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A woman trapped beneath the remains of a hotel building for nearly 60 hours after a devastating earthquake struck Myanmar was pulled alive from the rubble on Monday, officials said, in a rare moment of hope for rescue teams scrambling to find survivors…
Social media footage shows water sloshing from rooftop swimming pools in Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, as the powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit Myanmar on Friday. At least 18 people were killed in Bangkok, Thai authorities say, where officials are …
Rescue teams in Thailand and Myanmar continue a desperate search for survivors after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit Myanmar on Friday. The number killed in Myanmar has surpassed 1,600. Social media footage showed extensive damage in Mandalay, Myanmar’s…
A powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake has rocked Myanmar and Thailand, bringing down buildings and prompting Myanmar’s isolated military junta to make a rare request for international aid. Initial footage from Myanmar shows widespread damage to infrastru…
Footage widely shared on Thai social media shows the moment a tower block under construction collapsed in a Bangkok district after the city was rocked by a strong earthquake. Thailand’s National Institute of Emergency Medicine said that at least one pe…
The biggest forest fire on record in South Korea has displaced thousands, charred large areas and killed at least 26 people in the south-eastern province of North Gyeongsang, authorities say. The affected areas have had only half the average rainfall t…
A group ransacked the Habitat comedy club in Mumbai on Sunday night after comedian Kunal Kamra performed a satirical song about local ruling politician Eknath Shinde. Men wearing scarves belonging to Shiv Sena, Shinde’s rightwing party, were seen inte…
Hostages who survived being held hostage by separatist militants in Pakistan on a hijacked train recalled their ‘terrifying’ ordeal. ‘As soon as the explosion happened, armed men stormed the train,’ said Arslan Yousaf, one of those rescued. ‘They had l…
Pakistan’s security services claimed to have rescued about 190 of the 214 hostages the militants said they had taken. Officials said 33 militants and 21 hostages were killed after military and security personnel launched an air and land offensive to ta…
In a series of clips posted by his daughter on Instagram, the former Philippine president asks: ‘What is the law and what is the crime that I committed?’ Duterte was taken into custody at Manila airport after the international criminal court issued a w…
The former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has been arrested on an international criminal court warrant over his so-called war on drugs during which thousands of people were killed. The Philippine president’s office said Duterte was detained at Ma…
Yoon Suk Yeol has been released from a detention centre a day after the Seoul central district court accepted Yoon’s petition to cancel his custody. The impeached president was greeted by more than 50,000 supporters in the capital while a counter-prote…
South Korea’s air force has apologised after one of its fighter jets accidentally bombed Nogok-ri, part of the city of Pocheon, during a training exercise, injuring at least 15 civilians and damaging several buildings including a churchFighter jet acci…
Firefighters are struggling to contain a wildfire in north-east Japan which has been burning for seven days. A number of homes have been burned in a small coastal town near Ofunato city in Iwate prefecture, and thousands of people have been evacuatedLa…
Five 50-metre steel structures supporting a partly built highway bridge in South Korea collapsed one after another in the city of Anseong, killing at least three construction workers and injuring at least seven more people. South Korea’s acting preside…