ANKARA, May 11 - Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan will visit Qatar on Tuesday for talks on the Iran war, its impact on the Gulf and efforts to ensure navigational safety in the Strait of Hormuz, a Turkish diplomatic source said on Monday.
With deep knowledge of the active volcano, villagers living in the shadows of Dukono were instrumental in the search and recovery of three people killed on its slope, say authorities.
A body found in New South Wales is thought to be that of a man wanted over a triple murder.
Lovebugs are expected to reach adulthood en masse in South Korea between June 15 and 29.
Her allies have moved to tighten their grip on the Senate ahead of a looming trial that could affect her 2028 presidential bid.
If convicted in a Senate trial, which is uncertain, she will be disqualified from running for president.
The figures are the latest sign of China’s deepening demographic challenges.
HONG KONG, May 11 - Marriage registrations in China fell 6.2% year on year in the first quarter and are about half 2017 levels, official data show, underscoring the demographic strain in a country where childbearing remains closely tied to marriage.
Four months have passed since US forces captured Venezuela’s sitting president, Nicolás Maduro, and ousted him from power. Maduro’s vice-president, Delcy Rodriguez, quickly moved into the top job and has, under US tutelage, begun a process of reversing her country’s experiment
Taiwan is excluded from most international organisations because of objections from Beijing.
BEIJING/TAIPEI, May 11 - China said on Monday it would not allow Taiwan to take part in the annual assembly of the World Health Organisation (WHO), which starts next week, as Taiwan said it would send a delegation anyway for meetings outside the actual event.
BEIJING, May 11 - Chinese and U.S. anti-narcotics authorities arrested five suspects and seized a batch of drugs in a joint investigation of a drug smuggling and trafficking case, China's state-run news agency Xinhua reported on Monday.
Cheap Chinese EVs could devastate American carmakers and manufacturing jobs, they warn.
Tehran’s reply on May 10 was entirely predictable. Ceasefire, security guarantees for the Strait, total sanctions relief, reparations — the standard package. What apparently surprised Washington was the timing, which produced President Donald Trump’s terse verdict: “totally
Police arrested 321 people in the West Jakarta raid on May 7 and 210 people in the May 6 Batam raid. Many were foreigners who reportedly entered Indonesia using its visa-free or visa-on-arrival facilities.
In recent days, India has announced a slew of defense launches, demonstrating the emergence of a new strategic doctrine in which manufacturing capability, technological self-reliance and national security are becoming intertwined. From intercontinental ballistic missile-class
Azam Bak’s term ends on Tuesday (May 12), with former High Court judge Abdul Halim Aman set to replace him.
SEOUL, May 11 - South Korea's presidential Blue House on Monday condemned in the strongest terms an attack against a cargo ship operated by a Korean shipper this month in the Strait of Hormuz and said it plans to respond once the source of the attack is identified.
ASEAN is suffering from a fraying consensus over Myanmar, analysts say.
Some contractors have halted work as rising costs make construction projects no longer profitable.
NEW DELHI, May 11 - India and Peru will probably hold the next round of talks on a proposed free trade pact next month, a senior Peruvian diplomat told Reuters, adding that a deal could be signed by the end of the year.
The teahouse hopes to stage themed raves every month, tapping into a global Gen Z trend.
The finest backhanded compliment I receive, and the one I receive most often, is: “Good piece; I actually understood this one.” A title like the one above is, on that evidence, an act of commercial self-harm. It guarantees that many readers will not open the essay, and that
Nearly 10 per cent of 1,396 items surveyed had immediate price adjustments.
Marriage registration slots for May 20 are fully booked in several major cities in China.
Beijing has avoided engaging Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party, which it sees as promoting independence, maintaining ties instead with the more China-friendly Kuomintang.
Indonesia is entering a critical test of its fiscal resilience. Beneath the government’s optimistic narrative of a stable economic growth rate of around 5% lies a structural anomaly carrying significant systemic risks. The accumulation of central government debt, now edging
The Vatican is one of only 12 countries to maintain formal diplomatic ties with Taipei.
The first US presidential visit to China in almost 10 years will test a fragile tariff truce.
The riot started after host Perspira Jayapura lost 1-0 to guest PS Adhyaksa Banten.
The country’s standing forces have shrunk by 20 per cent in the past six years to 450,000.
TAIPEI, May 11 - Taiwan's coast guard said on Monday that it had disrupted \"illegal\" operations by a Chinese research ship in waters close to the island and driven it away, part of what Taipei sees a provocative pattern of China's stepped up maritime activities.
WELLINGTON, May 11 - New Zealand state-owned farming enterprise Pamu says it plans to convert 600 hectares (1,483 acres) of farmland into native forest to generate high-quality nature credits, following a government move on Monday to support a voluntary nature credits market.
There is a familiar parlor game underway in Washington and Tel Aviv, played with renewed enthusiasm now that Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid have once again merged their parties under the banner Beyachad, and the polls are showing — as they have for months — that Benjamin
Prime Minister Modi’s party expands reach, leaving India’s fractured opposition struggling.
A Dutch expedition cruise ship, the MV Hondius, docked in Tenerife on Sunday after weeks adrift with three deaths and eight hantavirus cases on board. The strain involved is the Andes virus, the only hantavirus known to transmit between humans. The World Health Organization has
KATHMANDU, May 11 - A minor fire broke out on a tyre of a Turkish Airlines plane after it landed on Monday in Nepal's capital of Kathmandu, authorities said, forcing the closure of the airport for an hour.
The fire forced the closure of the airport for an hour.
A conviction in the Senate would ban her from politics for life and remove her from office.
Pakistan’s new Fatah-3 missile may signal the emergence of Islamabad as China’s frontline broker for conventionally armed counterforce warfare from Kashmir to the Persian Gulf. This month, multiple defense outlets reported that Pakistan publicly unveiled the Fatah-3 supersonic
Thailand is facing its most severe and difficult-to-predict climate variability in several years.
When President Donald Trump arrives in Beijing this week for talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the choreography will almost certainly be familiar: firm handshakes, oversized rhetoric, carefully calibrated symbolism and declarations about “historic” economic
SYDNEY/WELLINGTON, May 11 - The Australian government said on Monday it would repatriate its citizens from a Dutch-flagged luxury cruise ship hit by a deadly strain of hantavirus, with the passengers to be quarantined after they arrive in the country.
It is not known if any of those being brought to Australia have fallen ill.
The idea appeared in an online comic nearly a decade ago.
A QR code tracking system allows buyers to trace each fruit orchard within seconds.
The issue of democratically governed Taiwan is certain to come up during the Trump-Xi summit.