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Residents of hundreds of homes in Iwate, northern Japan, have been ordered to evacuate after wildfires broke out on Wednesday. Fires burned more than 150 hectares of forest and damaged seven buildings in the rural area, Japan’s chief cabinet secretary …
At least one person was killed by falling rubble in the Manado area when part of a building used by the local sport authority collapsed. The US tsunami warning system initially alerted the area to the risk of hazardous tsunami waves, before confirming …
An airstrike hit a drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul on Tuesday, killing hundreds. Afghan officials blamed Pakistan for the attack, while Islamabad has denied the accusation. The alleged attack came hours after Afghan officials said the two sides h…
A drone has struck the only airport in Nakhchivan, an Azerbaijani exclave bordering Iran. A second fell close to a school in a nearby village, Azerbaijan’s defence ministry said. The strike would be the first Iranian attack on a Caucasus state since th…
The US has carried out a submarine torpedo strike that sank an Iranian warship near the south coast of Sri Lanka, according to the US secretary of defence. Pete Hegseth confirmed the US was behind the deadly strike on an Iranian frigate that killed mor…
Pakistani security sources released a video showing what they say are airstrikes on Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul in the latest strike in a cycle of retaliatory attacks between the two countries.Afghanistan launched a cross-border attack on Pakistan o…
South Korea’s spy agency has told lawmakers it believes the teenage daughter of the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-un, is close to being designated as the country’s future leader as Kim moves to extend the family dynasty to a fourth generation. Lawmak…
More than a dozen people died and more than 60 are missing after a fire ravaged through the Gul Plaza mall in Karachi on Saturday. Families gathered outside the shopping centre hoping to find relatives as rescuers combed through the collapsed structure…
More than a dozen people died and more than 60 are missing after a fire ravaged through the Gul Plaza mall in Karachi on Saturday. Families gathered outside the shopping centre hoping to find relatives as rescuers combed through the collapsed structure…
At least 22 people have been killed and scores injured in Thailand after a crane collapsed on to a passenger train, derailing it on Wednesday, officials said.Footage from the scene shows the crane’s broken structure on concrete pillars and smoke risin…
The head of the sushi restaurant chain Sushizanmai bid 510.3m yen (£2.4m) for a single bluefin tuna, the highest price ever paid at the annual New Year auction at Tokyo’s Toyosu fish market. ‘I hope the economy will get better this year. The Takaichi a…
Graham Hadibi-Williams says current debate on reparations is one of theory rather than justice. Plus Abhishek Kalyankar on India’s colonial experienceKenneth Mohammed’s article rightly highlights the growing moral case for reparations, but like many pi…
The town of Osaki has been making the headlines as a bear hotspot as Japan reels from a year of record ursine encounters and deaths. The Guardian’s Justin McCurry visited Naruko Onsen hot springs in the north-eastern town, equipped with bells and whist…
At least four people were killed in Taipei on Friday evening, after a mass stabbing around the city’s central station. Reports say the suspect is among the dead after he fell from a building during a police chase through a busy shopping district. The s…
CCTV footage showed tremors in cities across north-eastern Japan on Monday after a powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake. Orders were given for about 90,000 residents to leave their homes but tsunami warnings were later downgraded to advisor…