PESHAWAR, Pakistan Dec 9 - Militants stormed a security checkpoint in Pakistan's northwest near the Afghan border, killing six soldiers, three police and security sources said on Tuesday.
Bai Tianhui exploited his positions between 2014 and 2018 to illegally accept money and assets.
Some 760 orangutans living in Tapanuli region face extinction driven by deforestation and floods.
The operation was launched after the South Korean Embassy alerted Thai authorities.
BEIJING, Dec 9 - China executed on Tuesday a former general manager of China Huarong International Holdings, Bai Tianhui, for taking bribes totalling 1.1 billion yuan ($156 million), state broadcaster CCTV said.
Indian authorities confirmed the two brothers boarded a flight to Phuket in Thailand shortly after the incident.
DBS’ anticipated acquisition of a stake in Alliance Bank would bring to a close its nearly two-decade effort to secure a meaningful foothold in Malaysia.
The ban is being closely watched by other countries considering similar measures.
SYDNEY, Dec 9 - Australia on Wednesday will become the world's first country to ban social media for children under 16, blocking them from platforms including TikTok, Alphabet's YouTube and Meta's Instagram and Facebook.
The Indonesian capital has consistently ranked among the most polluted cities in the world in recent years.
WASHINGTON, Dec 8 - Two Chinese men are in custody for allegedly smuggling Nvidia H100 and H200 chips to China, the U.S. Justice Department said on Monday, as President Donald Trump gave the green light for Nvidia to export its H200 chips to Beijing.
The latest quake may have shifted the balance in the ground, possibly laying the groundwork for a larger one.
Lawmakers across the globe will be studying this live experiment for signs of how they themselves can act.
SYDNEY, Dec 9 - Australia said on Tuesday it had struck a A$1.4 billion ($930 million) contract with Boeing Defence Australia for six operational Ghost Bat drones for the Australian Defence Force, after conducting the first live weapon test on an aerial target.
The personal information of 33.7 million Coupang customers had been leaked in 2025.
China’s trade surplus topped US$1 trillion (S$1.3 trillion) for the first time in November.
BEIJING, Dec 9 - China's Premier Li Qiang said on Tuesday the \"mutually destructive consequences of tariffs have become increasingly evident\" over 2025, in remarks at a \"1+10 Dialogue\" including the heads of the IMF, World Trade Organization and World Bank.
WELLINGTON/TAIPEI, Dec 9 - The New Zealand navy's largest ship encountered a Taiwanese warship as it sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait last month, the country's armed forces said on Tuesday, as they published a rare picture of what happened.
A Taiwan official said it is standard practice to "escort" foreign vessels transiting the strait.
Speaking during a meeting with German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul in Beijing, Wang Yi said that given this year is the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, Japan, "as a defeated nation", should have acted with greater caution.
Johor Bahru's mayor said the bus route is not decided but will likely travel around the city centre.
Mounds of rubbish were seen in back lanes, vacant plots and road shoulders.
Japan said Chinese fighter jets had aimed their radar at Japanese military aircraft.
The slow pace of rescue and aid delivery raised questions about the government’s disaster response capacity.
Each side has blamed the other for the clashes.
Many Australian teenagers fear the restrictions will rob them of much-needed connection.
China’s exports to the United States have dropped 26% year‑on‑year in the eight months after United States President Donald Trump imposed extra tariffs on imports from China in April. Yet the time for Trump to take a victory lap is not at hand as China’s global trade surplus
Some 118 million women in 12 Indian states receive unconditional cash transfers, one of the world’s largest experiments.
Donald Trump’s campaign against Venezuela escalated recently with the US president announcing that the country’s airspace should be considered “closed.” This is a move that has preceded US military interventions in the past, perhaps most notably in Iraq in 2003. It remains to
TOKYO, Dec 9 - Japanese authorities lifted tsunami warnings on Tuesday hours after a powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake shook northeastern regions, injuring at least 30 people and forcing about 90,000 residents to evacuate their homes.
Nvidia had been at the centre of a geopolitical tug-of-war between the US and China in recent months.
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also called for restraint amid clashes along the disputed Thai-Cambodian border.
Reddit said it would use an “age-prediction model” to weed out young users.
SEOUL, Dec 9 - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sent a message of condolence to Russia's Vladimir Putin and sympathies to the embassy in the country regarding the death of Aleksandr Ivanovich Matsegora, Russian extraordinary ambassador to North Korea, state media KCNA
Matsegora became ambassador to Pyongyang in 2014.
Vladimir Putin’s arrival in New Delhi on December 4 for his formal visit to India lacked the grandeur of a state ceremony. However the low-key appearance conceals the significance of the occasion. This marks the leader’s first visit, to India since the Ukraine conflict reshaped
The announcement marks a significant shift in US export policy for advanced AI chips, which Joe Biden's administration had heavily restricted over national security concerns about Chinese military applications.
Great powers have always pursued their interests at the expense of smaller states, but the brazenness on display now is striking, says Patricia M Kim from the Brookings Institution.
Amid probes into Prince Group for alleged financial crimes, the question is whether Singapore's enforcement capabilities can evolve as fast as criminal methods, says lawyer Ben Chester Cheong.
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto must address years of institutional neglect to tackle the structural failures fuelling disasters, says a researcher.
The government of Taiwan, anxious to strengthen the island country’s military defenses, is facing stern warnings from China and domestic critics not to import weapons from the United States. In late November, Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te announced plans to spend $40 billion
Advocacy group Equality Tasmania says about 100 men were charged or convicted under the former homosexuality laws.
MEXICO CITY, Dec 8 - Mexican lawmakers are slated to begin debate this week on a bill to raise tariffs on goods from China and other Asian countries, three ruling party lawmakers told Reuters, amid fierce opposition from China and Mexican business groups.
LONDON, Dec 8 - Two teenage Afghan asylum seekers, who had both arrived in Britain alone in the last year, were given long detention sentences on Monday for raping a 15-year-old girl in central England.
For the second time this year, a little-known company backed by Donald Trump Jr. has scored a major contract with the US Department of Defense. The Financial Times reported that Vulcan Elements—a tiny startup of 30 employees that specializes in producing rare-earth magnets used