Israel’s opposition parties appeared to have secured enough Knesset seats in Tuesday’s elections to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from power and end a four-year reign marked by genocidal war in Gaza and escalating terror and dispossession against Palestinians in the
Kyaw Moe Tun - Myanmar's representative to the UN - makes an emotional appeal after saying the international community had failed the country's people.
Of all the leaders of America’s allies, from Europe to Asia, no one has invested more in seeking the favor of Donald Trump than Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae. She has met Trump three times in person during her first year in office and offered up tens of billions in
The controversial three-second clip shows paramedics performing CPR on an injured person.
On Monday, the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement did something a defense treaty is not usually built to do. Its members went to Tehran to talk. Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman, Pakistan’s Field Marshal Asim Munir and Turkey’s intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalın met
TOKYO, Oct 28 - Germany is examining whether it could play a role in the GCAP fighter jet programme led by Japan, Italy and Britain, Chancellor Friedrich Merz said in Tokyo on Wednesday, after a rival Franco-German initiative collapsed earlier this year.
The total value of all items seized was estimated at RM401,700 (S$126,390).
Oct 28 - The United States imposed sanctions on Wednesday to target what the Treasury Department said were North Korean government-run schemes that use IT workers to defraud US businesses and generate revenue for Pyongyang's weapons programs.
The largely peaceful protest included participants from various universities and civil society groups.
Both sides grappling with issues such as gas cuts, power exports and haze.
The task force would facilitate information-sharing and help authorities in their work.
DUBAI, Oct 28 - Iranian families are cutting back on food, housing and education as the eight-month-old war with the United States fuels one of the country's worst inflation surges in decades, eroding incomes and pushing households to the brink.
Protesters flocked to two of Jakarta’s busiest thoroughfares, carrying banners critical of President Prabowo Subianto’s policies.
Battlefield robots were once thought of as the stuff of science fiction. But the Ukraine war has put paid to that view, with uncrewed ground vehicles (UGVs) – or ground robots – taking on an increasingly visible role. In September 2026, Mykhailo Fedorov, the former defense
The operator of the Villa Vie Odyssey said high fuel prices had made operations prohibitively expensive.
Confiscated assets will go towards compensating scam victims, says anti-money laundering official.
Airlines that hedge at current elevated prices risk being locked into expensive fuel if geopolitical tensions ease and prices retreat.
Parents concerned about their children’s health can choose not to send them to school.
TOKYO — When America’s AI bubble bursts, it will be a bad day for Nvidia and Intel. In Seoul, Taipei and Tokyo, it will be a national crisis. AI has become, almost overnight, what China once was for Asia: the growth engine everyone depends on. Investors from South Korea to
SHANGHAI, Oct 28 - Real Madrid forward Kylian Mbappe's rapid fall from favour in China after remarks about Mao Zedong followed a familiar pattern: online outrage, corporate distancing, platform restrictions and official intervention.
The quake occurred at around 4.27pm on July 28.
The Saudis announced this week an initial agreement to store crude in Singapore’s rock caverns.
Police arrested the two local men, aged 27 and 28, around Johor Baru on Oct 27.
Former national police chief Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa has been in hiding since May.
Their return reflects the growing dilemma facing flood survivors in Nuwakot and neighbouring Rasuwa districts.
The authorities urged companies to review their information security systems for anomalies.
Both cases involved shipments with incomplete and false recipient and sender addresses.
Israelis turned out in numbers not seen in a generation, and handed both of their would-be prime ministers the same verdict: not enough. On the partial count this morning, neither Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc nor Gadi Eisenkot’s reaches the 61 seats needed to govern. Both men have
Oct 28 - Qatari mediators have presented Iran with a new draft deal to end the war with the US and Israel, an official briefed on the negotiations said, but a senior Iranian official said Doha had only put forward unacceptable ideas that did not amount to an offer.
Hegseth said the US would back that commitment with practical cooperation.
The clip of the video interview saw Kylian Mbappe talk about being amused by an internet meme of his face photoshopped onto "some guy, think he's a Chinese dictator", an apparent reference to Mao Zedong.
The joint field training exercise involved a firefighting operation and casualty evacuation. It comes ahead of the cross-border rail service’s opening in February 2027.
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth urged the formation of a new US-ASEAN defence cooperation framework and for strengthened maritime awareness and advanced naval coordination in the region.
The disaster on Oct 29, 2022, killed 160 people.
China is expected to adopt the proposals by the end of 2026 and issue guidelines on implementation later.
Residents in Bengaluru's Electronic City say nearby data centres are adding to pressure on local water supplies, while farmers outside the city oppose plans to acquire land for a township that would include AI-related industries.
More than 200 passengers leave Villa Vie Residences’ Odyssey in Sihanoukville after the company suspends Cambodia operations and cites surging fuel costs.
For decades after World War II, Japan was seen in Southeast Asia chiefly as an economic partner, a development donor and a source of investment. Security played a minor role in its relations with ASEAN. Today, Japan is a significant security partner for many Southeast Asian
BELGRADE/MILAN/BRUSSELS/TIRANA, Oct 28 - Maya Gourdel, a 19-year-old student in Brussels, sits at a desk writing slogans against those running her country: “If we burn, you burn with us!” The slogan, taken from the 2012 film \"The Hunger Games\" that has been adopted as a
Bluey is the popular star of an Australian cartoon series featuring canines navigating childhood and parenting in the suburbs.
Two days of rain at the start of the week have eased the haze and improved visibility in parts of Indonesia after months of forest and land fires.
Saudi Arabia’s rapid expansion of a ballistic missile factory signals a transformative shift in its pursuit of strategic deterrence. Saudi Arabia is expanding its solid-propellant missile production complex near al-Duwadimi, approximately 200 kilometers west of Riyadh, to
ISLAMABAD, Oct 28 - One person was killed and five injured after Afghan Taliban fired at civilian houses and a market in Pakistan's Waziristan region, near the countries' border, a senior Pakistani administrative official said on Wednesday.
CEBU, Philippines, Oct 28 - Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles said on Wednesday the country remains on track to acquire its first nuclear-powered submarine from the United States.
He said Australia is on track to receive Virginia-class submarines from the US.
As artificial intelligence technologies grow ever more powerful, so do the risks they pose and with them the urgency of regulating AI. In July 2026, OpenAI’s advanced models hacked into AI company Hugging Face’s systems during internal cybersecurity evaluations by communicating
China’s population fell for a fourth straight year in 2025, as its birth rate dropped to a record low.