Asia

Myanmar’s detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with the International Committee of the Red Cross’ representative in the capital on Monday, the military-backed government said.

More than two dozen other people were wounded in the attack in the northwestern town of Kabal, where protesters demanding peace had gathered near a police station.

The U.S. dollar weakened sharply Monday against the Japanese yen after U.S.

SURABAYA, Indonesia — An Indonesian ferry carrying 271 people caught fire in waters off the main island of Java on Sunday, leaving at least five people dead and dozens missing as rescuers and passing vessels evacuated hundreds from the burning ship, officials said.

Tuesday’s earthquake in Japan was one of the country’s deadliest in years, killing at least 34 people in the southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto.

Led by a renowned Nepal-born mountaineer, the climbers are missing after an avalanche struck Broad Peak in northern Pakistan, one of the world’s highest mountains.

The blast on the outskirts of the Baluchistan provincial capital, Quetta, appeared to have been triggered by a buildup of methane gas, officials said.

China, the world’s largest coal consumer, generated less than 50% of its electricity from the fossil fuel in the six months to June, marking a first for the country which has been promoting the use of renewable energy, officials said.

Rural communities in southwestern Japan were struggling to get their lives back to normal Thursday, two days after a powerful earthquake set off an explosion at a mall, toppled a factory chimney and flattened homes, killing at least 23 people.

At least 13 people have been killed in southwestern Japan after a magnitude-7.1 earthquake, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Wednesday, as rescuers searched for survivors of collapses at a shopping mall and a paper mill.