BEIRUT - The Israeli military stepped up airstrikes in south Lebanon on Wednesday, killing at least one person as it pressed a campaign of near-daily attacks which it says is designed to block a military revival by Iran-backed Hezbollah in the border area.
An upright young samurai, a cross-dressing sword-wielding maiden, a retired warrior, honor killings, killings not-so-honorable and lovers of all kinds. Welcome to The Samurai Detectives, the first part of a series of popular historical mystery novels by Shōtarō Ikenami
SEOUL - A South Korean passenger ferry carrying 267 passengers and crew ran aground on Wednesday off the southwestern tip of the Korean peninsula, triggering a rescue operation and stirring memories of a major ferry disaster in 2014.
There are about 150,000 Facebook users aged between 13 and 15 in Australia, and 350,000 Instagram users.
Even a record US$15b seizure barely makes a dent in South-east Asia's sprawling "pig-butchering" empire.
The vessel remains stuck on a reef and unable to move, but there is no risk of sinking, the Coast Guard said.
The ferry was travelling from Jeju Island to Mokpo.
Investigators said the gummies contained more than 30 per cent sorbitol, an artificial sweetener with laxative effects.
KABUL/NEW DELHI - Afghanistan's Taliban trade minister arrived in India on Wednesday on a maiden visit to draw greater investments and goods as both countries consider ways to enhance their relations in the backdrop of souring relations with neighbouring Pakistan.
Piracy is a long-running problem for Japan’s internationally renowned manga industry.
VILNIUS - Lithuania will reopen its border crossings with Belarus, ending a closure imposed in response to airspace disruptions by smugglers' balloons, the Baltic republic's government said on Wednesday.
The authorities at Ngurah Rai airport in Bali said flight schedules were operating as usual so far.
BEIJING - The former chairman of New China Life Insurance, Li Quan, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve on corruption charges by a court in the Chinese province of Shandong, national broadcaster CCTV reported on Wednesday.
ANKARA/KYIV - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will hold talks in Turkey on Wednesday and meet U.S. Army officials in Kyiv on Thursday in a new drive to revive peace negotiations with Russia.
The images have prompted Tokyo to lodge a complaint with Beijing.
LONDON - British defence minister John Healey said on Wednesday that \"military options\" are ready should the Russian spy ship Yantar become a threat, after the vessel directed lasers at British pilots sent to monitor it.
The UK has announced much harsher rules for asylum seekers including the prospect of more deportations for those whose applications fail. The US is tripling the size of its deportation force. The EU is doubling its border budgets. And in the coming decades, hundreds of millions
The US and China are hurtling into a new era of airpower defined by pairing manned fighters with drones, with recent tests showing both sides racing to fuse drones with their most advanced fighters. This month, The War Zone reported that General Atomics disclosed that an MQ-20
BEIJING - Zambia will host a Chinese premier on Wednesday for the first time in 28 years as the sub-Saharan state emerges from a financial crisis, with Beijing eager to access commodities and develop a bigger market for its exporters.
MOSCOW - The Kremlin on Wednesday played down an Axios report that the United States was working on a 28-point peace plan for Ukraine and said there were no new developments to announce since an August summit between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.
The crackdown on Zion Church came after new rules banned unauthorised online preaching or religious training by clergy.
Indonesians insist they have a stronger claim to the durian amid Malaysia’s bid to make it its national fruit.
More than 400 Korean beauty brands are preparing to join the line-up.
At least 36 people died in the sinking on Nov 6.
Lebanese-French musician Omar Harfouch is one of two judges who resigned days before the finals in Thailand.
Local media say one person was killed in the fire in the city of Oita, on the Japanese island of Kyushu.
A constitutional amendment was approved, granting Field Marshal Asim Munir unprecedented immunity.
The International Crimes Tribunal of Bangladesh on Monday delivered a landmark verdict against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, finding her guilty of serious criminal offenses linked to the deadly political unrest that swept the country in July and August 2024. The tribunal
LONDON - The West's push to build a home-grown magnets supply chain to reduce its reliance on China - led by massive U.S. backing for Nevada-based MP Materials - is running into a critical problem: the scarcity of so-called heavy rare earth elements.
TOKYO — By taking a hard line on China, Japan’s Sanae Takaichi thinks she’s establishing her right-wing bona fides. In reality, she may be ensuring her premiership will be a brief one. Takaichi wasn’t chosen by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to stir a geopolitical hornet’s
TOKYO/BEIJING - China informed Japan on Wednesday that it will ban all imports of Japanese seafood, media outlets reported - a decision which comes amid an escalating diplomatic dispute between Asia's top two economies.
TOKYO - Within days of China urging its citizens not to travel to Japan due to a diplomatic dispute, Tokyo-based tour operator East Japan International Travel Service had lost 80% of its bookings for the remainder of the year.
WELLINGTON - New Zealand said on Wednesday it was banning new prescriptions of puberty blocking drugs for young transgender people, in a move that critics warned could worsen the mental health of those affected.
The import demand has helped reverse prices upward in 2025 against seasonal expectations.
Medical experts have said that impaired cognitive ability in old age is detrimental to one’s driving abilities.
The suspect behind the Nov 7 bomb attack at a school mosque in Jakarta wrote of feeling isolated and drew inspiration from a Telegram group glorifying white supremacist attacks, according to the police.
The proposed restart will be the first Tepco-operated nuclear plant since the Fukushima meltdown.
Beijing partially eased restrictions on Japanese seafood imports earlier in 2025.
Myanmar’s military descended on gambling and fraud hub Shwe Kokko on Nov 18.
MOSCOW - Russia's defence ministry said on Wednesday that Ukrainian forces had fired four U.S.-made ATACMS missiles at the southern Russian city of Voronezh in an attempted strike on civilian targets.
China has reportedly informed Japan that it will ban all imports of Japanese seafood.
BEIJING - Zambia will host a Chinese premier for the first time in 28 years as the sub-Saharan state emerges from a financial crisis, with Beijing eager to access the country's commodities and develop a bigger market for its exporters.
Tensions have arisen as hotels claim beaches and shorelines that belong to the state.