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Police are inspecting a large iron ball that washed up on a beach in Japan, but authorities have said they do not know what it is – only that it is not about to explode. Police began inspecting the ball, which is orangey-brown with what appear to be da…
Vladimir Putin has met China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, to discuss cooperation between Beijing and Moscow. The Russian president also told Wang he was looking forward to a visit to Moscow by his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, and to a deepeni…
Pyongyang announced the launch of two ballistic missiles, two days after firing an intercontinental ballistic missile into the sea off Japan’s west coast. The move prompted joint military exercises by the US and South Korea, with Japan’s government con…
China’s most senior diplomat Wang Yi described the shooting down of a balloon by the US as ‘absurd’ and ‘bordering on hysteria’, as well as an abuse of the use of force. Speaking at the Munich security conference, Wang said: ‘It does not show the US is…
At least three people were killed and a further 18 injured after members of the proscribed Pakistani Taliban (TTP), launched an attack on Karachi’s police HQ. Karachi is Pakistan’s main commercial hub, with a population of close to 20 million people. G…
Indian tax officers searched the BBC’s offices in Delhi and Mumbai on Tuesday, the broadcaster said, weeks after the government blocked a documentary critical of Narendra Modi’s role in the 2002 Gujarat riots. While the search was underway, people…
Footage shows a suspected Chinese spy balloon being shot down over the Carolina coast. Two US fighter jets circled the balloon before launching an air missile to destroy it. Beijing claimed it was a weather observation airship that had been blown off c…
China has called for calm amid a growing diplomatic row with the US over suspected spy balloons, adding that Beijing was ‘verifying’ the reports. It comes after the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, indefinitely postponed a planned visit to B…
An explosion at a mosque in the north-western Pakistan city of Peshawar has left dozens dead and more than 100 wounded. The suicide attack occurred as more than 200 people were praying, including police officers from nearby offices. Emergency services …
Weather authorities in Japan and the Korean peninsula have issued warnings over freezing temperatures and gales that have killed at least one person and left thousands of people stranded. Severe cold weather has caused havoc across the region…
Philippine Nobel laureate Maria Ressa and her news site Rappler were acquitted by a court of tax evasion charges. ‘This acquittal … is not just for Rappler, it is for every Filipino who has ever been unjustly accused,’ Ressa told reporters …
At least 68 people were killed when an aircraft crashed in Nepal on Sunday, an army spokesperson said, as hundreds of rescue workers scoured the hillside crash site. The wreckage was on fire and rescue workers were trying to put out the blaze…
At least 40 people were killed when an aircraft crashed in Nepal on Sunday, a Nepal army spokesperson said, as hundreds of rescue workers scoured the hillside crash site.The wreckage was on fire and rescue workers were trying to put out the b…
The Russian president has said he expects his Chinese counterpart to make a state visit to Russia next spring, in what would be a public show of solidarity from Beijing amid Russia’s flailing military campaign in Ukraine.In introductory remarks from a …
At least 10 people have died and dozens have been injured in a fire at a venue near the border between Cambodia and Thailand. Hundreds of rescue workers from both countries struggled to contain the blaze that reportedly started on the third floor of th…