On December 13, 2025, the Thai military used two F-16 fighter jets to drop seven bombs

The former head of Pakistan’s powerful spy agency will appeal a 14-year hard labour sentence on charges including abuse of power, his lawyer said Friday, decrying a “sham” military trial.

Beijing’s actions are “not conducive to regional peace”, Japan’s defence minister and US counterpart Pete Hegseth agreed during a call after Chinese aircraft locked radar on Japanese jets near Taiwan, Tokyo said yesterday.

Thailand’s prime minister dissolved parliament yesterday, paving the way for general elections early next year as deadly border clashes continue with neighbour Cambodia.

Fighting raged yesterday along the border of Cambodia and Thailand, with explosions heard near centuries-old temples ahead of US President Donald Trump’s planned phone call to the leaders of both nations.

At least 15 people, including Thai soldiers and Cambodian civilians, have been killed in the reignited border conflict, officials say

Changing tariffs will also affect South Korea, India, Indonesia, Russia, Thailand, Turkey, Taiwan and Brazil

It comes after a huge blaze last month engulfed several high-rise residential towers in Hong Kong

This week's clashes are the deadliest since five days of fighting in July that killed dozens

The death toll in Hong Kong’s worst fire in decades rose to 160 after an additional body was identified, police said yesterday, adding that six people were still listed as missing.

A fire tore through a seven-storey office building in Indonesia’s capital yesterday, killing at least 22 people, police said.

PM Takaichi said 30 people were injured in the quake which triggered tsunami waves up to 70 centimetres (28 inches) high

The two countries have blamed each other for the fresh fighting, which saw Thailand launch air strikes and use tanks against its neighbour on Monday

Exports climbed 5.9 percent year-on-year in November, reversing the slight decline recorded in October

The rest of the dead were Indian citizens, mainly the nightclub's staff and holidaymakers from New Delhi

Both countries accused the other of breaching a ceasefire agreement brokered by Donald Trump

Indian authorities ordered an investigation and offered compensation to victims yesterday after a fire ripped through a nightclub in the western state of Goa, killing 25.

Several tourists were among the dead in the blaze, which broke out at about midnight at a club in Arpora in North Goa district

An overnight exchange of gunfire and shelling at a major Pakistan-Afghanistan border crossing killed four civilians and one soldier, Afghan officials said yesterday, the latest flare-up of fighting between the two countries despite a ceasefire since deadly clashes in October.

Disaster-hit Sri Lanka has unveiled a major compensation package to rebuild homes damaged by a deadly cyclone, even as the island yesterday prepared for further landslides and flooding.