Seven lower-profile candidates registered yesterday to challenge Maldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih at next month’s elections.

Thailand’s populist Pheu Thai party yesterday announced that it was forming an alliance with the Bhumjaithai party and was open to other parties joining in to form a government nearly 3 months after polls.

Three-quarters of children in South Asia are already facing dangerously high temperatures, the highest level worldwide, as the impact of climate change grows, the United Nations warned Monday.

Niger closed its airspace due to the "threat of intervention" as the junta defied a deadline from the West African bloc ECOWAS to reinstate democratically elected President Mohamed Bazoum or face possible military action

Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni appointed Hun Manet as the country's new leader on Monday, succeeding his father premier Hun Sen who is stepping down after nearly four decades of hardline rule

Former US president Donald Trump said Sunday he will petition to have a different judge oversee his historic criminal trial and for the case to be moved out of Washington

Four Syrian soldiers were killed and four others wounded in Israeli air strikes near the capital Damascus early Monday, state media said, citing a military source

Niger’s capital was calm yesterday, with citizens appearing to pay little heed to the threat of military intervention by West Africa’s regional bloc, as its ultimatum for the country’s coup leaders to reinstate the president expires.

Moscow said yesterday that weekend talks in Saudi Arabia including the US, China and India aiming to establish principles for a peaceful end to Russia’s war in Ukraine were a doomed Western attempt to align Global South behind Kyiv.

The Maldives Supreme Court yesterday confirmed that jailed former president Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom is barred for the country’s September presidential election.

At least 30 migrants are missing following two shipwrecks off the Italian island of Lampedusa, according to survivor testimony, the UN’s migration agency said yesterday.

The Philippines yesterday accused China’s coast guard of blocking and water-cannoning a Philippine military supply boat in the South China Sea, condemning the “excessive and offensive actions” against its vessels.

Russia launched a multi-wave attack on Ukraine with 70 air-assault weapons including cruise and hypersonic missiles as well as Iranian-made drones, Kyiv’s Air Force said yesterday, and at least 10 missiles appear to got through air defences.

The Iraqi government yesterday said it was suspending the popular Telegram messaging application across the country on “national security” grounds, drawing criticism on channels close to pro-Iran factions.

One of Morocco’s worst-ever road accidents left 24 people dead yesterday in the central province of Azilal, officials said.

Prosecutors have asked a US judge to limit information Donald Trump can publicly discuss regarding the latest indictments against him, citing a threatening post by the ex-president that his campaign defended Saturday as "political speech"

At least one man is in a serious condition after a shooting attack on a central street in Tel Aviv yesterday, Israeli police said.

Nasa has succeeded in re-establishing full contact with Voyager 2 by using its highest-power transmitter to send an “interstellar shout” that righted the distant probe’s antenna orientation, the space agency said.

Ukraine carried out a drone strike overnight on a Russian tanker in the Kerch Strait, a day after one of Moscow’s ships was hit in the Black Sea, a Ukrainian security source told AFP yesterday.

Saudi Arabia called on its citizens to quickly leave Lebanese territory and to avoid approaching areas where there have been armed clashes, the Saudi embassy in Lebanon said in a statement posted late on Friday on X, formerly known as Twitter.