The death toll has risen to 26 after a bus fell into a gorge in India's northern state of Uttarakhand with 30 people on board, with four of those rescued in critical condition, a police official said on Monday.

A Chinese fighter aircraft dangerously intercepted an Australian military surveillance plane in the East Sea region in May, Australia's defense department said on Sunday.

At least five people died and some 100 were injured after a massive fire tore through a container depot in Bangladesh's southeastern town of Sitakunda, officials said Sunday.

North Korea launched at least one ballistic missile into waters off its east coast, South Korea's military said Sunday, the latest in a recent series of weapons tests.

Japan's government is considering resuming a national travel discount campaign as soon as late this month to help the tourism industry recover from a Covid-19 slump, the Nikkei newspaper said on Saturday.

Myanmar's junta will execute a former member of Aung San Suu Kyi's party and a prominent democracy activist, both of whom were convicted of terrorism, in the country's first judicial executions since 1990, a spokesman told AFP on Friday.

North Korea is ramping up production of drugs and medical supplies including sterilizers and thermometers as it battles an unprecedented coronavirus outbreak, state media KCNA said on Thursday.

Beijing tightened Covid restrictions on Sunday following an outbreak, while Shanghai let some of its residents venture out after reporting a second day of zero infections outside of quarantine areas.

Shanghai said it had detected no new daily Covid-19 cases outside quarantine areas, marking a milestone in its battle to contain the virus, which put residents in Beijing on edge.

India said it had seized $725 million from the local bank accounts of China's Xiaomi Corp after it made illegal remittances to foreign entities by passing them off as payments.