VATICAN CITY, March 7 - Pope Leo on Saturday named a senior Church diplomat who represented the Vatican in the Philippines during former President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs as the Vatican's U.S. ambassador and envoy to the Trump administration.
His music, which has drawn millions of views online, helped him cultivate a devoted following on social media.
TEL AVIV, March 7 - Lebanese Shi'ite militant group Hezbollah on Saturday warned residents of a northern Israeli city near the border with Lebanon to evacuate and head south.
SHANGHAI, March 7 - Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Saturday the military must be loyal to the Communist Party and root out corruption, according to a report by the official Xinhua news agency.
March 7 - President Donald Trump will host Latin American leaders in Florida on Saturday as his administration seeks to counter China's growing influence in the region, a diplomatic show just days after U.S. strikes on Iran opened a new front in the Middle East.
DUBAI, March 7 - Two influential and hardline Iranian clerics have called for the swift selection of a new supreme leader to help guide the nation amid a new wave of U.S. and Israeli strikes, Iranian media reported on Saturday.
India received the docking request for the Lavan on Feb 28, the day the Iran war started
The scale has become part of the attraction, and the walk itself as much a draw as the food.
Mr Shah’s party followed a carefully calibrated media strategy, with a major speech delivered every eight days.
With a record 12.7 million graduates entering the workforce this year amid slowing growth and AI disruption, youth employment took centre stage at a Two Sessions press conference.
At least 10 Asian migrant workers have been killed and dozens of others injured in the strikes so far.
Tokyo wants Washington to spare it from a planned tariff increase from 10 per cent to 15 per cent.
It said it prevented several acts of "terrorist" sabotage planned by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Arrested in February across several states, the youths were part of messaging groups that discussed plans to target police stations, government installations and places of worship in Malaysia, said the police chief in revealing the arrests on Friday (Mar 6).
Sanctions evasion has traditionally been viewed as a game of financial shell companies and hidden bank accounts. While those opaque traditional structures remain the bedrock of illicit finance, the mechanism has expanded to the blockchain at scale. Nation-states have upgraded
The Washington Post, AP and others have reported that Russia is providing Iran with intelligence to target US forces, including the locations of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East. This is plausible even if the disclosure is part of a broader gambit to rally
The President wants to meet Iran, an official said.
For much of the post–Cold War period, Central Asia operated as a “managed condominium”—a geopolitical arrangement where Russia supplied the hard-security umbrella and China functioned as the dominant economic partner. The war in Ukraine has not broken this Sino-Russian
Japan is considering a significant expansion of its military presence on remote Iwo Jima as growing Chinese naval activity beyond the First Island Chain raises concerns about the vulnerability of Pacific bases such as Okinawa. Japan’s Defense Ministry plans to study upgrades to
His party was also seemingly headed for a landslide victory nationally.
A minister in Prabowo Subianto’s Cabinet said separately that the president has received the backing from several Middle Eastern and other Islamic countries for the undertaking.
Stocks for power distributors and refineries have begun to falter.
WASHINGTON, March 6 - A Pakistani man was convicted on Friday of planning to kill President Donald Trump and other prominent U.S. politicians two years ago at the behest of Iran, the Department of Justice said.
According to the World Wide Fund for Nature, only 2,400 to 2,800 Sumatran elephants remain in the wild.
US President Donald Trump will meet with ideologically-aligned Latin American leaders to try and counter China's influence in the region.
China described the actions of its aircraft as “legitimate, reasonable and professional”.
The family of Daim Zainuddin, an influential two-time finance minister who died in November 2024, said in a statement it was "public knowledge" that the investigation targeted Daim's widow Na'imah Abdul Khalid and their sons.
The sinking of an Iranian ship by the US near Sri Lanka brings the conflict uncomfortably close to India.
To develop surveillance and defense systems that could be deployed in the Taiwan Strait, the Taiwanese government is working with dozens of international space‑technology startups while nurturing local firms. Supported by the Ministry of Economic Affairs’ Small and Medium
China has perfected the role of concerned onlooker as the Middle East conflict spreads across the region. Situated some 4,200 miles (6,800 kilometers) away from the action and with no direct role in the conflict, Beijing has a little more breathing room to work out the calculus
From sermons on AI to elimination rounds before dawn, sahur in Indonesia now includes must-watch TV.
The breakout followed the withdrawal of Kurdish forces overseeing the facility in January.
Its push for domestic spending will exceed efforts in 2025.
Corruption, red tape and entrenched officialdom has Liaoning one of the country’s toughest places to do business.
A US submarine sank the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena off the southern coast of Sri Lanka on Wednesday, killing 87 people. The submarine struck the ship with a torpedo, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, resulting in “quiet death”. The event marks the first time a US submarine
Votes counted so far show Balendra Shah and his Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) are on track to win the general election.
Teens are infuriating locals by riding over golf courses and doing wheelies on the Harbour Bridge.
WASHINGTON, March 6 - The United States is well on its way toward controlling Iranian airspace, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Friday, adding that Washington expects the achievable U.S. objectives to be completed in four to six weeks.
An internal cable shows the US fears Iran will use the sailors for propaganda purposes.
Fast-fashion brands around the world rely on South Asia for a steady stream of new T-shirts, dresses and jeans.
STOCKHOLM, March 6 - Denmark's government said on Friday that the ongoing turmoil in the Middle East may prevent some overseas votes in the country's March 24 general election from arriving in time to be counted.
US-Israel war with Iran cancels flights, stranding passengers as airlines scramble and fuel prices surge.
Speaking on Friday (Mar 6), Chinese commerce minister Wang Wentao outlined incentives aimed at drawing global businesses into China’s vast domestic market.
The Iranian ship IRIS Bushehr sought port entry in Sri Lanka after the vessel reported engine trouble.
BRUSSELS, March 6 - EU leaders Antonio Costa and Ursula von der Leyen will hold a video conference with Middle Eastern leaders on Monday to discuss the situation in the region, a spokesperson for Costa said on Friday.
"We are victims of a war that is not of our choosing," said President Ferdinand Marcos, adding: "But we control how we will protect the Filipino (people)."
The ongoing conflict in the Middle East has affected China's energy security, prompting a reassessment.