Daily Asia briefing

Hezbollah fired a barrage of rockets at northern Israel, damaging a 1,500-year-old Byzantine church in Nahariya.

The ​blockade of the ‌strait by Tehran since the start of the Iran war has caused the worst disruption to global energy supplies in history

A senior Lebanese official earlier told the BBC that Lebanon would only take part in talks if a ceasefire was in place.

Police said the suspect targeted Altman's San Francisco residence before dawn and fled the scene on foot.

A senior Iranian delegation has arrived in Islamabad for talks with US officials.

Islamabad has deployed more than 10,000 military and police personnel as US and Iranian delegations arrive.

"We're going to open up the gulf with or without them...or the strait as they call it. I think it's going to go pretty quickly, and if it doesn't, we'll be able to finish it off," U.S. President Donald Trump told reporte...

Washington, Moscow, Kyiv and Brussels will be eagerly awaiting the outcome of the election.

The Hindu International is tracking Diplomacy & Power developments tied to Lebanon says first contact with Israel held ahead of U.S.-brokered talks.

Formerly the vice president under Biden, Harris mused to Al Sharpton that she knows 'what it requires' to be president.

Thakur was elected as a Member of Parliament from the Shram Sanskriti Party in the March 5 election.

Prince Harry left the charity last year in an acrimonious dispute over how Sentebale was being managed.

The judges intensely questioned lawyers for both the plaintiffs and the government about what certain terms mean, including what precisely the term “balance-of-payments deficits” meant when it was used in the Trade Act o...

The Palestinian Presidency's office condemned the plan as a "flagrant violation of international ⁠law".

The case is to overturn the temporary tariffs that Trump imposed after the Supreme Court struck down his earlier ones.

Don't miss BINI make history as the first homegrown Filipino act to perform at the major music festival!

Massive fuel price hikes are hurting ordinary Filipinos, small businesses, and various industries

Even if the war ended today, relief would not be immediate. Expect elevated fuel and food prices well into the second half of the year.

Today’s headlines: Marcos, Gloria Arroyo, Biden & Trump’s sons

The exhibition, drawn from some 4,000 items once owned by the queen, explores how fashion became one of her most powerful tools of communication as she evolved from a young princess into Britain's longest-reigning monarc...

Missile and drone barrages have damaged swaths of Saudi Arabia's vast energy infrastructure, including refineries, oil fields deep in the desert and petrochemical plants.

The West Asia war and Iran’s chokehold of the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway through which a fifth of global oil passes, had halted shipping and sent global oil prices soaring

The prosecution's case against Zaldy Co builds on the theory that he is the beneficial owner of Sunwest, and is a contractor allegedly involved in corruption

The rise in energy prices has hit Asia particularly hard as many nations are heavily reliant on Gulf oil.

An African AIDS charity co-founded by Britain's Prince Harry said on Friday it had launched legal proceedings against him for "reputational harm", as the royal "categorically" rejected the defamation claims.

A spokesperson for Prince Harry said he "categorically" rejects the "offensive and damaging" libel claim.

A person was arrested by San Francisco police for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home and for making threats outside the artificial intelligence startup's headquarters.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) said a Sudanese man was detained on suspicion of 'endangering another'.

The male wolf, named Neukgu, escaped a zoo in the central city of Daejeon on Wednesday, officials said.

Lava shot into the air, illuminating the night sky, as Hawaii’s Kīlauea volcano erupted.

The movie, now streaming on Netflix, defied current trends in Indian cinema to tell the true story of a friendship between a Muslim and a Hindu Dalit. Martin Scorsese was secretly involved.

Slot says he feels 'complete support' despite mounting pressure after a disastrous season.

Malacañang debunks claims about Marcos' supposed illness, adding that the President remains in good health

Israel's distrust of Pakistan's role in any mediation effort has been articulated previously. Reuven Azar, Israel's envoy to India, had recently told NDTV that Israel does not consider Pakistan a credible intermediary in...

The office of Cagayan de Oro representative Lordan Suan debunks the viral quote card of the lawmaker supposedly saying OFWs who joined 'zero remittance week' do not deserve to be called heroes

The PNP says 3 suspects are now facing a case for alleged violation of the Anti-Hazing Act of 2018