SEOUL, June 12 - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent a congratulatory message to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Russia’s National Day, voicing full support for Moscow’s domestic and foreign policies, state media KCNA said on Friday.
Li-Ning’s reported US$400 million deal isn’t just about selling sports shoes, analysts say - it’s about leveraging one of basketball’s biggest and most influential athletes to raise its global profile.
Contamination linked to mining in Myanmar is raising fears over food safety, shrinking incomes and long-term health risks for people in Thailand who depend on the Mekong’s tributaries, CNA’s Insight finds.
Cattle trade, slaughter and consumption is highly contentious in India, often resulting in mob violence and lynching.
Indie cafe culture is spreading across Pahang, reshaping how people gather and socialise.
Jakarta's move reflects a broader recognition that isolation alone has not delivered progress, say analysts.
Shares in China’s biggest e-commerce companies fell on Thursday after Beijing’s market regulator summoned five of the country’s largest online shopping platforms over deceptive promotional practices ahead of the annual “618” (June 18) shopping festival. Alibaba’s Hong
In the 1950s and 1960s, a massive wave of underground humor swept across the USSR and the Eastern Bloc featuring a fictional broadcaster called Armenian Radio (known in the West as Radio Yerevan). Many of the jokes involved food lines and food scarcity, a fact of Soviet life.
Rebiya Kadeer tells RFA she wants scrutiny of the legal process, key evidence of 2015 Erawan Shrine bombing.
LONDON, June 11 - After watching images of masked groups rampaging through the streets of Belfast — some targeting the homes and businesses of those believed to be immigrants — members of the city’s ethnic minority communities say they are afraid to leave their homes.
WASHINGTON, June 11 - Dozens of U.S. lawmakers urged President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday to roll back any plans to ship to unsafe third countries Afghan nationals who worked with U.S. forces during the war in their homeland.
While promising more strikes against Iran on Thursday, President Donald Trump suggested that the US would soon be “taking” Kharg Island in a bid to seize “total control” of the country’s oil and gas market. That’s an operation that would likely require ground troops. “The
DAKAR/NAIROBI, June 11 - The Trump administration plans to deport a number of Iranians and other migrants to Central African Republic, a chronically unstable country racked by violence and poverty, two lawyers and an official briefed on the matter told Reuters.
The Federal Reserve is under new leadership. Kevin Warsh, Donald Trump’s appointee to succeed Jerome Powell as chair, was confirmed by the Senate on May 13. He will preside over his first meeting of the Fed’s interest-rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee on June 16 and
ATHENS, June 11 - Greek judges on Thursday ordered the detention pending trial of a Palestinian accused of being part of a Hamas-linked network plotting attacks on Israeli targets in Europe and Asia, legal and police sources said.
As temperatures in the village of Bemani, Iran, near the Strait of Hormuz, reached above 100°F this week, two water facilities were struck by bombs, cutting off the drinking water supply for 20,000 people in the area. An analysis by The New York Times late Wednesday indicated
Teodoro and his spouse and child will be banned from entering China’s mainland, Hong Kong and Macau.
The bones had been illegally taken from Mongolia in 2006.
Fuel price jump triggers queues, cost concerns and policy debate in Indonesia.
Some of the goods were seized at border crossings connecting Hong Kong with mainland China.
Factory management transferred chemical waste into a scrubber to prevent further release of substances.
Kim Jong Un earlier called for an “exponential” expansion of the country’s nuclear forces.
June 11 - China cancelled at short notice two diplomatic meetings planned with the European Union in Beijing this month, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.
The synthetic drug, a mixture of fentanyl and psychoactive chemicals, could cause severe intoxication and leave users in a “zombie-like” state, Malaysia’s deputy inspector-general of police Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay said.
LONDON/NEW DELHI, June 11 - India's shipping ministry said all 20 Indian crew members were safe after a suspected U.S. strike on the asphalt tanker Jalveer off Oman on Thursday following two similar strikes involving Indian crews in the region this week.
LONDON/NEW DELHI, June 11 - A U.S. jet fired two missiles into the engine room of the tanker Jalveer off Oman on Thursday, U.S. Central Command confirmed, as authorities said the 20 crew members were safe after the third strike on Indian-crewed tankers this week.
The other motorcyclist who crashed into him suffered fractures and is receiving treatment at a hospital.
As India’s stealth fighter gap widens, Russia is pitching the Su-57 as a solution — but production realities may tell a different story. This month, Defense News reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin renewed his offer of unrestricted joint production and technology
NEW DELHI, June 11 - Three Indian sailors have died in a U.S. military operation to halt a tanker off Oman as part of Washington’s efforts to blockade Iran-linked shipping, Indian authorities said on Thursday.
The United States has launched new airstrikes across Iran this week as President Donald Trump, losing patience over the protracted negotiations to end the war, has leaned into violence to ratchet up the pressure on the Iranian leadership. The US secretary of defence, Pete
Recovery operations have been complicated by more than 2,000 aftershocks since the quake, some reaching magnitudes as high as 6.4.
MUMBAI, June 11 - India is expected to receive below-average rainfall over the next two weeks, especially in central and northern regions, as \"western disturbances\" have slowed the progress of the annual monsoon, two senior weather bureau officials said on Thursday.
President Prabowo Subianto has gone on more than 50 overseas trips to over 20 countries in less than two years in office, far more than his predecessors.
BEIJING/PARIS, June 11 - Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing will attend a video conference hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron on global economic imbalances on Thursday, days before G7 countries meet in France to discuss how to deal with waves of low-priced Chinese
While hot saunas and cold baths may create a sought-after sensation, researchers say it also carries risks.
MUZAFFARABAD, June 11 - At least 22 personnel were killed in Wednesday's military helicopter crash in Pakistani Kashmir, security sources said on Thursday, as funeral processions were held in the territory's capital Muzaffarabad.
The controversy erupted during South Korea’s June 3 local elections.
This comes a day after the bodies of six men from the rival Naga community were recovered.
GUWAHATI, India, June 11 - At least two people from the Kuki community were killed in attacks by armed men in India's restive state of Manipur on Thursday, two senior police officers said, a day after authorities recovered the bodies of six men from the rival Naga community,
The two players drowned during a team-building exercise in a coastal province on June 8.
MANILA, June 11 - Philippine law enforcement launched on Thursday an investigation into the deaths of two student athletes from a top university basketball team, in a case that has drawn widespread attention in a country where the sport is hugely popular.
Beijing's market watchdog also summoned representatives from social media sites Douyin and RedNote.
The 55-year-old was a suspect in a series of large-scale drug-smuggling operations.
Indonesia’s emergency interest rate hike and efforts to support the rupiah may have helped calm markets for now, but economists say investor confidence will not fully return unless the government addresses deeper concerns.
It remains unclear whether the US coffee chain can fully restore its brand image.
On March 24, 2026, the Philippines declared a state of national energy emergency — the first country in the world to do so in response to the Middle East conflict and the disruption of the Strait of Hormuz. The declaration highlighted a structural exposure that many countries
Indonesia's dependence on Singapore stems from the island state’s position as Southeast Asia’s primary digital hub, hosting major subsea cable networks - cables laid on the seabed between land-based stations - data centres and global cloud services.
