Students and survivors laid flowers at the memorial cenotaph with the ruins of a domed building in the background

Sri Lanka’s parliament yesterday voted overwhelmingly to dismiss Police Chief Deshabandu Tennakoon for misconduct and criminal behaviour, making him the island’s first inspector-general to be impeached.

Japan logged a new heat record yesterday, with the mercury hitting 41.8C, the weather office said, warning temperatures may rise further still.

The level surpassed the previous record of 41.2C set only last week. The previous high was 41.1C -- seen in 2020 and in 2018.

Chinese authorities evacuated over 82,000 people across Beijing at risk from heavy rainfall, state media said, after dozens of people died in flooding in the capital's suburbs last week

Seventeen heat records were broken in Japan yesterday, the weather agency said, after the country sweltered through its hottest ever June and July.

The death toll from floods in Vietnam’s mountainous north has risen to 10, disaster authorities said yesterday.

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.