Myanmar is now the world’s largest opium producer, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reported on Tuesday, as the economic and political crisis following the 2021 coup and widening conflict between the military and armed groups continues to drive farmers towards illicit opium poppy production.
The death toll from a volcanic eruption in Indonesia has gone up to 22, after rescuers found nine more bodies.
Four people have been killed in an explosion at a Catholic Mass in the southern Philippines on Sunday morning.
Frances Sternhagen, a Tony Award-winning actor who played eccentric maternal characters in the TV shows "Sex and the City" and "Cheers," has died at 93.
Henry Kissinger, the former secretary of state under Richard Nixon who became one of the most prominent and controversial figures of US foreign policy in the 20th century, has died. He was 100.
A brain-dead Sri Lankan’s key organs have been donated in Italy with the consent of his family.
Rescuers in India have freed 41 workers who had been trapped in a collapsed Himalayan tunnel for 17 days.
Sierra Leone has spent the night under a nationwide curfew after armed men broke into prisons, freeing inmates.
Delhi’s Saket court has announced life imprisonment for four men who murdered television journalist Soumya Vishwanathan in 2008.
Hamas on Friday released 24 hostages it held captive in Gaza for weeks, and Israel freed 39 Palestinians from prison in the first stage of a swap under a four-day ceasefire that offered a small glimmer of relief to both sides.
