Asia / Pacific

Taiwan detected six Chinese balloons off the island, the defence ministry said Friday, as Beijing maintains military pressure to push its claim of sovereignty. The six balloons were spotted in…

South Korea’s defence and trade ministries said Thursday they had blocked DeepSeek’s access to work computers, following a request from the country’s data watchdog for the Chinese AI startup to…

A Frenchman reprieved after 18 years on death row in Indonesia for alleged drug offences landed back in France on Wednesday, an airport source said. Serge Atlaoui, 61, is to…

Afghanistan‘s Taliban authorities raided well-known women‘s radio station Radio Begum on Tuesday, arresting two employees, the broadcaster said, calling for the speedy release of its staff. The Taliban information ministry…

Serge Atlaoui, 61, was driven from Salemba prison in Jakarta to the city’s main airport for a handover to French police officers before boarding a commercial flight to Paris, due…

Cambodia‘s decades-long effort to clear unexploded munitions has had to partially suspend operations after the United States suddenly halted funding, a minister said Friday, calling on Washington to reverse the…

A stampede at the world’s largest religious gathering in India killed at least 15 people with many more injured, a doctor at the Kumbh Mela festival told AFP Wednesday. Deadly…

Bird feathers and bloodstains were found in both engines of the Jeju Air plane that crashed in December, according to a preliminary investigation released Monday. The Boeing 737-800 was flying…

A high-profile gay couple married in Thailand on Thursday as the kingdom’s same-sex marriage law went into effect, an AFP journalist saw, among the first of hundreds expected to do…

South Korea‘s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol appeared at the Constitutional Court for the first time Tuesday, facing a possible grilling by judges who will decide whether to remove him…