DAMASCUS, July 6 - French President Emmanuel Macron landed in Syria on Monday, Syria's state news agency reported, in the first visit to Damascus by a European Union head of state since rebels led by President Ahmed al-Sharaa toppled Bashar al-Assad in 2024.
Officials raised the emergency response in Nanning, Guangxi’s capital, to the highest level after torrential rain breached dams.
Research warns that Thailand, Vietnam and other parts of ASEAN could be hit hard by El Nino.
BAKU, July 6 - Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry said on Monday it had summoned Russia's ambassador to protest against what it said was a Russian drone strike on a fuel station belonging to state oil and gas company SOCAR in Ukraine's Mykolaiv region on Sunday.
ISLAMABAD, July 6 - Pakistan has quietly begun mediating between Libya's rival eastern and western power centres, two Pakistani sources said, in a previously unreported Pakistani effort that would further raise its diplomatic profile if it succeeds.
The car in the video is believed to be a Malaysian car.
They will exchange critical information and deepen collaboration in cutting-edge fields.
Interplanetary travel to Mars aboard nuclear-powered spaceships may sound like science fiction – yet NASA is planning to make it a reality. The Space Reactor-1 Freedom mission is scheduled for launch by December 2028 to explore Mars, with NASA heralding it as “the first
MOSCOW, July 6 - Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Monday that he hoped the South Caucasus country could mend its relationship with Russia and resolve certain \"problematic issues\" which have arisen recently.
When South Korea’s chip giant SK Hynix launches its planned US$29 billion US listing, investors will tell themselves they’re buying one of the world’s most important semiconductor companies. But what they will really be buying is a rosy artificial intelligence forecast.
Yang Youlin illegally accepted money and property while holding various government posts
BEIJING, July 6 - A Chinese court on Monday sentenced Yang Youlin, a former senior local official in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing, to death over corruption while also convicting him of abuse of power and money laundering among other charges, a court statement showed.
The two days of violence at Negombo Prison are the worst prison riots in the country in years.
In May, the yield on Japan’s ten-year government bond touched 2.8%, its highest level in nearly three decades. For a market that spent a generation anchored near zero, this was not a technical adjustment — it was a tremor that reverberated across the Pacific: as Japanese yields
MOSCOW, July 6 - The Kremlin said that joint naval drills between Russia and China which kicked off on Monday in the waters and airspace off the Chinese city of Qingdao were not directed against any other country and would boost regional security.
Prime Minister Lawrence Wong and President Prabowo Subianto also addressed the Middle East conflict's implications for regional shipping lanes at their Jakarta meeting.
SRINAGAR, India, July 6 - India's anti-terrorism agency said it filed charges on Monday against Hafiz Saeed, founder of Pakistan-based Islamist militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), over an attack on tourists in Indian Kashmir last year that triggered a conflict with Pakistan.
New Delhi has accused Pakistan of backing the attack, claims Islamabad has repeatedly denied.
Kang Hee-su, whose voice has guided passengers on Seoul Subway Lines 1 to 8 since 1996, died in Seoul on July 4.
DUBAI, July 6 - Two Britons jailed in Iran on espionage charges are maintaining a hunger strike over prison conditions and have been denied adequate medical care and contact with their families, U.S.-based Iranian human rights news agency HRANA reported on Monday.
The touts charged exorbitant fees for transport to Kuala Lumpur.
It is ironic to see the Islamic Republic of Iran burying its slain supreme leader and the United States celebrating its 250th independence anniversary in the same week. Both sides have used mourning and commemoration occasions to claim victory in a war that has led to a fragile
The wounded were rushed to the Negombo hospital, about 35km north of the capital Colombo, following overnight clashes between inmates from two drug gangs at the area's main prison, police said.
Back in the 2010s, a lot of people marveled at China’s seemingly recession-proof economy. Throughout the global financial crisis of 2008 and the Chinese stock market crash and capital flight of 2015, the country never recorded a single quarter of negative economic growth.
COLOMBO, July 6 - Twenty-five people were killed and about 100 injured as security officials struggled to contain two days of clashes between rival groups of inmates at a prison in Sri Lanka, authorities said on Monday, marking the deadliest such violence in years.
The commitment emerged after talks between PM Lawrence Wong and President Prabowo Subianto at the Leaders’ Retreat.
Initial investigations found that the bird’s nests were intended for export to other countries.
Maysak made landfall in the southern island province of Hainan last Friday (Jul 3), the first tropical cyclone to reach the Chinese mainland this year.
GENEVA, July 6 - The U.N. Human Rights Council on Monday passed a motion condemning the escalating violence committed by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan's al-Obeid and setting up an urgent inquiry into alleged abuses there.
For more than a decade, Indonesia has measured its economic partnership with China in dollars and cents. The numbers are certainly impressive: Chinese companies have poured billions into nickel processing, industrial estates, power plants and, more recently, electric vehicle
LONDON, July 6 - Britain said its aircraft carrier in the Norwegian Sea was repeatedly approached by a Russian patrol aircraft, before being escorted away by UK fighter jets, in the latest incident risking a potential escalation between NATO and Russia.
Fighting began on the evening of July 5 at the Negombo Prison, which houses thousands of inmates.
The victim recognised the student who was accused of stabbing her.
The two countries signed a series of pacts at their annual Leaders' Retreat, highlighting a push to deepen economic ties.
“We want Indonesia to succeed because our futures are closely linked. And our confidence in Indonesia is reflected in our actions,” says Prime Minister Lawrence Wong.
The app’s operator, verifies applicants’ apartment residency through resident registration records.
The weather office has issued a red alert warning for Mumbai on Monday, forecasting continued heavy rain and gusty winds.
Launched in May 2025, this is China's first mission to collect samples from an asteroid.
It is the first bilateral space agency agreement between Singapore and Japan.
Across the Indo-Pacific, governments are increasing defense spending, strengthening alliances, and placing renewed emphasis on deterrence. Strategic competition has once again become the defining feature of international politics. And in such an environment, international law
A nuclear submarine of the People's Liberation Army Navy launched the missile carrying a dummy warhead toward international waters in the Pacific at 12.01pm, China's official Xinhua news agency reported.
So far one breach has been reported at a medium-sized reservoir in Nanning’s Hengzhou.
He had used a program he created with the assistance of ChatGPT to disrupt the Bandai Channel streaming service.
KUALA LUMPUR, July 6 - A Malaysian parliamentary committee will hold a hearing on July 16 to discuss a $96 million rare earths supply deal signed between Australia's Lynas Rare Earths and the U.S. Department of Defense earlier this year, a senior lawmaker said on Monday.
Rebels, defectors and former insiders are introducing complications for political coalitions in Johor.
The order comes days after the BBC published an investigation about the platform showing such ads to users.
