Daily Asia briefing

Donors exceed funding target at Berlin conference but prospects for ceasefire remain distantMore than £1bn (€1.15bn) has been pledged for war-ravaged Sudan at a conference in Berlin, eclipsing the funding target organise...

China has denied claims this month by U.S. intelligence that it might have shipped arms to Iran. In recent years, China has supported Iran with dual-use parts.

Fighting continued in southern Lebanon between Israel and Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants, even as Israeli and Lebanese diplomats met in Washington. The war in Lebanon has threatened to undermine the U.S.-Iran cease-f...

Oleksiy Klochkovsky has driven mail and parcels around the front line in Ukraine for four years. He keeps one ear tuned for danger from above.

British aid to double as 19m people face acute hunger, but summit unlikely to end conflict amid Saudi-UAE tensions The British foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, will urge Sudan’s warring parties to “cease bloodshed” duri...

Military has described devastating attack that killed up to 200 people, many of them civilians, as a ‘precision airstrike’Survivors and observers have questioned the Nigerian military’s rationale for a devastating airstr...

The diplomacy came as the White House dismissed reports that President Trump wanted to extend the cease-fire, while still expressing optimism that talks could yield an agreement.

Catholicism is growing fast on the continent, yet Africans play a comparatively small role in church leadership. Cameroon, where Leo XIV arrived on Wednesday, shows the disparity.

Appointment of Roelf Meyer seen as attempt to improve relations amid false US accusations of ‘white genocide’South Africa has appointed a former apartheid government chief negotiator during the talks that ended white rul...

For years, Peter Magyar was a loyal ally of Viktor Orban, the far-right Hungarian leader. Then he changed sides — and defeated his former boss in a landslide victory on Sunday. Does he represent real change?

Lifestyle influencer died while on vacation with boyfriend, who local officials say has since had his passport ‘withheld’Ashly Robinson, a US lifestyle influencer, died last week while on vacation in the Tanzanian island...

More than 2,200 ants were found in Zhang Kequn’s luggage at Nairobi airport, with baggage destined for ChinaA Chinese national has been sentenced to a year in prison and fined by a Nairobi court for attempting to smuggle...

Struggle for justice symbolises limitations of Truth and Reconciliation Commission, whose hearings began 30 years agoDarkness had fallen on 27 June 1985 when Fort Calata, Matthew Goniwe, Sicelo Mhlauli and Sparrow Mkonto...

Migrant workers in the United Arab Emirates, whose hospitality industry has been hit hard by the war with Iran, are facing furloughs, pay cuts and even repatriation.