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Moonshot AI appears to be preparing Kimi K3.1 after developers found a callable model identifier, "kimi-k3-1", in the company's API platform registry on September 28. A preview subsequently appeared on…
Pakistan has extended its ban on Indian aircraft using its airspace until 4:59 a.m. local time on November 24, 2026, according to the Pakistan Airports Authority (PAA). The extension replaces…
Six cargoes from Reliance Industries' Jamnagar refinery in Gujarat reached European Union ports in September 2026, according to the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), eight months…
Cambodia and Türkiye signed a Military Framework Agreement on October 16, 2026, as Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sought closer military ties and renewed…
The European Union is discussing whether to remove restrictions on an unnamed Chinese company accused of helping Russia's war against Ukraine in exchange for Beijing easing export controls on Sindlhauser…
Pakistan has confirmed a substantial military deployment to Saudi Arabia as escalating Houthi attacks test two defence agreements and threaten Islamabad's relationship with neighbouring Iran. The immediate challenge is protecting…
Uzbekistan and China are seeking to turn a project portfolio approaching $60 billion into operating businesses, stronger transport links and wider trade, with a railway through Kyrgyzstan at the centre of their plans. President Shavkat Mirziyoyev received Chinese Premier Li Qiang in Tashkent on October…
US Vice President JD Vance has accepted responsibility for what he called imperfect rhetoric after describing foreign professionals as "indentured servants", saying his criticism targeted employers and the visa system…
Malaysia's Prisons Department is completing the rules for Najib Razak's proposed house arrest, but the former prime minister remains in Kajang Prison because he has not paid the RM50 million…
An 80-meter leisure vessel carrying a swimming pool with four lanes and several water slides has been repeatedly spotted near North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's family compound in Wonsan.…
Bangladesh is processing proposals to create 24,677 police posts, including 10,000 constables and 4,000 subinspectors, as the government seeks to expand patrols, strengthen investigations and increase staffing across the country.…
Taiwan's legislature had released 278 of 279 frozen defense spending items by June 27, 2025, leaving funding for the indigenous submarine program as the final unresolved item. The releases followed…
Vietnam's Supreme People's Procuracy has proposed a pilot lasting two years from March 1, 2027, allowing courts to recover assets linked to money laundering, economic crimes, corruption and abuse of…
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi sent a ritual evergreen offering to Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on October 17, 2026, prompting South Korea to express "deep disappointment and regret" even as…
Taiwan deported a Chinese exchange student on October 16, 2026, and barred him from applying to return for five years after he posted footage that made it appear he was…
Huanggang Port recorded 9,728 departures in a single hour on Sunday, October 18, 2026, as a surge of travellers heading from Hong Kong to mainland China brought queues and crowd…
Busan's North Port Waterfront Park recorded 1.54 million cumulative visits by 6 p.m. on October 17, 2026, as crowds gathered to see Bukangi, a large shark that has spent 30…
India's Supreme Court has recognised children's right to access and use the internet while ordering a national system to detect and remove child sexual exploitation and abuse material. Its October…
Sri Lanka's Human Rights Commission has called for the faster return of land occupied by the military in the Tamil majority north and east, saying militarisation continues 17 years after…
An octopus that appeared to have vanished from Moguranpia Aquarium in Kuji, Iwate Prefecture, was hiding inside its own tank. Staff later concluded that it had slipped into a small…
A young man from Xinjiang selling naan in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, has attracted long queues by offering three large breads for 10 yuan. Each weighs nearly two jin, or about…
Bangladesh's average household earned Tk 32,685 a month and spent Tk 32,615, leaving just Tk 70, according to a Power and Participation Research Centre study that puts poverty at 27.93%.…
Hong Kong's largest LGBTQ carnival, Pink Dot, has been cancelled for a second consecutive year, extending a retreat from public celebrations that drew more than 13,000 visitors to its last…
Nvidia has asked Samsung Electronics, SK hynix and Micron to use TSMC's 3nm manufacturing process for the base dies in its next generation of custom high bandwidth memory, according to…
Apple Pay launched in India on September 30, 2026, with support for eligible Axis Bank credit cards on the Visa and Mastercard networks. Customers can add those cards to Apple…
Sri Lanka's first passenger transport drone has arrived in the country, with its maiden flight planned at Colombo Port City by the end of October 2026, according to the Civil…
At least two Deepal rental cars used during a Norwegian military exercise recorded sensitive activity, including soldiers entering vehicles, routes to military facilities and codes used to open gates or…
Artificial intelligence agents being used for research and evaluation reached the live computer systems of several Indian organisations and read business records, personal data and confidential material, according to an…
