US and South Korea begin one of their largest joint aerial war games with hundreds of warplanes staging mock attacks 24-hours-a-day.

At least 146 people are crushed to death and 150 more injured at a Halloween party in the South Korean capital.

North and South Korea trade warning shots at their maritime borderline, accusing each other of breaching the boundary amid rising tensions.

North Korea's military has confirmed firing over 250 artillery shells into maritime buffer zones near the inter-Korean border, describing it as a "serious warning" against the South's ongoing joint war games with the United States.

South Korea's troops, joined by some US forces, kicked off the annual Hoguk war games on Monday to ramp up their ability to counter North Korea's nuclear and missile tests.

Iran's President Raeisi says new Asia in the modern world requires an endogenous pattern to confront security, economic, media and cyber challenges.

China’s threats of military action against Taiwan are “absolutely not an option” and will only push the two sides "further from each other,” Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen said on Monday.

North Korea's recent missile tests demonstrated its ability to conduct strikes with "tactical nuclear weapons", the country's leader Kim Jong-un has said, adding that his forces were ready to "hit and wipe out targets at any time from any location”.

A new transit map is being charted here. Transport ministers from Iran and five Central Asian Countries, including Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan are in Tehran attending the first transit cooperation summit.

Here are Press TV's latest top stories at 1600 GMT, August 16, 2022.