Asia

The leaders of China, Russia and India gathered with other heads of state in Kyrgyzstan for the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a group billed as a counterweight to U.S. global influence.

Rajendra Dawadi’s story has emerged as a striking example of foresight and courage in the aftermath of flash floods that killed almost 1,000 people and left thousands of others missing.

The company has faced tariff and duty changes in the U.S. and Europe, along with intense scrutiny of its business practices that hampered its attempts to list in New York and London.

The death toll in last week’s devastating flooding in Nepal has risen to 903 people, officials said Monday, as the number of those listed as missing nearly doubled to 4,247.

Many of the 90 Americans still missing since Wednesday were on a trek to Mount Kailash, which is in Tibet and revered by Hindus and Buddhists.

A massive chunk of ice and rock dozens of times larger than the Empire State Building broke off a mountaintop and triggered the catastrophic flooding that killed hundreds and left more than a thousand missing in Nepal and Tibet, geologists said Thursday.

The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier will make a stop in Thailand after its grueling deployment in the Middle East, Thai officials said Wednesday.

Three Americans are among hundreds of people missing after torrential floods swept through the Himalayan border areas of Nepal and China’s Tibet.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung called for greater police accountability after public outrage over the handling of a series of missing-person cases on Jeju island.

Gao Zhen, who is based in the U.S., was arrested while visiting family in China in August 2024 and charged over works that authorities deemed insulting to revolutionary figures.