More than 2.6 million girls in Afghanistan have been denied secondary education since 2021, UNICEF said on August 14, 2026, warning that continued restrictions could leave the country without up to 20,000 women teachers and 5,400 female health workers by 2030. Five years after the…
A mother orangutan with burns on her hands and feet, her infant son and an adult male coughing after exposure to smoke are among the animals caught in Indonesia's forest…
Typhoon Champi strengthened to sustained winds of 55 meters per second as forecasts shifted its path farther west, raising the likelihood that its storm winds would reach Taiwan. The Central…
Mining permits across 12 regencies and cities in Aceh cover 155,307.50 hectares, with more than three quarters of that area assigned to exploration, according to figures attributed to the provincial…
A white male orca photographed about 3.5 miles off Rausu, on Hokkaido's Shiretoko Peninsula, has completed a photographer's long pursuit of the three white orcas identified in these waters. The…
At Kuala Lumpur's Tasik Ampang Hilir, Fisheries Department records cited by Agriculture and Food Security Ministry secretary-general Datuk Seri Isham Ishak counted 146 alien fish and just eight native fish…
An adult female tiger named Umit was released into Kazakhstan's Ile-Balkhash State Nature Reserve on July 31, 2026, beginning the country's effort to rebuild a wild tiger population more than…
Up to 40.5 million people in South Asia could move within their own countries by 2050 as climate pressures undermine water supplies, farming and coastal communities. Amy Pope, director general…
Indonesia's North Java Coast Management Authority (BOPPJ) is scheduled to launch a coastal protection pilot involving mangroves on October 19, 2026, ahead of a planned 575 kilometre defence system stretching…
All Nippon Airways unveiled its Chiikawa Jet at a Haneda Airport hangar on October 18, 2026, ahead of a scheduled October 19 debut on flight NH661 from Tokyo to Nagasaki.…
Hong Kong's rebuilt Huanggang Port recorded 9,728 departures between 1pm and 2pm on October 18, 2026, as its first Sunday of operation collided with the Chung Yeung Festival holiday. The…
Vietnam's Central Heritage Connection between Hue and Da Nang has placed 10th among 20 rail journeys in the 2026 Readers' Choice Awards, bringing international attention to a service that carried…
Thailand's airport security staff will be able to open suspicious checked baggage without waiting for its owner to be present under rules taking effect on October 16, 2026. The Civil…
JR Central and JR West will raise Nozomi and Mizuho reserved seat charges for tickets purchased from July 1, 2027, taking the normal adult fare between Tokyo and Shin-Osaka to…
Chen Ping-hsuan and Lee Wei-ting won Taiwan's first men's doubles gold at the 2026 World Junior Badminton Championships in Cairo, defeating Japan's Mahiro Oku and Masato Yamashiro 15-10, 15-9 in…
The Aichi-Nagoya 2026 Asian Para Games opened on October 18 at Paloma Mizuho Stadium in Nagoya, bringing together a record 45 countries and regions for Japan's first staging of the…
At 20 years and 204 days old, Zeng Sheng-an turned a fielding mistake into a championship breakthrough. The Wei Chuan Dragons right fielder hit a three-run home run in the…
Low Zi Yu, 16, and Genevie Lim, 18, won Malaysia's first World Junior Championships girls' doubles title on October 17, 2026, beating Japan's Nijika Kamata and Shizuku Kashio 15-7, 9-15,…
Uzbekistan's Diyora Keldiyorova won gold and 100 world ranking points at the Aktau Asian Open in Kazakhstan on October 17, 2026, returning to international judo for the first time since…
Jasprit Bumrah will return to India's Test squad for the first time since November 2025 as Shubman Gill leads a group of 16 players to New Zealand for matches beginning…
The Hanshin Tigers are considering allowing Teruaki Sato to pursue a Major League Baseball contract through the posting system after the 27-year-old third baseman finished the 2026 season with a…
An Se-young extended her winning streak to 43 matches by beating Japan's Nozomi Okuhara 21-16, 21-8 in the Denmark Open semifinals, setting up a final against Akane Yamaguchi with a…
Gong Yoo told fans at Istora Senayan in Central Jakarta on October 17, 2026, that he had sought hospital treatment in South Korea before travelling to Indonesia after developing flu…
Nine of Indonesia's best known guitarists are being brought together for a performance lasting about 45 to 50 minutes before Guns N' Roses take the stage in Jakarta on November…
Andy Lau and his wife, Carol Chu, have drawn fresh attention after a social media user spotted them at Hong Kong's Peninsula hotel and shared images of the couple walking…
A boat carrying singer Hà An Huy and circus artist Phùng Minh Cương travelled along a zipline stretching more than 200 metres at the opening Anh Trai Vượt Ngàn Chông…
BTS surpassed 10 billion Spotify streams for 2026 by October 16, becoming the first group to reach that total in a single calendar year, according to its agency, Big Hit…
On the eve of Valentine's Day in February 2019, Afghan poet Ramin Mazhar recited a poem on a hilltop. Singer Ghawgha Taban turned its words into a song, and a…
Siti Nurhaliza brought about 63,000 people to TM National Stadium Bukit Jalil in Kuala Lumpur for Gema Bumantara, a concert devoted entirely to traditional music and Nusantara heritage. Rain fell…
Gerardon won King of Conte 2026 on October 17 at TBS in Tokyo's Akasaka district, scoring 671 points in each of two sketches to claim the championship with 1,342 points.…