July 28 - Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday that its air defenses intercepted and destroyed several drones launched from Iraqi territory that attempted to target oil facilities in the kingdom's key Eastern Province.
Ten people were thought to be unaccounted for in the mall as night fell after the afternoon quake.
LONDON/DUBAI, July 28 - China has held direct talks with Yemen's Houthi movement to enable its tankers to sail through the southern Red Sea without being attacked after the Iran-aligned militia pledged to prevent access to Saudi ports, six sources with knowledge of the matter
Singapore’s top bar Jigger & Pony slips to No 9; Bangkok, Jakarta and Chinese cities post strong showings.
Two quakes struck almost the same region a decade ago, devastating the region.
The management announced that the castle would close for the day on July 28.
Huge scam centres employing as many as 300,000 workers across Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos have emerged.
TOKYO, July 28 - The Aeon mall destroyed in a post-quake explosion in southern Japan on Tuesday had just reopened last month as a new and improved shopping and entertainment complex to commemorate its recovery from a deadly tremor a decade ago.
It reopened in June to commemorate its recovery from a deadly tremor a decade ago.
MOSCOW, July 28 - Lieutenant General Lawrence Mbatha, the chief of the South African Army, held talks with Russian counterparts on Tuesday during a visit to Moscow which his hosts said resulted in an agreement to beef up ties between the two nations' land forces.
BERLIN, July 28 - Germany has deported an Afghan national without a criminal record for the first time since the Taliban returned to power, Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said on Tuesday.
July 28 - France is grappling with an unprecedented fire season that has led to the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people and dealt a blow to the economy during the peak tourist season.
The government is seeking to restore confidence after youth-led protests focused on education reforms rocked the country.
Andy Burnham walked into 10 Downing Street last week as Britain’s seventh prime minister in ten years. He takes over a country still absorbing the aftershocks of the Iran conflict, with the Royal Navy stretched thin as it escorts tankers through the Strait of Hormuz. It says
The Boeing 777 carrying 239 people - two-thirds of them Chinese - vanished from radar screens on Mar 8, 2014, while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
The Malaysia Airlines flight went missing on March 8, 2014, in one of aviation’s greatest enduring mysteries.
Premier Li Qiang paid his respects while Xi hosted Slovak President Peter Pellegrini in Beijing.
BEIJING, July 28 - China's No.2 leader, Premier Li Qiang, visited the city of Tangshan on Tuesday for the 50th anniversary of a 1976 earthquake that killed a quarter of a million people - a trip usually made by Chinese presidents.
The legislative push follows weeks of protests over exam paper leaks and other irregularities, which culminated in the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan last week.
The UNHCR office was attracting more refugees to Malaysia, including Rohingya Muslims, said the foreign minister.
KUALA LUMPUR, July 28 - Malaysia should reconsider whether to allow the U.N. refugee agency to operate in the country unless it imposes stricter controls on issuing refugee documents, state media cited the foreign minister as saying on Tuesday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Moscow has been making preparations to receive 30,000 more troops from Pyongyang.
The suspects were mostly foreigners and allegedly belonged to two syndicates targeting victims abroad, says Johor’s police chief.
Ministries deny requests, citing personal data and national security.
A disaster official says 19 people are missing in the south-western Kumamoto prefecture after a magnitude 6.8 tremor.
The Supreme Court also reportedly said the authorities must ensure surveillance footage is preserved.
NEW DELHI, July 28 - India's Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the release of under-18s arrested during the youth protests over exam leaks and said authorities must ensure surveillance footage is preserved after petitioners alleged police brutality against demonstrators.
Artificial intelligence may not create a new kind of terrorism, but it makes existing tactics cheaper, faster and easier. That is the central argument of a July 2026 report from the U.S.-based think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies. It is a convincing
SEOUL, July 28 - South Korean authorities ordered brief neighbourhood evacuations on Tuesday after a leak of white phosphorus inside the U.S. Osan Air Base south of Seoul, the Safety Ministry said.
The quake struck Kumamoto prefecture in the south-west and briefly triggered a tsunami alert.
Chinese independent refiners remain largely absent from the market, despite deeper price discounts.
Canada’s entry into the Global Combat Air Program (GCAP) highlights a broader strategic dilemma: how to modernize its air force without deepening dependence on any single supplier or undermining the interoperability on which its defense commitments rely. This month, multiple
Some buildings and roads in at least seven nearby villages have been damaged.
The education authorities warn that consensual fighting does not justify school violence.
Critics argued that the virtual presenter's tight, revealing outfit objectified female presenters.
The battle for the Malay vote overshadows bread-and-butter issues in Negeri Sembilan.
Vietnam’s effort to modernize Da Nang’s maritime infrastructure may look at first like another Asian port-development project, but it is considerably more important than that. The transformation underway along Vietnam’s central coast brings together three priorities that
She is said to have “begun evaluating the lawmakers”, according to a government official.
She brushed aside the view that the administration sought to signal its reservation over rising interest rates.
The suspects involved had previously worked in scam centres overseas.
KABUL, July 28 - A provincial official was assassinated in Afghanistan's remote northeastern province of Badakhshan on Tuesday, the Afghan Interior Ministry said.
TOKYO, July 28 - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 struck Japan's southern Kumamoto prefecture on Tuesday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
The authorities said the second floor of the Aeon Mall in Kashima, Kumamoto collapsed, with reports of what sounded like an explosion.
Ideal for Japan’s often narrow roads, the super-compact category of cars accounts for some 40 per cent of new vehicle sales there.
Seven people are now being held as part of the probe, including the Nvidia employee.
Over 50 injured as a result of quake, with power and travel disrupted.
NEW DELHI, July 28 - The number of vessels passing through Bab el-Mandeb rose to 28 on Monday, a four-day high, while traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remained low, according to Kpler shipping data, amid optimism about a potential resolution to the U.S.-Iran conflict.
Despite the technological advances, industry players say regulation remains one of the biggest obstacles to wider adoption.
The ministry plans to issue a legislative notice for the proposed Bill as early as July 29.
The Northeast Monsoon season in Malaysia typically begins in late October or early November and ends in late March.
