Asia

A brutal monsoon season has swept across South and Southeast Asia, killing over 90 people across three countries and displacing hundreds of thousands.

President Donald Trump raised concern about yen weakness during a summit with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said, offering an unusually detailed account of the leaders’ talks on currencies.

President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are meeting at the White House this week. But beneath the surface-level pageantry, experts warn the U.S. is entering the summit in a much weaker position. Here’s why.

A Sri Lankan court convicted 15 men on Tuesday over their involvement in the 2019 Easter bombings that killed 267 people, and sentenced them each to at least 200 years in prison, meaning they will spend the rest of their lives behind bars.

China said Tuesday that it is now requiring permits for exports to the United States, Mexico and Canada of two additional chemicals that can be used to make illegal drugs, expanding controls on shipments to the three countries.

Torrential rains brought by a powerful typhoon lashing Japan‘s Pacific coast caused landslides that killed four people with six missing, public broadcaster NHK said Tuesday.

North Korea said it successfully tested a new weapon showcasing “ultra-modern defense technology” on Sunday, state media reported Tuesday.

A murder trial began Monday for the former husband and in-laws of Hong Kong socialite Abby Choi more than three years after the discovery of parts of her dismembered body at a house shocked the city where violent crime is rare.

Three South Korean military officers were injured Monday in an unexplained explosion while conducting an operation in the western sector of the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas, Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said.

At least one person was killed and four others injured in a shooting at a high school in the southern Philippines on Friday, the provincial governor said.