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Abdul Hafeez Khoso, one of 39 Pakistani farmers pursuing a climate lawsuit against German firms, chants "polluters have to pay" with schoolchildren during an awareness event in Jacobabad in Pakistan's Sindh province on July 29.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Nov 11, 2026
Pakistani farmers in long fight to make German firms pay for flood damage
The litigation argues the firms’ emissions contributed to climate change and turbo-charged rain that wiped out farmers’ crops, livestock and homes.
An EVA Air flight lands at Taoyuan International Airport in Taiwan.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 29, 2026
Taiwan says Pakistan briefly closed airspace to Taiwanese flights
The island suspects China of being behind the unprecedented move.
Pakistani (left) and Indian border security soldiers take part in the now-famous daily parade at the Attari-Wagah border crossing, the primary international land route between the two nations. The elaborate ceremony has been held since 1959.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 26, 2026
The new India-Pakistan ‘cold war’
India will return to the negotiating table only after Pakistan dismantles, comprehensively and verifiably, its state-supported terrorist networks.
A rescuer carries a child during a search operation after a roof collapsed at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 16, 2026
34 children and a teacher killed in Pakistan school roof collapse
Rescue workers spent hours pulling children from the rubble of the privately run Al-Khair Education Center.
Indian supporters display their flags before the women's gold medal cricket match between India and Sri Lanka during the 2026 Asian Games at Korogi Athletic Park in Nisshin, Aichi Prefecture, on Sept. 22, 2026.
Asian Games / Cricket
Oct 2, 2026
India to clash with Pakistan as Eala suffers Asian Games heartbreak
Neighbors India and Pakistan only meet in international tournaments because of political tensions and players have recently refused to shake hands.
A woman walks near an anti-U.S. mural in Tehran on Sept. 9. The on?again?off?again ceasefire shows how coercive militarism has failed to produce the results the Trump administration wanted. ?
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 23, 2026
Might makes right will end Pax Americana
Far from bolstering U.S. dominance, Donald Trump’s embrace of coercive militarism has eroded it.
With around 74% of children ages 12 to 17 in Pakistan estimated by UNICEF to be internet users, concerns over online safety are growing as their access to digital platforms expands.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 21, 2026
‘I live in fear’: 1.5 million Pakistani children sexually exploited online
In Muslim-majority Pakistan, 71% of victims did not tell anyone because of stigma, shame and fear, according to a UNICEF report.
An Indian Navy ship. Both India and Pakistan said they had summoned each other’s charge d’affaires over a collision between warships from the two countries.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 17, 2026
Indian and Pakistani warships collide at sea, adding to tensions
Both countries said they had summoned each other’s charge d’affaires.
Smoke rises following a strike during fighting between Houthis and Saudi-backed forces at a location given as Al Jawf, Yemen, in this image released on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Sep 12, 2026
Pakistan faces pressure to pick a side as Saudi tensions with Houthis escalate
Fighting between Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi movement and Saudi forces is increasingly testing how long Pakistan can hold both positions at once.
Chief of Defence Forces of Pakistan, Field Marshal Asim Munir (left), meets with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in Tehran on Aug. 24.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 10, 2026
Pakistan warns Iran to rein in Houthis as Riyadh strikes back
The Houthis struck an airbase in Khamis Mushait, Saudi Arabia, and oil infrastructure in nearby cities, wounding 73 people.
Security personnel fortify a police post with Ukraine-style mesh barriers as a new line of defense against militant drone and aerial attacks at Bara in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Aug. 4.
WORLD
Sep 9, 2026
Pakistan police counter drone attacks with Ukraine-style nets
Lessons from the war in Ukraine are reverberating in Pakistan, where security forces are improvising new defenses against Islamist insurgents.
Ambulances are parked outside a mortuary following a deadly fire at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences hospital in Islamabad on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 26, 2026
‘Black smoke’ chokes Pakistan maternity ward as hospital fire kills 14 infants
The dawn fire broke out on the third floor of the Mother and Child Health Ward at the capital’s premier public hospital, the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi meets with Pakistan's Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi in Tehran on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 12, 2026
Pakistan says deal is close even as Iran and U.S. harden stances
While Tehran and Oman may be nearing an agreement, it remains unclear how that would affect the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif pose after signing a joint defense agreement in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 10, 2026
Turkey says Mecca defense pact could be widened to include Egypt
Several countries are interested in joining the trilateral security agreement that was signed in Mecca on Friday, Turkey’s foreign minister said.
A satellite image shows smoke rising from an oil facility in Jazan province, Saudi Arabia, on July 26. On Sunday Iran-aligned Houthis claimed to have attacked Saudi Aramco's Jazan refinery, two days after the kingdom signed a defense pact with Turkey and Pakistan in response to growing regional instability from the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.
WORLD
Aug 10, 2026
Yemen’s Houthis attack Saudi refinery after kingdom signs defense pact
The alliance with Sunni Muslim U.S. allies, Turkey and Pakistan, stipulates that an attack against one would ?be regarded as an attack on all.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (left), Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (center) and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif chat after signing a joint defense agreement in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on Friday.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Aug 9, 2026
What to expect from the new Saudi-Turkey-Pakistan deal
The alliance binds three Sunni powers — all allies of the United States — with a NATO-style clause that considers any attack on one country as an attack on all.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (left), Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (center) and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif meet in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on Friday.
WORLD
Aug 8, 2026
Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan sign defense pact amid regional war
Riyadh is looking to strengthen its security ties against the backdrop of war between the U.S. and Iran, which has drawn in surrounding nations and disrupted shipping.
A policeman stands guard as women wait to cast their ballots at a polling station during the second phase of elections for the local legislative assembly in Muzaffarabad, Pakistan-administered Kashmir, on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 5, 2026
Deadly protests overshadow Pakistan’s elections in Kashmir
Violent clashes between protesters and security forces have underscored the region’s fragile security situation.
Vendors prepare shoes for sale at a market in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on April 24, 2019.
BUSINESS
Aug 4, 2026
Asia’s energy-starved nations go dark as Hormuz tensions drag on
The cost of gasoline in parts of the region spiked after U.S. strikes on Iran in disrupted energy supplies.
An employee works on a rail component inside a manufacturing unit of Titagarh Rail Systems in Uttarpara, India, in June last year.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 3, 2026
India plans $5 billion border rail upgrade in strategic push
The spending — set to unfold over the next 18 to 24 months — will help build new tracks, platforms and strengthen networks.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
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‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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