Asia Today

Today's headlines: 3 people killed in Manila University shooting; Iran allegedly dismantles Mossad spy network after killing of another nuclear programme scientist; Russia Today opens a new representative office in Nairobi; Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan agree on borders.

Today's headlines: Chinese spoonbill fish and Yangtze sturgeon extinct; Strike at South Korean Daewo shipyard ends; IAEA: Iran's nuclear program accelerating; Prominent West Bengal minister arrested for money laundering; Putin promises more money to families; Armenia buys arms from India.

Today's headlines: Suffocating heat wave hits China; The Philippines to step up patrols of the South China Sea; Israel will strip citizenship from those who commit acts of 'disloyalty'; Sonia Gandhi, President of the Indian Congress, questioned on money laundering charges; Raging brawls in Russian supermarkets amid produce shortage.

Today's headlines: Uruguay wants a free trade agreement with China; Japanese parliamentary delegation to visit Taiwan next week; Turkish bombing in Iraqi Kurdistan kills nine civilians; Journalist Zubair freed in India; Rais on fundamentalist schools in Uzebekistan.

Today's headlines: Police raids on homes of Covid-19 suspects sparks anger in China; Vatican diplomatic appointments in Taiwan and Hong Kong; Islamist leader Shihab released from prison in Indonesia; India tries to save the national currency; New restrictive measures against homosexuals in Russia.

Today's headlines: Israel shoots down Hezbollah drone; China increases sale of raw materials to Russia for military use; Nancy Pelosi to visit Taiwan in August; 50 members of the National League for Democracy have died since coup; Ukraine war led to closure of 113,500 Russian companies; Tajik prosecutor's office opens investigation into death of demonstrators in Gorno-Badakšan.

Today's headlines: tension at the G20 Finance in Indonesia over the Russian attack on Ukraine; Lockdowns extended again in China; North Korea claims to have brought the pandemic under control; Iran reported to have atom bomb capabilities; 50,000 Russian soldiers dead or wounded in Ukraine war; Afghan missile attacks on Uzbekistan.

The news of the day: Xi Jinping visits Xinjiang and praises the iron fist policy against the Uyghurs. India asked the WTO to let it export grains from its public stocks to countries facing food crisis. Demining has begun on the Turkish-Armenian border. Kazakhstan wants to attract foreign businesses that left the Russian market.

Today’s headlines: Gotabaya Rajapaksa formalises his resignation; Japan and the UK on the brink of joint production of military fighter jets; in the Philippines a mayor has signed an ordinance requiring civil servants to smile; Russia blocks a site helping Buryats military personnel return home is blocked.

Today's headlines: in Sri Lanka, protesters hand back occupied buildings to the government; dysentery cases are on the rise in Afghanistan; dengue cases have more than doubled since last year in Vietnam; Shnaghai issues a heat wave warning; an airport in the shape of an Islamic crescent is to be built in Groznyj.

Today's headlines: Colombo declares a state of emergency; Japan's the wasabi industry fears climate change; Modi government criticised over 'ominous' statue on India's parliament building; in Russia soldiers' mothers mobilise to stop their sons going to the front; an Isis leader is killed in Syria.

Today's headlines: Henan authorities will start releasing blocked funds from rural banks; torrential rains continue in Pakistan; dengue infections in the Philippines up by 90 per cent; in Uzbekistan up to $35,000 paid for newborn babies.