Three security personnel, including the deputy of a police station, have been killed in "terrorist attacks" in Iran, state media reported Thursday, two days after seven Iranian Revolutionary Guards were killed in an air raid in Syria

Taiwan’s biggest earthquake in at least 25 years killed nine people yesterday and injured more than 900.

A surprise Houthi attack killed 11 fighters loyal to the Yemeni government in the country’s south early yesterday, a spokesperson for the southern forces said, in a rare flareup.

Taiwan said yesterday that 30 Chinese military aircraft were detected around the island in a 24-hour window -- one of the highest daily numbers this year.

At least 13 Maoist insurgents were killed in a clash in central India, police said yesterday, taking the rebel toll in the long-running conflict to 50 this year.

As many as 23 Indian opposition politicians who crossed over to the BJP since the time it came to power in 2014 have got reprieve from federal agencies investigating corruption cases against them, The Indian Express reported yesterday.

The US warned Iran on Tuesday not to retaliate against it for an attack on Iran’s embassy compound in Syria, telling the UN Security Council it had no prior warning of the strike that Tehran has blamed on Washington’s ally Israel.

Russia fired over 3,000 guided aerial bombs, 600 drones and 400 missiles at Ukraine in March alone, President Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday.

India’s Congress leader Rahul Gandhi yesterday filed his nomination papers for the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat in Kerala for the upcoming elections.

The World Bank says the Israel-Hamas war has caused damage of around $18.5 billion to Gaza’s critical infrastructure, according to a new report published Tuesday.

Taiwan's biggest earthquake in at least 25 years killed nine people today, injuring more than 800, while 50 went missing en route to a national park, authorities said, as rescuers used ladders to bring others to safety

At least 13 Maoists were killed in an encounter with Indian security forces in a dense forest in the heartland state of Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district ahead of the parliamentary elections, police said

Donald Trump called immigrants illegally in the United States "animals" and "not human" in a speech in Michigan on Tuesday, resorting to the degrading rhetoric he has employed time and again on the campaign trail

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday Israel mistakenly killed seven people working for the aid charity World Central Kitchen in a Gaza airstrike, and the US and other allies called for explanations amid widespread condemnation

Flights were suspended at the main airport in Japan's southern region of Okinawa on Wednesday due to a tsunami alert triggered by an earthquake in Taiwan, a government official said

A 7.2 magnitude earthquake rocked Taiwan on Wednesday, the strongest tremor to hit the island in at least 25 years, killing four people, injuring dozens and sparking a tsunami warning for southern Japan and the Philippines that was later lifted

An Israel airstrike killed seven aid workers who were unloading food brought by sea to the Gaza Strip.

A fire killed at least 29 people in a 16-storey residential building in Istanbul yesterday, the governor of Turkey’s economic capital said.

Pakistan’s ruling coalition seized a majority in Senate polls yesterday, unofficial results showed, after the election commission delayed the vote in a province controlled by loyalists of jailed ex-premier Imran Khan.

Taiwan said yesterday that soldiers on one of its tiny frontline islands just off China’s mainland were on heightened alert following provocations by Chinese civilian drones.