South Korea said the presumed ICBM was fired at about 6 a.m. local time Wednesday with a flight range of about 360 kilometers (223 miles) and altitude of approximately 540 kilometers (335 miles). At about 6:37 a.m., the North fired
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Quad summit 2022: Live updates
Australia’s new Prime Minister Anthony Albanese arrives at Haneda airport in Tokyo on May 23. (Charly Triballeau/AFP/Getty Images) Australia’s new Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is attending the Quad, after winning the election on Saturday and being sworn-in Monday. And Chinese
Analysis: South Korea and Japan just don’t get along. That’s a problem for Biden
Before Moscow’s unprovoked war, European nations were split over issues ranging from Russian energy pipelines to Brexit and — with lingering resentments dating back to Trump-era trade disputes and the Iraq war — some even appeared to be rethinking their
Top Taliban leader makes more promises on women’s rights but quips ‘naughty women’ should stay home
Sirajuddin Haqqani, Afghanistan’s acting interior minister and the Taliban’s co-deputy leader since 2016, made the comments in an exclusive, first on-camera interview showing his face with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in Kabul. In March after many promises that girls would be
Pakistan hit by deadly cholera outbreak as heat wave grips South Asia
Temperatures in parts of Pakistan and India have reached record levels in recent weeks, putting the lives of millions at risk as the effects of the climate crisis are felt across the subcontinent. Cholera cases were first identified in Pir
Sri Lanka down to last day of petrol, Prime Minister tells crisis-hit nation
Ranil Wickremesinghe, appointed prime minister on Thursday, said in an address to the nation the country urgently needed $75 million in foreign exchange to pay for essential imports. “At the moment, we only have petrol stocks for a single day.
Kim Jong Un mobilizes North Korea’s military in response to Covid-19 outbreak
Despite having placed all cities under lockdown on Thursday, a further 392,920 new cases of “fever” and eight deaths were recorded between Saturday and Sunday evening alone, state media outlet KCNA reported on Monday, though it did not specify Covid-19
China tensions loom as Okinawa marks 50 years since US handover
Okinawa, a string of tropical islands off far southwest Japan much closer to Taiwan than Tokyo, suffered massive devastation in World War II. Two months of bloody battles between US and Japanese forces left as many as a third of
What we know (and don’t know) about North Korea’s Covid outbreak
North Korea reported 15 more deaths and 296,180 new “fever cases” between Friday and Saturday evening, according to state media KCNA, though it did not specify how many of the deaths and cases were linked to Covid, likely due to
Leaving locked down Shanghai for a ‘whole new world’ outside China
Our plane had just taken off from Shanghai, a city of gleaming high-rises, home to 25 million people who are slowly being worn down by China’s unrelenting zero-Covid regime. As she approached my row, the flight attendant addressed me with
