WELLINGTON - New Zealand firefighters have resumed battling an out-of-control wildfire in a national park in New Zealand's central North Island, which is now estimated to cover over 1,000 hectares (3.9 square miles), Fire and Emergency New Zealand said on Sunday.
A technical glitch led to delays of hundreds of flights over the past two days.
MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday that work is under way on President Vladimir Putin's order to prepare proposals for a possible Russian nuclear test, state news agency TASS reported.
A Japanese man was arrested earlier in the week on suspicion of employing the 12-year-old girl.
Filipinos are bracing for the arrival of a new typhoon after one earlier this week left more than 200 people dead.
China’s new Fujian aircraft carrier has sailed into service, vaulting its blue-water ambitions toward the Second Island Chain and testing US naval primacy from Taiwan to the South China Sea. This month, multiple media sources reported that China’s Fujian aircraft carrier has
MANILA - The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Philippine Senator Ronald Dela Rosa, who oversaw then-President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs, the nation's ombudsman said on Saturday, although the ICC denied the assertion.
Prabowo's approval is little changed from 80.9 per cent in the previous poll, released in January.
Interest in learning Maori is surging, with demand is outstripping supply in classrooms across the country.
Peace talks between Afghanistan and Pakistan broke down, although a ceasefire continues between the South Asian neighbours, a Taliban spokesperson said on Saturday.
Indonesia is struggling to boost economic growth despite Mr Prabowo’s lavish spending plans .
The 17-year-old suspected perpetrator is recovering, Indonesia's police chief said.
This comes after China’s export controls caused a global supply crunch in rare earths.
The traffic of ideas between East and West has always been more than philosophical—it mirrors the evolution of civilization itself. From the time Jesuit missionaries brought clocks and star charts to Ming China or when German philosophers discovered Sanskrit and the Upanisads,
Currently, the largest currency note of 100,000 rupiah is equivalent to US$6.
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The warning comes just days after Typhoon Kalmaegi left a trail of destruction across the region.
One of the most compelling narratives when it comes to national security is the threat of imminent doom. When a German general stated that a Russian attack on NATO territory could be imminent, fearmongering headlines quickly followed. However, it is important to weigh whether
The two sides met on Nov 6 in Turkey to finalise a truce agreed on Oct 19 in Qatar.
From K-pop breakthroughs to Billie Eilish’s comeback and The Weeknd’s latest snub, the 2026 Grammys are full of twists.
The ICC has denied the assertion.
Every few years, as the international order appears to fray at the edges, foreign policy intellectuals dust off their copies of Henry Kissinger’s works and wonder aloud: Can we recreate the Congress of Vienna? Could a grand diplomatic summit—bringing together today’s great
More than 64,000 extremely poor households have been helped over four years in a grassroots programme.
The vision of an all-seeing state has unnerved Washington.
In January 2023, Khairy Jamaluddin was expelled from UMNO for openly criticising the party’s top leadership during the 15th General Election campaign the year before.
He was slashed on the back of his head.
Taiwan Vice-President Hsiao Bi-khim spoke at the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China's annual summit held in the European Parliament in Brussels, a visit which Beijing says "gravely violates the one-China principle".
The platforms were asked to discipline sellers that continue offering prohibited items such as thrifted clothes.
Individuals can be fined 10,000 baht (S$402) or more for drinking during prohibited times.
The country's only formal diplomatic ties in Europe are with the Vatican.
North Korea fired a ballistic missile towards the sea off its east coast a day earlier.
SEOUL - North Korea's defense minister No Kwang Chol threatened to take \"more offensive action\" as he condemned the arrival of a U.S. aircraft carrier in South Korea and the recent visit by U.S. and Korean officials to an inter-Korean border, North Korean state media KCNA
Japan’s tea industry needs to be far more assertive about what makes it special, says David Fickling for Bloomberg Opinion.
