The billionaire sultan who rules Malaysia’s Johor state took his oath as the nation’s new king Wednesday under a unique rotating monarchy system.
Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar, 65, took his oath of office at the palace and signed the instru…
A Pakistani court on Tuesday sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan and one of his party deputies to 10 years in prison each, after finding them guilty of revealing official secrets.
The verdict was another blow to Khan, a former cricket star…
Iran successfully launched three satellites into space, the latest for a program that the West says improves Tehran's ballistic missiles, news agency Associated Press reported.
The state-run IRNA news agency said the launch also saw the…
A military transport plane that Russia said was carrying 74 people, including 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war to be swapped, crashed Wednesday in a border region near Ukraine. All aboard were killed, according to the governor.
It wasn’t immed…
Twenty-one soldiers were killed in the Gaza Strip in the deadliest attack on Israel’s forces since the October 7 Hamas raid that triggered the war, the military said Tuesday, a major setback that could add to mounting calls for a cease-fire.
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An earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale struck the Kyrgyzstan-Xinjiang border region on Tuesday with reports of several injuries and collapsed houses, Chinese state media reported.
The epicenter of the quake struck at 2:09 am (1809 GMT) …
A chartered flight from India to Moscow via Uzbekistan has crashed in the Badakhshan Province of Afghanistan, news agency Reuters reported on Sunday. At least six people are presumed to be on board.
According to Russian aviation authorities, it w…
Iran says it has hit a militant group in western Pakistan in a missile attack, its third air strike on another country this week after earlier attacks on targets in Iraq and Syria.
The operation hit two sites in Balochistan linked to the militant…
Celebrated Indian poet and litterateur Munawwar Rana passed away at Lucknow on Sunday night. He was 71.
Rana had been undergoing treatment for throat cancer at the Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences.
"He was hospital…
Taiwanese voters swept the ruling Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) presidential candidate Lai Ching-te into power on Saturday, strongly rejecting Chinese pressure to spurn him, as China said it would not give up on achieving "reunificat…
