South Korea's BTS K-pop supergroup launched its global concert tour on Thursday with the first of three concerts at Goyang Stadium near Seoul. The tour will take the band to 34 cities across the world, setting a new record for the most tour dates by a K-pop artist.
Telenor is facing a class action lawsuit in Norway over the actions of its subsidiary in Myanmar. The case alleges that Telenor Myanmar passed phone data of more than 1,200 people to the country's military junta following the 2021 coup.
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A TV screen shows a file image of North Korea's missile launch during a news program at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, April 8, 2026.
India has been conducting a fully digital census since April 1, deploying over 3 million enumerators while also providing people with an opportunity to enter their data into a self-enumeration portal. In the first phase, the officials will focus on house listing and housing conditions.
The leader of Taiwan's Kuomintang (KMT) opposition party Cheng Li-wun was in China's eastern city of Nanjing on Wednesday in a visit heavy with historical symbolism.
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Jakarta, October 1965. After a failed coup attempt, the Indonesian army and its allies killed, tortured and imprisoned hundreds of thousands of Indonesians they suspected to be communists, many of them of Chinese descent.
North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles toward the sea on Wednesday, following the launch of an unidentified projectile on Tuesday, South Korea's military said. According to South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff, the missiles were launched from North Korea's eastern coastal Wonsan area toward the eastern waters.
Talks in China between Afghanistan and Pakistan to resolve an ongoing conflict have seen "useful" progress, according to Afghanistan's Taliban-run Foreign Ministry. The two sides have been negotiating in China's western city of Urumqi since Thursday last week in an effort to end clashes that have left scores killed on both sides.
The South Korean government has asked the European Union to act as a mediator in talks with North Korea as it seeks to move beyond the present bilateral "distrust and hostility" and achieve a breakthrough in relations with Pyongyang.
Taiwan's opposition leader Cheng Li-wun is on a rare visit to China at the invitation of President Xi Jinping which as she says is for promoting cross-strait "peace."