Benoy Babu, head for international brands for Pernod India, was arrested on Nov. 11 as India's federal financial crime agency, the Enforcement Directorate, looks into irregularities involving retailers, politicians, and individual businesspeople in the implementation of a 2021 New Delhi liquor policy.

The Turkish official Anadolu Agency reported that rescuers pulled out three people alive from rubble early Saturday, 12 days after a devastating earthquake that claimed more than 41,000 lives in southern Türkiye, but the child later died.

South Korea called North Korea “our enemy” in its biennial defense document published Thursday, reviving the label for its rival for the first time in six years, as tensions worsen between the two countries.

China on Thursday imposed trade and investment sanctions on Lockheed Martin and a unit of Raytheon for supplying weapons to Taiwan, stepping up efforts to isolate the island democracy claimed by the ruling Communist Party as part of its territory.