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
Two policemen were killed and 32 others, including five policemen and 27 civilians, were injured in an explosion in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Saturday, police said. The incident happened in a market area in the tribal district of South Waziristan at about 5:00 pm local
The campaign that swept aside Nepal's established political heavyweights and brought 35-year-old rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah to the cusp of power emerged out of the top floors of a six-story building in west Kathmandu. Shah is the candidate for prime minister from the Rastriya Swatantra
Preliminary and partial results released Saturday showed a new political party led by an ex-rapper leading Nepal's parliamentary election, the country's first since last year's youth-led revolt. The Rastriya Swatantra, or National Independent, Party, had already won 27 of 165 directly elected seat
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian apologized to Arab Gulf nations in a remarkable address on Saturday morning, saying Tehran would stop striking its neighbors unless any attacks on Iran originated from those countries, CNN reports. He added that the three-member leadership council
Rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah's party gained leads in early counting in Nepal's general election, far outpacing his other rivals, including the country's former prime minister who was forced to resign after a historic youth-led uprising last year. Shah, 35, former mayor of the capital cit
The southern Indian state of Karnataka, home to the tech hub of Bengaluru, has banned the use of social media by those under the age of 16, state Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said on Friday, becoming the first in India to do so. "With the objective of preventing adverse effects of increasing mobi
Iranian state television reported Friday that a leadership council had started discussing how to convene the country's Assembly of Experts, which will select the new supreme leader. The leadership council includes President Masoud Pezeshkian, judiciary chief Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehi and cleric
Polls in Nepal’s general election closed on Thursday evening as the Himalayan nation gets ready to elect a new parliament nearly six months after the deaths of 77 people in a crackdown on youth-led protests forced its then prime minister to quit. Counting at most booths was likely to begin s
China said on Thursday it would build a "childbirth-friendly society" in the next five years, pledging to address concerns over employment, education, medical care, health and income, according to an official government report. Authorities will improve population services and respond proactively o
