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A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian crashed on Sunday while navigating mountainous terrain in heavy fog, according to an Iranian official. The crash occurred …

On Tuesday, TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance initiated a legal challenge against the United States, contesting a law that mandates the sale of the app or faces a …

Two explosions killed nearly 100 people and wounded scores at a ceremony in Iran on Wednesday to commemorate commander Qassem Soleimani who was killed by a U.S. drone in 2020, …

Fifty couples married Monday in a joint ceremony in the Afghan capital — a growing practice to reduce the astronomical cost of traditional weddings in the impoverished country. The couples …

China’s capital Beijing has broken its record for hours of sub-zero temperatures in December dating back to 1951, after a cold wave swept swathes of the country and brought blizzards …

Taiwan reported Chinese warplanes and warships around the island on Saturday, including aircraft crossing the sensitive median line of the Taiwan Strait, as Beijing continues military activities with three weeks …

Rescuers in remote villages of northwest China dug through the rubble of collapsed homes on Tuesday after the country’s deadliest earthquake in years killed at least 126 people and injured …

At least nine workers were killed in a blast Sunday at a factory manufacturing drones and explosives in western India, the government said. The explosion at Solar Industries India in …

North Korea fired at least one ballistic missile on Sunday, Seoul’s military said, as the United States and South Korea warned any nuclear attack would lead to the end of …

Iran said on Sunday that it had begun the trial of a Swedish national employed by the European Union who is charged with spying for Israel and “corruption on earth,” …