Feb 10 - Former lawyers for the white supremacist who killed 51 Muslim worshippers in New Zealand seven years ago told a court on Tuesday that he showed signs of anxiety during his original trial but did not appear to be depressed, media reported.
The affected stalls included clothing shops and were single-storey units with corrugated metal roofing.
The media mogul was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment on Feb 9.
The outcome is Liberal Democratic Party's best in its history.
Gains across world markets have brought some calm to trading floors after last week's asset-wide rollercoaster ride.
As the US races to deploy containerized drone swarms as a key future warfare element, the effort reveals questions about whether drones are a real revolution or a workaround for institutional limits. This month, The War Zone (TWZ) reported that the US military has launched a
Sabah continues to be identified as the region with the most active seismic activity.
China is urging its biggest banks to curb their exposure to US Treasuries, a calculated intervention in the plumbing of global finance that reveals something uncomfortable about where Asia believes risk now sits. Chinese regulators have instructed large banks to stop adding to
A 2024 report by Hindenburg Research described Roblox as an “X-rated paedophile hellscape”.
The Centrist Reform Alliance secured just 49 seats in the Feb 8 election.
Frontrunner parties in Bangladesh's upcoming election have historically had cooler ties with India.
DHAKA, Feb 10 - China’s influence in Bangladesh, boosted by the 2024 ouster of New Delhi‑aligned leader Sheikh Hasina, is likely to deepen after this week's election, although politicians and analysts say India is too large a neighbour to be sidelined completely.
Questions still remain over Mr Anutin’s ability to put the economy on a surer footing.
The use of AI is not leading to fewer people being trafficked into South-east Asia.
Feb 9 - A U.S. appeals court in California on Monday temporarily lifted a federal judge's order that had blocked the Trump administration from ending deportation protections for nearly 89,000 migrants from Honduras, Nepal and Nicaragua.
Why did a youthful, progressive party do so poorly compared to a transactional, old-style party?
SYDNEY, Feb 10 - Australian leaders on Tuesday urged calm and called on protests to remain peaceful after clashes between police and demonstrators opposing Israeli President Isaac Herzog's visit to Australia erupted in Sydney.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog was not present at the protest site.
Japan has been battling sluggish growth, mounting public debt and a rapidly ageing workforce.
Hong Kong media entrepreneur and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai Chee-ying was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment by a Hong Kong court on charges of colluding with foreign forces, partly because he had called on Washington to speak up for Hong Kong protesters and pressure
A landslide election win sets Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi up to be one of the strongest, most consequential leaders Japan has known for years, says Gearoid Reidy for Bloomberg Opinion.
In the high-stakes world of trade diplomacy, agreements are usually forged quietly through painstaking negotiations behind closed doors, dense legal texts and carefully calibrated “reciprocity” and “give and take.” The recently announced India-US “interim trade deal” departs
The People's Party lost 4.6 million party-list votes after backing Anutin as PM, seen as a betrayal by supporters.
The latest policy adjustment reads less like a crackdown than a structural re-ordering. On the surface, it tightens around cryptocurrency activity again. In design terms, it also places a second category inside a framework that can be defined, approved and supervised. The door
Can you remember how you felt when the last Winter Olympics opened? President Vladimir Putin certainly does, for February 4th 2022 saw him flying memorably to Beijing to meet President Xi Jinping, wishing China a successful Olympics and signing a joint statement pledging that
A Hong Kong court sentences the 78-year-old British citizen Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison after he was found guilty of national security offences last December.
But Beijing could be looking for a way to coexist peacefully with PM Takaichi, said one analyst.
LONDON, Feb 9 - The son of jailed Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai appealed to the British government on Monday to do \"much more\" to secure his elderly father's release and he criticised Prime Minister Keir Starmer's efforts to reset London's relations with Beijing.
If they are found guilty, they could face a lifetime ban on holding political office.
WASHINGTON, Feb 9 - U.S. military forces boarded a crude oil tanker in the Indian Ocean after pursuing it from the Caribbean, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Monday, accusing the vessel of breaching Washington's blockade on sanctioned vessels traveling to or from
BERLIN, Feb 9 - German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul will meet his counterparts from Central Asian countries in Berlin on Wednesday, said a ministry spokesperson, with themes including energy and Russian sanctions circumvention on the agenda.
Roblox faces increasing scrutiny globally as governments attempt to reduce online harm to children.
Sony had earlier ended production of Blu-ray recorders and ceased manufacturing recordable discs.
Lai's supporters say this amounts to a death sentence, but authorities say it demonstrates the rule of law.
NEW DELHI, Feb 9 - The United States and India have released an interim framework for a trade deal, paving the way for an agreement that would lower tariffs, reconfigure energy ties and deepen economic cooperation as both seek to realign global supply chains.
Japan is a parliamentary democracy; they have a prime minister rather than a president. So when Takaichi Sanae became prime minister last October, it was because she won an internal party election, not because she received the mandate of the people. This was a problem for her,
BERLIN, Feb 9 - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will lead a sizeable U.S. delegation to the Munich Security Conference starting on Friday, underscoring the importance of transatlantic relations despite a \"crisis of trust\", the head of the forum said.
LONDON, Feb 9 - Britain said it was expanding its visa route for those who want to move from Hong Kong to the United Kingdom, in reaction to the sentencing of Jimmy Lai, the Asian city's most vocal China critic, to 20 years in jail.
Anutin Charnvirakul’s Bhumjaithai Party emerged as the clear winner in a general election shaped by local politics, coalition-building and voters wary of the risks of reform, say analysts.
Peter Conti-Brown, a historian of the Federal Reserve at the Wharton School, recently issued a clear warning: the politicization of monetary institutions poses a serious threat to modern democracies. Such unease is emerging in today’s Indonesia. In a Financial Times interview,
Critics say enforcing laws alone will not resolve longstanding disputes and risks fuelling religious tensions.
Protesters gathered in Sydney and Melbourne to demand an end to Israel’s “occupation” of Palestine.
With 2.2% GDP growth estimated for 2025, Thailand’s economy has lagged behind regional peers.
Sanitisation and thorough cleaning will be carried out in areas identified as high risk.
Political analysts view Sanae Takaichi’s decisive election victory as a sign voters want stability and strong leadership amid economic pressures.
TOKYO, Feb 9 - Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi renewed a pledge on Monday to cut a sales tax on food, after a historic election win brightened chances for stimulus measures that have rattled financial markets.