Asia

Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul on Tuesday suspended the issuance of permits to buy firearms and said existing licenses would be reviewed, days after a 14-year-old gunman killed nine people.

As the Korean Peninsula swelters through a heat wave, North Korean state media has touted everything from dog-meat soup to chicken broth as ways to cope, while portraying Kim Jong Un as a leader who endures harsh conditions alongside his people.

]At least one teacher was killed and four other people injured by a student who opened fire at a school in Thailand on Friday before killing himself, authorities said.

Press freedom groups criticized the new guidelines, which come amid deadly protests over a sensitive regional election in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.

Too many leaders still consider nuclear deterrence a realistic approach, said Mayor Kazumi Matsui, whose Japanese city was bombed by the U.S. in an attack that killed 140,000 people.

North Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile toward the waters off its east coast on Thursday, South Korea’s military said, the latest in a series of weapons tests by North Korea this year.

The former prime minister said it was her duty to her people to return voluntarily despite facing a death sentence over a bloody crackdown on protesters in 2024.

North Korea’s Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un, warned on Wednesday that Pyongyang would adopt “additional military options” in response to what she called Japan’s transformation into a military power.

New Trump administration rules banning humanoid robots made in China and other countries have also swept up a product that is already a fixture in American homes: smart vacuums.

The British band Massive Attack said its members were detained by Singapore police and “isolated and separately questioned” after the two performers raised a Palestinian flag at their concert in the city-state last Wednesday.