The Federal Reserve on September 17, 2025, cut its target interest rate as it shifts focus from fighting inflation to supporting the choppy labor market. As financial markets expected, the Fed lowered rates a quarter point to a range of 4% to 4.25%, its first cut since December
TAIPEI - Taiwan opened its largest arms fair on Thursday, with about double its previous number of exhibitors, as firms flock for a slice of the island's increased defence spending at a time when it is looking to expand international military cooperation.
The country is one of the world's biggest carbon emitters per capita.
Chinese defence minister Dong Jun opened the Xiangshan Forum in Beijing on Thursday, attended by 1,800 delegates from nearly 100 countries.
US-sanctioned Huawei is playing a leading role in finding solutions that can empower China’s AI ambitions without relying on foreign tech.
There were 237 cases of kidnapping, abduction and human trafficking in the first eight months of 2025.
The tragic deaths of Charlie Kirk and Iryna Zarutska are not isolated events. They are stark indicators of a nation in moral decline where freedom is under attack, empathy is eroding and digital platforms are amplifying both threats. This crisis is not solely of our own making.
He faces 27 charges which allege that he indecently assaulted or groped nine men from 2001 to 2019.
TOKYO - Sanae Takaichi, a veteran Japanese lawmaker and fiscal dove, said on Thursday she would run in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party leadership race on October 4 to replace outgoing Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba. Takaichi, who hopes to become Japan's first female
This will be the first such tax of its kind at the prefectural level.
The government is working with the importer and retailer of the nappies to trace and treat affected nappies.
The church is accused of bribing former first lady Kim Keon Hee with Chanel bags and a diamond necklace.
Surprisingly, investors around the world have largely overlooked the positive mood music emerging from US–China trade negotiations. Markets everywhere have yet to price in the upside. This complacency is striking as the two largest economies inch toward a trade settlement that
Australia’s goals are above those of Canada and neighbouring New Zealand, but below Britain.
They accuse the manufacturers of doing "nothing" despite being aware of the plane's risks.
A growing number of sons of the country’s powerful family-run conglomerates are choosing longer military service.
The US Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point and indicated it will steadily lower borrowing costs for the rest of this year.
This comes amid wider concerns of an expansion of the military's involvement in civilian affairs under President Prabowo Subianto.
Most Western nations have sent relatively low-level diplomatic representatives to the forum.
BEIJING - China's defence minister on Thursday urged greater efforts for global unity, warning against an increasingly divided world \"defined by the rule of the jungle\".
In Kerala this year, more than 70 people have been diagnosed and 19 have died from the brain-eating amoeba.
An unusually fierce monsoon has derailed daily life more than ever in the South East Asian nation.
Turkish arms deals and deployment by Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines have made the news recently, putting the spotlight on this non-traditional source of weapons.
The June 12 crash of an Air India Boeing 787 killed 260 people.
DUBAI/ISLAMABAD - Saudi Arabia and nuclear-armed Pakistan signed a formal mutual defense pact on Wednesday, in a move that significantly strengthens a decades-long security partnership amid heightened regional tensions.
KABUL - The Taliban administration on Wednesday announced an internet ban across a swathe of northern Afghanistan, \"to prevent immoral activities\", provincial government statements said.
It is first such internet ban since the Taliban took over Afghanistan in 2021.
Is Russia heading the way of the Soviet Union in 1991? This would indeed be ironic as Vladimir Putin loathes Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsyn, blaming them for the biggest geopolitical disaster of the twentieth century: the collapse of the country for which the current
Tear gas and rubber bullets threatens a fragile truce reached in July.
The Pacific Islands Forum wrapped up its annual leaders meeting last week with some significant agreements, including the launch of the region’s own climate financing facility, the endorsement of the Ocean of Peace declaration and policies on partnerships and broader
KYIV - The first weapons supplies under a new programme agreed by the U.S. and Ukraine's European allies will include highly valuable missiles for NASAMS and Patriot air defence systems, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday.
The mainland is the source of the city’s biggest opportunities in a changing world, said Chief Exec John Lee.
This came amid political pressure urging the Chief Justice to resign from the post.
Pachycephalosaurs, two-legged plant eaters known for their bony dome-shaped skulls, are among the quirkiest dinosaurs known, and also among the least understood. A fossil found peeking out of a cliffside in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia - the oldest and most complete of any
A quarter of all men are still working at age 70, up from one in 10 men some two decades ago, an analysis showed.
Taliban officials say the ban is a campaign against “vice”.
The MyNIISe app will reduce congestion at the two Johor checkpoints, where more than 300,000 people cross daily.
Both leaders also reiterated their commitment to continuing frequent military-to-military interactions.
BISHKEK - A court in Kyrgyzstan sentenced two former video editors of the independent outlet Kloop, Zhoomart Duulatov and Alexander Alexandrov, to five years in prison on Wednesday on charges of spreading false information and undermining public order.
The new hub would aim to house businesses and 2.5 million people between Hong Kong and Shenzhen.
BRUSSELS - The European Commission on Wednesday proposed suspending a trade arrangement affecting about 5.8 billion euros ($6.87 billion) of Israeli exports due to the Gaza war, although the measure does not currently have enough support among EU nations to pass.
BRUSSELS - The European Commission set out plans on Wednesday to deepen cooperation with India in fields such as defence, technology and trade, despite tensions over New Delhi's close ties to Moscow.
At least 23 Cambodians were injured in the incident.
The Philippines will keep up patrols in the area despite China’s nature reserve claim over the disputed reef.
Taiwan is racing to bolster its armed forces to counter China's military threat.
DUBAI - Saudi Arabia on Wednesday condemned \"in the strongest terms\" the Israeli ground operation in Gaza City, a day after Israel unleashed a long-threatened ground assault on the enclave.
DUBAI - Saudi Arabia on Wednesday condemned \"in the strongest terms\" the Israeli ground operation in Gaza City, a day after Israel unleashed a long-threatened ground assault on the enclave.
Factory output and retail sales rose last month at their slowest pace in around a year.