After one year in office, the Trump administration’s foreign policy has drawn mostly negative reviews. Major efforts to bring peace to both Eastern Europe and the Middle East—both admittedly tall orders—have resulted in meager progress. That is to say nothing of the intense
No schools in Johor have been instructed to close for now.
The appointments come just months after Malaysia narrowly avoided a judicial crisis in July last year.
Zhang Youxia, widely seen as Xi's closest military ally, was in January removed from his post.
A disputed Chinese nuclear test has become the latest stress test for a global arms control system already coming apart. At the Conference on Disarmament, the US accused China this month of carrying out a covert nuclear explosive test in June 2020. The allegation came just a
One senior spent 10,000 yuan (S$1,820) tipping streamers within a month.
Cambodia does not have a comprehensive set of laws to address crimes related to scams.
As at Nov 19, 2025, safety audits had been carried out at 1,758 schools .
Police and protesters clashed in Sydney on the evening of Feb 9, with 27 arrested.
SYDNEY, Feb 12 - Pro-Palestine protesters will rally in Melbourne on Thursday on the final day of Israeli President Isaac Herzog's trip to Australia, following protests in the capital Canberra and violent clashes between protesters and police in Sydney.
A new leader is set to be chosen on Feb 13 between Mr Junya Ogawa and Mr Takeshi Shina.
The operation to contain the fire is ongoing.
No tangible progress has been made between the US and North Korea since a 2019 summit collapsed.
Members of the public raised concerns on social media about possible irregularities in the vote count and small protests erupted nationwide, with a trending Thai hashtag #RecountForTheWholeCountry.
Police shot and arrested the suspect, whom local media identified as an 18-year-old man.
BANGKOK, Feb 12 - A female teacher died on Thursday in southern Thailand's Hat Yai district after a gunman opened fire at a school where she worked, the provincial administration said on social media.
The island supports its semiconductor companies investing overseas, including in Europe.
He insisted on the need for Taiwan to dramatically shore up its defences.
He said he had brought a “message of goodwill to the people of Australia”.
A total of 51 models across the three companies will be affected by the recall.
However, progress remains fragile and it is not yet clear that emissions have peaked.
The sector is reliant on low-paid migrants and plagued by a high accident rate.
A Thai soldier was seriously injured in the blast.
The contest pits two coalitions led by former allies, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and the Islamist Jamaat‑e‑Islami.
Mr Angus Taylor quit as shadow defence minister on the evening of Feb 11.
SYDNEY, Feb 12 - Australia's opposition leader Sussan Ley is facing a possible leadership challenge less than a year into the role, after a senior figure in her shadow cabinet resigned saying she was not the right person to lead the conservative Liberal Party.
WASHINGTON, Feb 11 - The U.S. State Department has begun paying Afghans to repatriate as it attempts to close a camp in Qatar where they have been stranded for years, the top State Department official for South and Central Asia told lawmakers on Wednesday.
The bid by Sunway for IJM is also presenting a policy challenge for Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, who has expressed reservations about the proposed takeover in private sessions, his close associates told CNA.
Scam groups are continuing to recruit former workers trapped inside the country, say researchers.
This article originally published by Pacific Forum is republished with permission. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi notched a historic election win last weekend. The first woman to head a party ticket in national elections in Japan led her ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to
Gyalo Thondup, who died on February 8, 2026, at 97 at the Indian hill station Kalimpong, carried with him secrets of a vanished era — and a warning for the present one. As the elder brother of the 14th Dalai Lama and a principal architect of the Tibetan resistance, Thondup
The current United States-China relationship is described by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent as “productive” and “in a very comfortable place” after last week’s two-hour phone call between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. “The US relationship with
OSLO, Feb 11 - The Norwegian Nobel Committee said on Wednesday that it had called on Iran to immediately free activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi from prison.
Wang was detained by authorities in the country more than a year ago in relation to probes into the drugmaker’s business.
LONDON, Feb 11 - Defence minister John Healey said on Wednesday Britain had committed 150 million pounds ($205 million) to the so-called Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) initiative to supply Ukraine with U.S. weapons.
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan, Feb 11 - Militants killed five police officers in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, police said, as the South Asian nation grapples with a rising wave of Islamist violence.
The first meeting is scheduled to take place on Feb 19 in Washington.
The suspect has been detained and all hostages freed after a two-hour standoff at a school in southern Thailand, police said.
ALMATY, Feb 11 - Kazakhstan on Wednesday announced a March 15 referendum on a new constitution that could allow President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, currently barred from ruling beyond 2029, to remain at the helm of Central Asia's largest economy.
WASHINGTON — A handful of House Republicans tanked a procedural vote Tuesday night that would have kept intact a ban on congressional action against President Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs. Republican Reps. Don Bacon of Nebraska, Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Kevin Kiley of
MOSCOW, Feb 11 - Two Russian airlines plan to fly Russian tourists out of Cuba in the coming days and then suspend operations until a jet fuel shortage eases, aviation regulator Rosaviatsia said on Wednesday.
The mother gave her sons a liquid form of methadone.
Members of both the ruling coalition and the opposition have raised questions about Mr Azam’s assets.
Panama’s supreme court invalidated a contract in late January that had allowed Panama Ports Company, a subsidiary of Hong Kong-based firm CK Hutchison, to operate two ports on the Panama canal since 1997. The decision, which ruled that the laws allowing the firm to operate the
The suspect entered the school demanding to see a specific teacher and upon not being able to find the person, the suspect shot a school staff member, according to an official.
Indonesia is preparing to deploy up to 4,000 troops to Gaza, a senior official told ST.