A military transport plane with 128 people on board, mostly soldiers, crashed shortly after taking off Monday (March 23, 2026) in Puerto Leguizamo, Colombia, killing at least 66 people and leaving…
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Iran launched multiple waves of missiles at Israel, the Israeli military said, after U.S. President Donald Trump postponed a threat to bomb the Islamic Republic’s power grid because of what he…
A strong preliminary magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck near Tonga in the South Pacific Ocean on Tuesday, prompting coastal evacuations but no wider tsunami warnings. The United States Geological Survey…
Global air travel remains severely disrupted after the war in Iran forced the closure of major West Asian hubs, including Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi, stranding tens of thousands of passengers.
In the noisy, crowded landscape of Nepali politics, the meteoric rise of Prime Minister-designate Balendra Shah and his party, the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), represents a rare political anomaly.
In September 2025, a government ban on social media in Nepal did not silence dissent; it sparked a political earthquake.
The United States and Israel launched an attack on Saturday (February 28, 2026) on Iran, plunging West Asia into a new conflict that U.S.
Jurors resume deliberations on Tuesday in a landmark U.S. social media trial after signaling that they were having trouble agreeing when it comes to one of the two defendants, Meta and YouTube. "The…
China has lodged a strong protest and made representations with the Japanese after what it described as a “forceful break-in” at its embassy in Tokyo, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Tuesday…
An influential former military general who played a key role in 2007 in installing an army-backed interim government replacing a caretaker one, which was presumed to be inclined to the BNP, now…
Iranian police arrested 466 people accused of online activities aimed at undermining national security, state media reported on Tuesday (March 24, 2026), in one of the biggest security sweeps since…
U.S. President Donald Trump said that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was the “first one” to suggest attacking Iran when he discussed the "problem in the Middle East" with his close aides. Speaking at…
This liveblog is now closed. Click here for the latest updates U.S. President Donald Trump extended his deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz on Monday (March 23, 2026), saying the U.S.
The Lebanon government on Tuesday (March 24, 2026) ordered Iran's Ambassador to leave country. The Foreign Ministry said Tehran's diplomatic representative in the tiny war-torn country has to leave…
Israel’s military will occupy southern Lebanon up to the Litani River, defence minister Israel Katz said on Tuesday, the first time Israel has clearly spelled out its intent to seize swathes of…
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Tuesday (March 24, 2026) declared a state of national energy emergency in response to the West Asia conflict and what he called an “imminent danger” posed…
Afghan authorities on Tuesday (March 24, 2026)released American academic Dennis Coyle after holding him for over a year, with Afghanistan's Taliban-run foreign ministry saying the release came on the…
Airstrikes battered Iran's capital and Iranian missiles and drones targeted Israel's Tel Aviv and sites across the West Asia on Tuesday (March 24, 2026), even as President Donald Trump said the…
Mohhammad Baqer Zolqadr, a veteran commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), has been appointed as the new Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council. Mr.