Asia

Attackers dressed as ordinary civilians entered hospitals, schools, banks and markets Saturday before opening fire, Pakistani officials said.

In President Xi Jinping’s years-long corruption purge, the defense ministry announced it was investigating the nation's top general.

The ruling followed an audit by Panama’s comptroller that alleged irregularities in the 25-year extension of the concession granted to a subsidiary of Hong Kong’s CK Hutchison Holdings.

The agency added that it did not recommend travel or trade curbs after two infections of the deadly virus were reported by the South Asian nation.

The U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization warned in a report that 17.4 million people are projected to face acute food insecurity in 2026.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is the latest in a series of Western leaders to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Scam parks have become an industrial-scale business in Southeast Asia, especially Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos, where a mix of trafficked and willing labor has carried out digital scams on victims around the world.

A judge ruled for Guan Heng, who feared persecution in China after secretly filming detention facilities in Xinjiang, in a rare defeat for the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

There were no reported cases of the virus outside India, but several Asian countries introduced or reinforced screening measures at airports as a precaution.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the clock to 85 seconds before midnight, the theoretical point of annihilation.

The number of pets has exploded in China, where officials trying to increase the birth rate are facing resistance from young people.