MADRID, Dec 4 - Spanish police have dismantled a crime ring accused of bringing in hundreds of foreign migrants irregularly to work at farms across eastern Spain in what the Interior Ministry described as inhumane, slave-like conditions.
The carrier's flight disruptions have persisted for three days since Dec 1.
In the final years of Joko Widodo’s presidency, Nusantara —Indonesia’s new capital in East Kalimantan —was hailed as a bold experiment in nation-building. Conceived as a sustainable smart city meant to redistribute growth beyond Java’s overburdened plains, it was Jokowi’s
NEW DELHI, Dec 4 - India and Russia want to boost their trade and expand the variety of items in transactions, both said on Thursday as Russian President Vladimir Putin headed to New Delhi to start a two-day state visit.
LONDON, Dec 4 - Britain on Thursday announced new sanctions against Russia, including the state's GRU military intelligence agency, following a UK public inquiry report into the death of a woman after being poisoned by the nerve agent Novichok.
KOTHMALE, Sri Lanka, Dec 4 - Residents of Kithulbadde village in central Sri Lanka say they have been left in the lurch after last week's deadly cyclone and many are stuck in relief centres as damaged infrastructure has made them wary of returning home.
MOSCOW, Dec 4 - Russia said on Thursday that any \"illegal action\" by the European Union in relation to its frozen assets would elicit \"the harshest reaction\", and that Moscow was already preparing its response.
Dec 4 - Results flipped in the contested Honduran presidential election as conservative candidate Nasry Asfura took a slight lead over centrist Salvador Nasralla, with 84.4% of the votes counted.
The ministry cited security risks and its alleged involvement in over 1,700 fraud cases since 2024.
The authorities said the adjustment reflects improvements in public safety.
If realised, the visit will be symbolic of a recent improvement in bilateral ties.
Myanmar’s military regime has announced elections will be held in three phases, starting on December 28 and concluding in January. Two outcomes are certain: first, the military-aligned party will be recorded as winning and, second, the government in exile – the National Unity
ROME, Dec 4 - Italy's defence minister on Thursday said other countries, including Germany and Australia, may be interested in entering the GCAP fighter jet programme in the future, with requests also coming from Saudi Arabia and Canada.
India expects to take delivery of the nuclear-powered vessel within two years.
The US has begun deploying its own Shahed-style drones in the Middle East — but the same low-cost swarming logic that works against Iran may fall apart in the vast, naval-dominated Pacific. This month, The War Zone (TWZ) reported that the US has deployed its first operational
BAGHDAD, Dec 4 - Iraq will freeze the money of Iran-backed armed groups, including Lebanon's Hezbollah and Yemen's Houthis, the official gazette said.
ANKARA, Dec 4 - Turkey's defence ministry said on Thursday construction work had started on its first indigenous submarine (MILDEN), adding that Ankara had also completed its first sale of a corvette warship to a NATO ally by inking an agreement with Romania.
The corporate world has faced its share of existential shocks: Y2K, the collapse of trust in TLS/SSL cryptographic protocols and the stringent enforcement of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Each was initially dismissed as a distant technical
MOSCOW, Dec 4 - President Vladimir Putin said in an interview published on Thursday that Russia would take full control of Ukraine's Donbas region by force unless Ukrainian forces withdraw, something Kyiv has flatly rejected.
ATHENS, Dec 4 - Two dozen aid workers went on trial in Greece on Thursday on charges including migrant smuggling, in a case that rights groups have dismissed as a baseless attempt to outlaw aid for refugees heading to Europe.
The Indonesian weather agency warned that some provinces in Sumatra would see moderate to heavy rain.
MANILA, Dec 4 - The Asian Development Bank and the World Bank on Thursday launched two Pacific islands projects under a first-of-its-kind cofinancing model that aims to streamline processes and speed up delivery.
The earthquake struck at 3.44pm local time, with the epicentre at a depth of 10km.
The public backs PM Sanae Takaichi's moves to make Japan more militarily formidable.
The operations are said to exceed a mass naval deployment in 2024 that prompted Taiwan to raise its alert level.
This article was jointly reported by Peter J Quaranto, visiting professor of the practice, University of Notre Dame; Josefina Echavarria Alvarez, professor of the practice in international peace studies, University of Notre Dame; Pavlo Smytsnyuk, visiting scholar at the Jordan
ISTANBUL, Dec 4 - Turkey is telling Russia, Ukraine, and all other parties to keep energy infrastructure out of their conflict and wants energy flows to continue uninterrupted, Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said after a series of attacks off Turkey's Black Sea coast.
SYDNEY, Dec 4 - An Australian court has jailed for 16 years the former kingpin of a multibillion-dollar drug trafficking syndicate, police said on Thursday, bringing to a close their 14-year investigation of man popularly called \"Asia’s El Chapo\".
SYDNEY, Dec 4 - Defence Minister Richard Marles said Australia had received the United States' review of the AUKUS nuclear submarine partnership and is \"working through it\".
Dec 4 - Israel has identified the remains of the hostage it received from Hamas on Wednesday as Thai agricultural worker Sudthisak Rinthalak, the prime minister's office said on Thursday.
JAKARTA, Dec 4 - Indonesia will revoke mining permits if companies are found to have violated rules on flood-ravaged Sumatra island, the energy minister said as questions intensified about the role of deforestation in worsening the deadly disaster.
BAGHDAD/WASHINGTON, Dec 4 - Iranian drones swept through the mountain air of northern Iraq's Kurdistan region in mid-July, homing in on their targets: oilfields run by Americans.
Albert Tei was accused of bribing Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Akin on four separate occasions.
Dec 3 - The United States has halted plans to impose sanctions on China's ministry of state security over a massive cyber spying campaign to avoid derailing a trade truce struck by both countries this year, the Financial Times said on Wednesday.
HONG KONG, Dec 4 - Hong Kong authorities rushed on Thursday to remove mesh netting on all buildings undergoing renovation across the city after the material was blamed for fanning a blaze last week that has killed at least 159 people.
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 4 - Malaysian authorities on Thursday charged a former top aide to Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim with receiving bribes, increasing scrutiny on the premier's pledge to crack down on corruption.
Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Akin, the prime minister’s former senior political secretary and mining boss Albert Tei Jiann Cheng, were charged at the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court on Thursday (Dec 4).
China wants its consumers to spend again. This ambition sits at the center of a newly unveiled action plan issued by Beijing last month, a sweeping attempt to engineer demand by reshaping what households buy rather than how much they earn. The initiative is expansive,
SYDNEY, Dec 4 - Australia's internet regulator said a teen social media ban would be the first domino to fall in a global push to rein in Big Tech, as Meta's Instagram, Facebook and Threads began locking out hundreds of thousands of accounts ahead of a deadline next week.
About 95,000 customers in Brisbane and other parts of Queensland faced an outage on Dec 3.
Humanitarian groups warned the scale of rescue and recovery efforts was unprecedented.
BEIJING, Dec 4 - French President Emmanuel Macron met Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing on Thursday, seeking stronger commercial ties, as the European Union prepares to toughen up its trade rules.
