Should I stay or should I go? Malaysian parties mull future after three years with Anwar at the helm
Malaysian parties reconsider alliances, signaling a pre-election period is here with polls due by early 2028.
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Indonesia floods: the real risk was not foreign aid
The floods that swept through Sumatra in late 2025 were neither sudden nor inexplicable. Cyclonic rainfall, intensified by warming seas and degraded watersheds, overwhelmed Aceh and North Sumatra with predictable force. Nearly a thousand lives were lost. More than a million
Ugandan army admits holding priest who'd been missing for days
The armed forces accused Father Deusdedit Ssekabira of involvement in "violent subversive activities".
‘Sundays,’ Director Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s San Sebastián Best Film Winner, Closes Half the World With Early Sales for Le Pacte (EXCLUSIVE)
Alauda Ruiz de Azua’s “Sundays” (“Los Domingos”), the winner of the San Sebastián Film Festival’s Golden Shell for best film, has been sold to half the major movie markets in the world by Paris-based Le Pacte. The first phase roll out for Le Pacte underscores the sales punch
Thailand to go to the polls on Feb 8: Election commission
Official poll results will be announced by Apr 9, after which the new parliament must convene within 15 days to elect speakers and then vote in a prime minister.
Witkoff, Kushner brief EU foreign ministers on Gaza via video conference, EU official says
BRUSSELS, Dec 15 (Reuters) - U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner on Monday briefed EU foreign ministers on Trump's Gaza peace plan via video conference, an EU official said. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said earlier
‘I consider him my first son’: how living with a baby monkey taught me I’m ready to be a dad
I went from selling flats in Paris to being alone in a cabin in Guinea looking after primates. It changed my life, but one relationship marked me like no other In 2022, I had a job at an estate agents in Paris selling ridiculously expensive flats, and decided I needed to do
Deep-learning model predicts how fruit flies form, cell by cell
During early development, tissues and organs begin to bloom through the shifting, splitting, and growing of many thousands of cells.
Trump Tirades over Failing Economy Backfire as GOP Panics: “Disaster!”
President Donald Trump keeps ranting furiously that “affordability” is a Democratic scam. But suddenly he’s now promoting video of himself talking about how devoted he is — really, truly — to doing something about prices (while angrily blaming Democrats for it). And that admits
Best of 2025: Our Most Popular Originals of the Year
Our 10 most-read Longreads essays of 2025.
Turkmenistan hosts the international forum on peace and trust
At a critical juncture for global diplomacy, the capital of Turkmenistan, Ashgabat, hosted a high-level international gathering centered on peace and trust. Organized within the framework of the 30th anniversary of Turkmenistan’s permanent neutrality and the International Year
Philippines to protest China’s actions that injured Filipino fishermen in South China Sea
Philippines will file a demarche to the Chinese embassy on Dec 15.
15 years into Obamacare, the GOP health care message is as muddled as ever
The party is again struggling to unite behind an alternative to expiring insurance subsidies used by millions of Americans.
Trump’s NSS puts the squeeze on Indonesia’s strategic autonomy
America’s 2025 National Security Strategy marks one of the most consequential updates to Washington’s regional playbook in more than a decade, with ripple effects extending far beyond the US–China rivalry or the empowerment of Japan as the US’s most consequential Indo-Pacific
Merriam-Webster’s 2025 Word of the Year is 'slop'
A fitting Word of the Year from Merriam-Webster, which reflects one of 2025's main sources of concern: the proliferation of AI and our way of consuming low quality digital content.
MSI MEG X870E Godlike X Edition review
Taking one of the most over-the-top, luxury-class AMD motherboards around and making it even more exclusive.
Singapore, China leaders hail growing ties, sign 27 agreements at annual apex meeting to deepen cooperation
The agreements were signed at the 21st Joint Council for Bilateral Cooperation (JCBC) meeting in Chongqing, which was co-chaired by Singapore DPM Gan Kim Yong and Chinese Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang.
2026 European Shooting Stars Unveiled
The 10 up-and-coming European acting talents will be feted at the Berlin Film Festival in February.
Europe 'needs to stand up to Trump and stop buying US energy', Tubiana tells Euronews
The CEO of the European Climate Foundation, who served as France's climate change ambassador for the 2015 United Nations climate summit in Paris, remains a climate optimist and points to China as an example to follow.
Perspectives for strategic partnership between Kazakhstan and EU discussed at round table in Brussels
A round table titled “Kazakhstan – European Union: Can This Partnership Deliver More – and What Will It Take?” was held at the European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS) in Brussels. The event, organized at one of the well-known analytical centers of the European capital, was
Watch the video: Russian frozen assets — the EU is finally playing hardball
Brussels just locked down €210 billion of Russian Central Bank cash. What's next?
Australia defends record on anti-Semitism after Bondi Beach shooting
The Australian Jewish Association said the Bondi shooting was a “tragedy but entirely foreseeable”.
Singapore, China agree on 27 new deals at top-level talks amid global uncertainties
In one of the deals, DBS was named Singapore’s second renminbi clearing bank, after ICBC’s Singapore branch.
