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

Large crowds had gathered at the site for prayers

More than 30 people have been killed and more than 130,000 people displaced in the worst fighting between the Southeast Asian neighbours in 13 years.

Police in India have arrested a man accused of running a fake embassy from a rented house near New Delhi and duping job seekers out of money with promises of overseas employment.

Fighting on the Thai-Cambodian border extended into a third day and new flashpoints emerged yesterday as both sides said they had acted in self-defence in the border dispute and called on the other to cease fighting and start negotiations.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a $565-million credit line and launched free trade talks with the Maldives yesterday during a visit to the Indian Ocean archipelago, where India competes with China for influence.

Thailand and Cambodia fought their bloodiest military clashes in more than a decade yesterday, with at least 12 people killed as the two sides battled with tanks, artillery, and ground forces over a disputed border zone.

Myanmar’s junta yesterday claimed to have ousted anti-coup rebels from a gold mining hub after a year-long battle, its second declared recapture of a key town in a week.

Chinese-made engines are being covertly shipped via front companies to a state-owned drone manufacturer in Russia, labelled as “industrial refrigeration units” to avoid detection in the wake of Western sanctions, according to three European security officials and documents reviewed by Reuters.

The Philippines shut down schools and cancelled flights yesterday as typhoon-driven rains pounded the northern island of Luzon, a situation President Ferdinand Marcos called “the new normal”.

India’s financial crime-fighting agency searched 35 locations linked to Reliance Anil Ambani Group as part of an investigation into alleged money laundering and siphoning of public funds, a government source said yesterday.

Chinese President Xi Jinping urged top European Union officials yesterday to “properly handle differences and frictions” as he criticised Brussels’s recent trade actions against Beijing at a tense summit dominated by concerns on trade and the Ukraine war.

Five of the 12 were convicted by the trial court and given the death penalty

A Myanmar junta drone targeting anti-coup fighters crashed over the border in Thailand, the kingdom’s military said, prompting an official rebuke over hazardous spillover from the civil war.