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Four killed battling Indonesia fires as toxic haze cloaks region

Four people died on Indonesia’s Java island fighting the blazes that have sent toxic smoke across southeast Asia, closed schools and fuelled a surge of respiratory complaints, authorities said Friday. The impact of the months-long fires has also prompted Singapore’s leader to vow legal action against any companies responsible for the blazes that have made […]

China tells Trump’s press secretary to visit ‘more often’ after toilet comments

Beijing told the White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia on Friday to visit China “more often”, after she said the country lacked “proper toilets” less than a week into her new post. After years of intense rivalry between the United States and China over globally challenging issues from trade and technology to Taiwan and human […]

Thai farmers, fishermen challenge IMF, World Bank at Bangkok rally

Thai farmers, fishermen and workers marched through Bangkok Friday as global finance and business leaders gathered for IMF and World Bank meetings, demanding a say in policies shaping their livelihoods. Hundreds of protesters, many wearing straw hats and colourful scarves, had hoped to reach the main conference centre but were stopped by a line of […]

Asian stocks rise as tech bounces from rout, Warsh upbeat on AI

Most Asian markets bounced on Friday after the previous day’s tech rout fuelled by concerns over the AI boom, which Federal Reserve boss Kevin Warsh said offered huge benefits to the global economy. Seoul and Tokyo enjoyed healthy gains in early exchanges boosted by chipmakers SK hynix and Kioxia, after having been pummelled on Thursday […]

In Malaysia, frustration grows over Indonesia haze

Closed schools, shuttered sports centres and mass mask handouts. Indonesian wildfire haze has caused a regional pollution crisis and prompted growing frustration in neighbours, including Malaysia.”You need to treat them as an outcast in the region,” Malaysian parliamentarian Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman railed this week talking about the Indonesian fires. His comments go much […]

Families of children killed in Pakistan school roof collapse demand justice

The families of children killed in a roof collapse at a school in northwest Pakistan called for “justice” on Friday, the day after more than 30 pupils and a teacher were crushed to death. A woman teacher and 32 students, mostly younger than 14, died in the building collapse in the city of Peshawar on […]

Why India’s voter revision drive has stoked fear and anger

India’s sweeping overhaul of electoral rolls has triggered a political firestorm, with opposition parties accusing the Election Commission of putting millions at risk of disenfranchisement. The Special Intensive Revision (SIR), launched in June 2025, aims to purge electoral rolls of duplicate, deceased and otherwise ineligible voters. Critics, however, say the exercise has shifted the burden of […]

India closes down New Delhi park ahead of ‘cockroach’ movement rally

Authorities closed a central New Delhi park Friday before a fresh protest seeking the removal of India’s election chief over a voter-roll revision that critics say has disenfranchised millions. Organised by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), the campaign has become the focal point of opposition anger over allegations that the revised rolls favour Prime Minister […]

Shooter kills teacher, three children at Oregon elementary school

A teenager shot and killed three children and a teacher on Thursday at an elementary school in the US state of Oregon, police said, adding the assailant was later killed by an armed bystander who pursued him into the building. Officers rushed to Silver Rail Elementary in Bend, a city of about 100,000 in the […]