South Korea's justice minister has pledged to expand access to judicial remedies for victims of state-led abuses, including foreign adoptees whose adoptions were marred by widespread fraud under previous military governments. Using unusually strong language for a senior South Korean official, Just
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te arrived in Eswatini on Saturday on a surprise trip, after his government blamed Chinese pressure for the cancellation of a visit that was meant to have taken place last month. China views democratically governed Taiwan as part of its territory with no righ
Yemen’s coast guard said on Saturday that the M/T EUREKA oil tanker had been hijacked off the coast of Shabwa province by unidentified armed men who boarded the vessel, seized control and steered it towards the Gulf of Aden in the direction of Somali waters. The coast gua
Bangladesh is emerging as more than an early market in ZKTOR’s South Asia rollout. It is becoming one of the clearest real-world tests of whether the region is ready for a different model of digital participation. According to the company, the privacy-led Indian social media platform has cro
Myanmar's junta leader-turned-president Min Aung Hlaing has issued new emergency ordinances to impose military control in 60 townships, a move aimed at tightening security in regions still mired in conflict despite the transition to civilian rule. The ordinances cover 60 townships across Kachin, K
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.4 struck off the northeastern coast of Japan on Monday afternoon, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. It warned of a tsunami as high as 3 metres (9.84 ft) in Iwate, Aomori and Hokkaido prefectures, reports Reuters. The tremor had an epicentre in t
Iran's foreign minister said on Friday that passage for all commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz is declared completely open for the remaining period of ceasefire, in line with the ceasefire in Lebanon. The passage of vessels through the strait will be on the coordi
Indian and Pakistani strategic experts, parliamentarians, and former diplomats have participated in at least four back-channel meetings since the high-intensity conflict in May 2025. The first of these engagements took place just two months after Operation Sindoor, according to the Hindustan Times
Arakan Army Commander-in-Chief Maj Gen Twan Mrat Naing has said they are expected to secure “final victory” in Rakhine State by 2027. He made the comments at an event marking the group’s 17th founding anniversary on Friday. Since late 2023, the Arakan Army has taken control of 1
Police lobbed tear gas shells and used "minimum force" on Monday to quell a factory workers' protest in the Indian national capital's suburb of Noida, which turned violent on its fourth day, with vehicles torched and stones pelted in parts of the satellite city. Noida is among the largest planned
Iran expects to restore most damaged refining and distribution facilities to 70–80 per cent of their pre-attack capacity within one to two months, a senior oil official said, as authorities work to recover from a wave of strikes on energy infrastructure. Deputy Minister of Oil Mohammad Sadeq
Saudi Arabia has restored full oil pumping capacity through the East-West pipeline to about seven million barrels per day, it said on Sunday, days after providing an assessment of damage on its energy sector from attacks during the Iran conflict. The ministry said energy facilities and the pipelin
Pranay Kumar Verma, the Indian high commissioner to Bangladesh, has been appointed as the country’s next ambassador to Belgium and the European Union. The Indian Ministry of External Affairs made the announcement in a press release on Friday. “He is expected to take up the assignment
