Daily Asia briefing

Once a committed U.S. ally, Georgia has quietly aligned with Iran, raising concerns about IRGC influence and sanctions evasion, a new report claims.

Matteo Brandimarti was playing in a jacuzzi at the upscale Duca di Montefeltro Hotel in Pennabilli on Easter Sunday when his leg got sucked into a filter of the tub.

Hezbollah on Friday responded by firing rockets into northern Israel, with a concentrated attack at the Ashdod naval base.

"The ceasefire is between Israel, Iran and the US," she said. "It is not between the Iranian people and the Islamic regime," one Iranian dissident warned to The Post.

"All the good stuff is coming back with us.''

"China is continuously and persistently expanding its military capabilities, and the military threat it poses to us is becoming increasingly severe," Taiwan Defense Minister Wellington Koo told lawmakers on Thursday.

Xi Jinping met KMT leader Cheng Li-wun in Beijing as Taiwan's opposition blocks a $40 billion defense budget amid U.S. pressure to approve it.

“Iran is doing a very poor job, dishonorable some would say, of allowing oil to go through the Strait of Hormuz,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Thursday.

Russia deployed three submarines to spy on the UK's critical undersea pipelines in the northern Atlantic, British officials revealed on Thursday.

The passenger, who is understood to be a Chinese national, allegedly tapped on one of the female cabin crew’s bottoms as the aircraft prepared for departure for Beijing Daxing International Airport.

"The problem of anti-Jewish bias, and even abuse of Jewish and pro-Israel students, is long-standing at Columbia," Rep. Elise Stefanik writes in her upcoming book, "Poisoned Ivies."