India seizes $180M in jewels from fugitive diamond merchants

Indian authorities have seized diamonds, pearls and silver jewelry worth $180 million as part of an investigation of a fugitive diamond merchant who is being held in London while fighting his extradition

Gas fire kills 2 firefighters in India, forces evacuations

A state-owned Indian oil company says a raging fire at a natural gas field in remote northeastern India has killed two firefighters and forced nearly 8,000 people to leave their homes

Asia Today: India surge continues with nearly 10,000 cases

The number of coronavirus cases in India continues to rapidly increase, with officials reporting nearly 10,000 new cases over the past 24 hours

Virus slows Dubai airport, world's busiest for global travel

The lack of flights due to the coronavirus pandemic is perhaps nowhere felt more clearly than at Dubai International Airport, for years the world’s busiest for international travel

Unemployed Filipina feeds other jobless migrants in Dubai

It’s sweltering hot and late afternoon in Dubai when Feby Dela Peña arrives with 200 free meals of rice, fried fish and boiled eggs

Libya’s oil company says largest oil field shut down again

Libya's national oil company says a unit affiliated with east-based forces, which have been trying to capture Tripoli but are now on the retreat, have ordered the country’s largest oil field to halt work just hours after it restarted operations

Nile countries resume talks over disputed dam after deadlock

Sudanese officials say three key Nile basin countries have resumed negotiations over a giant $4.6 billion hydroelectric dam that Egypt fears will constrict its water supply

Amid US tension, Iran builds fake aircraft carrier to attack

Iran appears to have constructed a new mock-up of an aircraft carrier off its southern coast for potential live-fire drills

Persian Gulf Tensions

Asia Today: New Delhi reverses limits on testing, sickbeds

New Delhi has reversed orders that limited the scope of coronavirus testing and reserved hospital beds for city residents as the Indian capital’s caseload continues to surge