The deadly 7.8 earthquake that struck that struck southeast Turkey and northern Syria has hit hard in areas that house millions of war-displaced Syrians.

Concerns about the condition of two hunger strikers in Thailand seeking political and judicial reforms have heightened as the hospital where the two women are being kept urgently summoned their parents.

Hong Kong’s top court has ruled that full sex reassignment surgery should not be a prerequisite for transgender people to have their gender changed on their official identity cards.

Pakistani officials say a bombing killed a soldier and wounded 11 others, mostly civilians, in southwestern Pakistan.

Buddhist abbot Hsing Yun, who established a thriving religious community in southern Taiwan and built universities overseas, has died.

The Israeli military says several Palestinian gunmen have been killed in a gun battle that broke out in a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank.

Some of Hong Kong’s best-known pro-democracy activists have gone on trial in the biggest prosecution yet under a law imposed by China’s ruling Communist Party to crush dissent.

A group of Swiss lawmakers has met with Taiwan’s president and said their government wants to deepen political relations.

An Indigenous senator in Australia has quit the minor Greens party in a disagreement over a referendum to be held this year that would create an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.

India is preparing to relaunch its INS Vikramaditya aircraft carrier after a major refit, a critical step toward fulfilling its plan to deploy two carrier battle groups as it seeks to strengthen its regional maritime power to counter China’s increasing…