Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index plunged 5% and other Asian markets also tumbled Monday after oil prices soared to nearly $120 a barrel, casting a shadow over economies heavily dependent on imported crude and gas from the region.

Oil prices surged above $100 per barrel as the critical Strait of Hormuz remains closed due to threats from Iran.

Lebanon’s parliament has extended its term for two years on Monday due to the U.S.-Israel war with Iran and Israeli operations in Lebanon. The state news agency said 76 legislators voted in favor, 41 voted against,

The trial of Istanbul's mayor and 400 current and former city employees began Monday in Turkey over allegations of corruption and organized crime.

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French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday pledged to defend Cyprus and dispatch additional warships to the Eastern Mediterranean to strengthen allies' security in the region unsettled by the Iran war.

Rescuers are searching for four missing people after a large stack of garbage collapsed at Indonesia’s biggest landfill over the weekend, killing at least five, an official said on Monday (March 9).

Twelve years after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished with 239 people aboard, a deep-sea search has so far failed to locate the missing aircraft, as families pressed for the effort to continue.