KABUL/QUETTA, Pakistan, July 1 - Afghanistan's Taliban said they launched airstrikes into Pakistani territory, while Islamabad said its forces had intercepted and shot down four rudimentary drones in the southern resource-rich province of Balochistan.
Climbers are encouraged to preregister online and complete entrance fee payments in advance.
Technology from American companies is being used to power a revolution in the scam industry, including in Southeast Asia, an investigation has found.
The requirement applies even in cases where losses are partly caused by user negligence.
Six victims were reportedly burnt alive, while two succumbed to head injuries sustained in the crash.
A total of 21,425 displaced Cambodians were still unable to return to their homes as at June 30.
The first deportee barely lasted two weeks after touching down in Palau.
Japan has a rapidly ageing population and is suffering labour shortages in many sectors, but opposition to immigration is growing.
He called for the party to coordinate better to tackle domestic and international issues.
BEIJING, July 1 - China's ruling Communist Party must keep pace with changing circumstances while safeguarding the advances it has made, President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday during celebrations for its 105th founding anniversary.
Beijing has tightened export controls on rare earths amid heightened Sino-Japanese tensions.
The Taliban had earlier vowed a response to deadly Pakistani airstrikes on eastern Afghanistan in late June.
Some Indian mariners saw their vessels attacked and their shipmates killed or wounded during the war.
SEOUL, July 1 - South Korea's Oceans Ministry said on Wednesday the cargo vessel Namu, operated by HMM, would exit the Strait of Hormuz in mid-July at the earliest once the damage sustained in an attack in May was repaired.
They were found collapsed in the bathroom of their home.
South Korean entertainment giant JoongAng Group has officially declared financial distress.
Daytime highs in Seoul have reached 33 deg C.
The move reflects the country’s rise to become the world’s second-largest economy.
He described recent summit talks with President Xi Jinping in Pyongyang as a “historic occasion”.
Amirudin Shari, a senior leader in Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim's party, also dismissed concerns that upcoming state elections in Johor and Negeri Sembilan will disrupt the current administration.
With seizures of drug-laced vapes rising, anti-narcotics officials are pushing for a ban on e-cigarettes and arguing that Indonesia remains behind many of its neighbours in regulating them.
Economic interdependence was once expected to guarantee peace. It now fuels resentment, says economics professor Danny Quah from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.
World Cup 2026 has shown that the future of football is not in Asia yet, says Gearoid Reidy for Bloomberg Opinion.
China has added 40 Japanese companies to its export control lists, accusing them of supporting Tokyo’s military buildup, as trade and military tensions between the two countries continue to escalate. China’s Ministry of Commerce said on Monday that 20 Japanese entities had been
June 30 - Russia's Foreign Ministry urged Pakistan and Afghanistan on Tuesday to use diplomacy to resolve their longstanding differences.
The dust has now settled on the ostentatious June summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang. But perhaps the biggest takeaway was what was left unsaid. Chinese readouts from the summit conspicuously excluded any mention of
The BBC's Katy Watson explains why troops are training in remote Australia, thousands of kilometres from any major conflicts.
Two people are taken into custody after the incident in the Kahna suburb of Lahore.
SAO PAULO, June 30 - The South American trade bloc Mercosur launched negotiations with Japan on Tuesday for an economic partnership agreement as it seeks to expand trade ties following a recent deal with the European Union.
Originally published by Pacific Forum, this article is republished with permission. On June 15, Japanese opposition lawmaker Chikage Koga said during a committee meeting in the upper house that children from economically disadvantaged families enlist in the Self-Defense Forces
A published report detailing how President Donald Trump’s eldest sons stand to profit from a tungsten mining deal negotiated by their billionaire father has sparked outraged calls for accountability, with Democratic lawmakers characterizing the taxpayer-funded project as yet
Two people have been been taken into custody over the incident.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday struck down President Donald Trump’s attempt to redefine the constitutional right to birthright citizenship. In the 6-3 decision, a majority of the justices upheld the country’s long understanding of automatic citizenship by birth on
BEIJING, June 30 - Li Changguan has been appointed party chief of China's civil affairs ministry, the ministry's website showed on Tuesday.
BAKU, June 30 - A legal framework could be drawn up this year on regional cooperation to monitor and seek to adapt to falling water levels in the Caspian Sea, which is shrinking at an accelerated pace, a senior Azerbaijani water official told Reuters.
The hospital used leftover or patient-brought psychotropic drugs.
Both sides agreed to establish a new trade and investment consultation mechanism.
Indonesia is one of the few countries in Southeast Asia where all 104 World Cup matches are available on free-to-air TV.
She will visit India from July 1 for the 16th India-Japan Annual Summit.
The jet aborted its descent minutes before it was due to land.
19 defendants on trial since April over allegations of trafficking at least 34 babies between 2023 and 2025.
AirAsia's Indonesian subsidiary Indonesia AirAsia previously provided a daily Singapore-Jakarta service, but this will be halted from July.
DOHA, June 30 - Top U.S. envoys were due to arrive in Qatar on Tuesday, but uncertainty over the timing and content of any diplomatic talks raised questions over efforts to bring a lasting halt to the Iran war and fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
The public is advised to stay at least 20m away from the seal and keep dogs much farther back.
The Asia-Pacific is experiencing an unprecedented transformation in ocean governance. Governments across the region are expanding marine protected areas, investing in blue carbon initiatives, deploying digital fisheries monitoring systems and positioning the ocean as a
June 30 - A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers has opened national security investigations into whether five drugmakers including Merck and AbbVie have been involved in clinical trials conducted in China that helped fuel the communist country's military capability.
ALMATY/ASTANA, June 30 - Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has promised a fundamental reshaping of the Central Asian nation under a new constitution that takes effect on Wednesday.
The 19 defendants are accused of selling at least 34 babies between 2022 and 2025, some of whom were taken to Singapore and sold for thousands of dollars for each child.
There were no injuries reported among the estimated 200 passengers and crew members on board the train.