WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is willing to sign legislation to impose sanctions on Russia as long as he retains ultimate decision-making authority over any such measures, a senior White House official said on Monday.
SEOUL - North Korea said on Tuesday the joint fact sheet that the United States and South Korea announced last week cements the two countries' confrontational stance against North Korea, and North Korea will take countermeasures, according to state media KCNA.
Best known for its teahouses and laid-back charm, Sichuan’s capital is reinventing itself by turning global events - including esports tournaments - into engines of growth.
For Asian economies, resilience is necessary to ensure hard-won development gains are not eroded by climate shocks, says COP30 special envoy and environment think tank CEO Arunabha Ghosh.
A group of lawmakers has urged the United States Commerce Department to investigate and potentially ban the sale of networking products from TP‑Link Technologies by the end of this month, as these products may pose a “serious and present danger” to US information and
Some have cancelled plans to travel to Japan while others wait to see if bilateral tension will ease.
It underscores broader concerns among developing nations about international climate finance, which has been slow to materialise.
UN climate chief Simon Stiell urged ministers on Monday (Nov 17) to speed up talks at COP30, saying: "I urge you to get to the hardest issues fast".
This is the second in a two-part series. Read part one here. Globalization has always had its critics – but until recently, they have come mainly from the left rather than the right. In the wake of the Second World War, as the world economy grew rapidly under US dominance, many
ANKARA - Turkish Defence Minister Yasar Guler said on Monday it would take at least two months to reach initial findings and analyse the black box of a Turkish cargo plane that crashed in Georgia last week and left 20 soldiers dead.
"The tragic bus accident involving Indian pilgrims in Saudi Arabia is deeply distressing," VC Sajjanar, police commissioner for the city of Hyderabad, where many of the Indian citizens were reported to have come from, told reporters.
NEW YORK - The number of newly enrolled international students studying at U.S. colleges and universities dropped by 17% this autumn following new restrictions on student visas and other Trump administration policies, according to a report released on Monday.
Jailed former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been ordered to pay back taxes over the sale of his telecoms firm. He is one of Thailand's richest people.
PARIS - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday said he had signed a letter of intent with France to acquire up to 100 Rafale F4 fighter jets as his country looks to strengthen its defences against Russian aggression.
The former prime minister was tried by a special tribunal after 1,400 died during a crackdown on unrest in 2024.
The 76-year-old is serving a jail sentence in Bangkok for corruption during his time in office.
BELEM, Brazil - Government ministers from around the world were preparing for a final few fraught days of talks at the U.N. climate summit as they bid to secure a deal that demonstrates global resolve amid increasing assertiveness from developing nations.
Japan provided more than US$370 million (S$482 million) in grants to Laos between 2019 and 2024.
The US Treasury Department has described Chen as the mastermind behind one of Asia’s largest criminal organisations.
As Russia continues its grinding offensive and Ukraine braces for another winter of war, the European Union remains paralyzed over a seemingly straightforward decision: whether to use 140 billion euros (US$162.4 billion) in frozen Russian assets to support Kyiv. Officially, the
China’s central bank has just drawn the contours of its digital-finance strategy for the next five years. The sequencing is unmistakable: clear the ground first, then rebuild the system. The rhythm has been unusually coherent. On October 27 at the Financial Street Forum in
MIC’s soul-searching highlights the struggles of minority parties in the changing political landscape.
Lee's counterpart Ashley Westwood similarly said that his team are thinking about "nothing but winning".
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s recent statement on Taiwan —the island, de facto independent but de jure part of one China—shifted Asian and global dynamics in a new direction. It was carefully crafted, clearly stating what Tokyo has considered the truth for years:
MOSCOW - Russia's financial watchdog has added former prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov and leading economist Sergei Guriev to its list of \"extremists and terrorists\", its website showed on Monday.
The group’s local subsidiaries in S. Korea and Taiwan have been linked to real estate purchases.
It’s the second major reshuffle in Marcos’ Cabinet since he took office in 2022.
Transporting worshippers around Saudi Arabia’s holy sites has frequently proven dangerous.
Officials said the vessel was carrying about 70 undocumented migrants, mostly from the Rohingya community.
This is part of a deal in which Indonesia's exports to the US would face a tariff rate of 19% instead of 32%.
Amir Rashid Ali is accused of having “conspired with the alleged suicide bomber”, said India’s agency.
Move signals increasingly sour ties over new Japanese leader’s remarks on Taiwan.
A Chinese plant scientist at the University of Michigan who drew national attention in June 2025 when she was arrested and accused along with another Chinese scientist of smuggling a crop-damaging fungus into the US pleaded guilty on November 12, 2025, to charges of smuggling
The music video features the members in outfits showing their thighs and midriffs.
The civil engineer was seen in the front row of a protest organised by the National Socialist Network.
Thailand wants to take back both elephants, according to animal rights activists.
More than 200,000 protesters turned out for the second day of an anti-graft rally.
MANILA - More than 200,000 protesters turned out on Monday for the second day of an anti-graft rally in the Philippines, part of a wave of demonstrations since August demanding accountability for suspected corruption in flood-control projects.
“No returns or exchanges if removed,” the giant tags warn - a viral new deterrent as China’s fashion retailers take outsized steps to rein in costly product returns.
She was found guilty of ordering lethal force by a tribunal in Dhaka 15 months after resigning.
DHAKA - Bangladesh’s Sheikh Hasina, sentenced to death in absentia on Monday for her deadly crackdown on student protesters last year, has been a dominant figure in the South Asian nation for half a century, a career rooted in bloodshed.
It rejected the correction direction and criticised the Government’s approach to clarifying online falsehoods.
Star Wars is back in vogue with President Donald Trump’s executive order to establish the “Golden Dome” missile defense system, a shield that will feature an ambitious space-based boost-phase interceptor program in addition to terrestrial systems. While admittedly the holy
DHAKA - A Bangladesh court sentenced ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death on Monday, concluding a months-long trial that found her guilty of ordering a deadly crackdown on a student-led uprising last year.
The relationship between the two countries is still dogged by historical issues.