viable candidate…
British lawmakers squeezed into parliament July 9 with Labour ministers sitting on the government's side of the chamber for the first time in 14 years…
Russia came under fire at the UN Security Council on July 9 for conducting "systemic attacks" on Ukraine's medical facilities after a wave of deadly…
The Kremlin said July 10 that it could not intervene in the situation of imprisoned government critic Vladimir Kara-Murza, who was hospitalised last week without…
Uganda on July 10 dismissed claims in a report by UN experts that it was backing M23 rebels active in the restive east of the…
Torrential flooding battered Sudan's southeast July 9, bringing entire villages underwater and causing homes to collapse, witnesses told AFP, in the first devastating weather event…
Moody's has downgraded Kenya's debt rating further into junk territory and warned the outlook was negative after a wave of protests led the government to…
Spain's Supreme Court on July 9 closed a "terrorism" investigation into Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont, who fled abroad in 2017 to avoid prosecution over…
Iran's reformist president-elect Masoud Pezeshkian will take the oath of office in parliament on July 30, a member of the legislature's presiding board, Mojtaba Yousefi,…
