Wind and rain buffeted the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday, causing delays to competition and event rescheduling, but stopping short of battering the host city as initially feared.

Pakistan yesterday reopened a major southwestern border crossing with Afghanistan that is currently under Taliban control on the Afghan side, Pakistani customs officials said, allowing over 100 trucks carrying goods to cross into Afghanistan.

“Robot, stand up” — Oscar Constanza, 16, gives the order and slowly but surely a large frame strapped to his body lifts him up and he starts walking.

The ruling party of Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has won a majority of seats in Pakistan-administered Kashmir’s regional assembly, the head of the election commission announced yesterday.

Britain and France yesterday signed a new security deal aimed at protecting the public in the event of a terror attack in the Channel against a large vessel such as a passenger ferry, the British government said.

The poorest 10% of Indians face a risk of dying from air pollution that is nine times higher than for the richest 10%, according to research released yesterday.

The chief minister of India’s Karnataka, the only state ruled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party in the country’s prosperous south, resigned yesterday in the latest political shake-up in the Hindu nationalist group.

Hundreds of junior doctors at state-run Malaysian hospitals staged walkouts yesterday demanding better conditions as the country faces its worst coronavirus outbreak yet.

Muhammad Ihsan gratefully lugs an oxygen cylinder into a small office in Jakarta’s outskirts, lining the breathing equipment up with scores of others against a wall.

Malaysia’s government will not extend a controversial coronavirus state of emergency beyond August 1, a minister said yesterday, as parliament convened after a months-long suspension that sparked widespread anger.

A court in Tanzania has charged the leader of the main opposition party with terrorism-related crimes, police said yesterday, following his arrest while preparing for a meeting to discuss proposals for a new constitution.

Equatorial Guinea will close its diplomatic mission in London, the country’s foreign minister said yesterday, after Britain last week sanctioned the son of its president for misappropriating millions of dollars.