Indonesia's foreign ministry on Tuesday condemned "in the strongest terms" the attacks in southern Lebanon that killed three United Nations peacekeepers from Indonesia, adding that ongoing Israeli military operations have placed U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon at grave risk. The three Indon
Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing was nominated by a lawmaker on Monday for a parliamentary vote that will select the new president of the war-torn Southeast Asian nation, as the powerful veteran general seeks a political role. Min Aung Hlaing, who currently also serves as Myanmar's military chi
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has ordered the acceleration of waste-to-energy development, stressing that waste in major cities should be immediately processed into energy as part of efforts to address the country's long-standing waste problem. The directive was delivered during a meeting
A fire broke out around lunchtime at a car parts factory in the South Korean city of Daejeon on Friday, leaving 10 people dead, 25 seriously injured and 34 with minor injuries, the country's safety ministry said on Saturday. Four other workers were still missing, and the government has activated a
Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan held a joint press conference earlier on Thursday. Al-Thani, who is also Qatar's foreign minister, said that Iran had destroyed Qatar's trust with its "aggression," and that trust needed to be r
Human factors rendered ineffective almost all the fire safety measures at the site of a Hong Kong blaze that killed 168 people in November, the lead lawyer for a panel led by a judge that is investigating the inferno said on Thursday. The Independent Committee set up by Hong Kong leader Joh
Almost all the civilians killed in Iranian missile and drone attacks in the United Arab Emirates were from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal, with only one victim from outside South Asia. Authorities in the UAE have released the names of the six civilians killed in the attacks. The list shows that on
At least 10 people were killed in a fire that broke out in the trauma care unit of a hospital in the eastern Indian state of Odisha on Monday, officials said. Five people were critically wounded, but it was not clear if it was from the fire or earlier injuries. The fire was likely to have been
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said on Sunday that the government was not planning to hold direct talks with Lebanon in the coming days and had not told the United States it was running low on missile interceptors. Israel's Haaretz newspaper reported on Saturday that Israel and
North Korea fired a projectile towards the sea on Saturday, South Korea and Japan said, with Tokyo saying it may have been a ballistic missile, while the US and South Korea conducted military drills. The projectile was fired toward the sea off North Korea's east coast, the South Korean military sa
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Afghan counterpart Amir Khan Muttaqi in a phone call that disputes between Afghanistan and Pakistan should be resolved through dialogue and consultation, not force, the foreign ministry said in a statement published on Friday. Wang urged both sides to rema
Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is reportedly “safe and sound” following unconfirmed reports of an injury during the ongoing war, a government adviser said. Yousef Pezeshkian, son of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, told Instagram followers that he had inquired wit
Two Iranian drones struck near Dubai International Airport on Wednesday, injuring four people, authorities said, though flights continued at the world’s busiest international hub. The Dubai Media Office reported minor injuries to two Ghanaian and one Bangladeshi national, and moderate injuri
