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
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
