Asia Pacific

The South Korean marines have been despatched in after monsoon rains flooded a rural part of the nation’s heartland final July. They have been on the lookout for lacking residents in waist-high floodwaters, however they weren’t carrying life jackets. Nor did they’ve buoys or security tubes. When the bottom gave approach, 5 of them have […] More

New Delhi recorded its highest temperature ever measured on Wednesday — 126 levels Fahrenheit, or 52.3 levels Celsius — leaving residents of the Indian capital sweltering in a warmth wave that has saved temperatures in a number of Indian states properly above 110 levels for weeks. In New Delhi, the place strolling out of the […] More

It was a protracted and horrible six months with out large pandas, Washington’s most well-known image of literal comfortable diplomacy, however this insufferable (sorry) drought will quickly be over. The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute introduced on Wednesday that two new fuzzy diplomats will quickly be on their approach to the United States […] More

North Korea has resumed an uncommon operation to indicate anger at South Korea: dumping trash from the sky internationally’s most closely armed border. Between Tuesday night time and Wednesday, the South Korean navy stated that it discovered 260 balloons drifting throughout the Demilitarized Zone, the buffer between the 2 Koreas. Soon, residents throughout South Korea, […] More

Responding to China’s surging exports and in depth investments in new factories, the International Monetary Fund made sizable will increase on Wednesday in how a lot it believes China’s economic system will develop this yr and subsequent. The I.M.F. now estimates that China will develop 5 % this yr and 4.5 % in 2025. That […] More

The youthful technology in Japan has continuously referred to as out their elders for his or her informal sexism, extreme work expectations and unwillingness to surrender energy. But a shock tv hit has folks speaking about whether or not the fogeys may need gotten just a few issues proper, particularly as some in Japan — […] More

The prosecution and protection made their closing arguments to the jury yesterday within the first felony prosecution of an American president. Here are dwell updates. The prosecutor, Joshua Steinglass, stated Donald Trump engaged in a fraud in opposition to the American folks on the eve of the 2016 election by silencing a porn star’s account […] More

One current morning, Roop Rekha Verma, an 80-year-old peace activist and former college chief, walked by means of a north Indian neighborhood liable to sectarian strife and parked herself close to a tea store. From her sling bag, she pulled out a bundle of pamphlets bearing messages of non secular tolerance and mutual coexistence and […] More

Nearly 5 days after a landslide devastated a distant part of Papua New Guinea, officers within the Pacific Island nation have begun evacuating residents, as a result of the realm stays unsafe. “Rocks are nonetheless transferring, the mountain remains to be crumbling, and we’re seeing rock and particles pile up on what’s already occurred,” Sandis […] More

Opposition lawmakers in Taiwan pushed by means of measures on Tuesday that might problem the powers of the brand new president, Lai Ching-te, defying tens of 1000’s of his supporters who poured into the streets in latest days in protest. The laws proposed by Mr. Lai’s opponents gained passage solely just a little over per […] More

At least 23 individuals had been killed and tens of millions had been left with out energy after Cyclone Remal, the primary tropical storm of the season, hit Bangladesh and neighboring jap India on Sunday. Remal, which had measured winds of over 70 miles per hour, left a path of destruction, uprooting timber and damaging […] More

Doing enterprise in Hong Kong more and more comes with a brand new danger: the political value of upsetting Beijing. Chinese shoppers not too long ago dropped one large Chicago legislation agency after it recused itself from a politically delicate case. A former Wall Street banker was muzzled for writing a “Hong Kong is dead” […] More