Southeast Asian countries, including Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Indonesia, are facing an influx of illegal waste shipments from industrialized nations, with a considerable amount trafficked from Europe

Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 33,899 Palestinians and wounded 76,664 since October 7, the Palestinian enclave's health ministry said today

When an Israeli shell struck Gaza's largest fertility clinic in December, the explosion blasted the lids off five liquid nitrogen tanks stored in a corner of the embryology unit

Dubai's giant highways were clogged by flooding and airport passengers were urged to stay away on Wednesday as the glitzy financial centre reeled from record rains

The election cycle sprawls over 44 days, long even by India's standards, as the 2019 vote lasted 39 days.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde yesterday met with Bollywood super star Salman Khan at the latter's residence in Mumbai and assured him of protection after two persons were arrested in connection with firing outside the actor's house

The UN Security Council will vote Thursday on the Palestinians' application to become a full member state of the United Nations, several diplomatic sources told AFP

Even small delays in Japan's much-vaunted bullet trains are rare, and more unusual still are snakes on board holding up the speedy "shinkansen" services

Myanmar's detained former leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from prison to house arrest, a spokesperson for the military government told media

The United States said Tuesday it would soon impose new sanctions on Iran's missile and drone programme after its weekend attack on Israel, and that it expects its allies and partners to follow with parallel measures

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan will be conferred the Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar award, the Mangeshkar family announced yesterday

The United Nations on Wednesday will launch a $2.8 billion appeal for donations this year to help the war-ravaged population of the Gaza Strip as well as West Bank Palestinians

A lack of air defence missiles prevented Ukraine from thwarting a Russian missile attack last week that destroyed the biggest power plant in the region around the capital Kyiv, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

Australian police yesterday said a knife attack on an Assyrian church bishop and some followers in Sydney was a “terrorist act” motivated by suspected religious extremism, as the country reeled from a second stabbing incident in three days.

Lebanon’s Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah claimed an attack on Israel using two explosive drones yesterday which Israeli local authorities said wounded three people.

The prospect of Israeli retaliation against Iran for its drone and missile attack on the weekend has alarmed many Iranians already facing economic pain and tighter social and political controls after protests in 2022-23.

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said yesterday it had found unexploded 1,000-pound bombs inside schools after Israel pulled troops out of southern Gaza’s main city Khan Yunis.

Israel and Iran traded threats yesterday after Tehran’s first-ever direct attack on its arch-foe sharply heightened regional tensions.

Indian security forces killed at least 29 Maoist rebels in a gunbattle in the central state of Chhattisgarh yesterday, police said, days before the start of elections in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seeking a third straight term.

Astronomers identified the largest stellar black hole yet discovered in the Milky Way, with a mass 33 times that of the Sun, according to a study published yesterday.