While assuring reporters that the ceasefire agreement reached last month between the Trump administration and Iran is holding, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday said the American forces are acting “aggressively” in the Strait of Hormuz, where he said US Central Command
[Editor’s note: Urban Lehner has seen up close how this sort of situation plays out. He was the Wall Street Journal’s Detroit bureau chief in the 1980s when the Japanese were starting to make cars in the United States.] China is the world’s largest auto exporter. The Chinese
Next week, when President Donald Trump arrives in Beijing to meet President Xi Jinping, the choreography will be in quintessential familiar style. Yet their carefully crafted calisthenics, their ritual reaffirmations and the language of leadership will not hide the truth that
May 5 - Pakistan's navy responded to a distress call from an Indian vessel stranded in the Arabian Sea after a critical technical failure, Pakistan's military said on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON, May 5 - President Donald Trump on Tuesday dismissed Iran's military capability and said Tehran \"should wave the white flag of surrender\" but is too proud to do so.
The Abukuma-class vessels have been on the Philippines’ radar for some time.
ISTANBUL, May 5 - Leading Turkish defence firm Aselsan will ramp up the delivery of parts it is producing as part of Turkey's efforts to build its integrated and multi-layered \"Steel Dome\" air defence system, the company's general manager told Reuters on Tuesday.
In Hangzhou, they issued a traffic warning every 1 min 43 sec over the May Day holiday.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s term is set to end on May 7.
PARIS, May 5 - France has called an online meeting of G7 countries for Thursday to discuss how to break China's stranglehold on critical materials, Finance Minister Roland Lescure said, announcing plans to rebuild the industry in France.
New Zealand PM Christopher Luxon discussed the Indo-Pacific’s economic potential, geopolitical tensions, and efforts by countries like New Zealand and Singapore to strengthen trade and security ties in an interview with CNA’s Angela Lim.
Student groups have opposed the decision and asked the government to reverse the ban.
PARIS, May 5 - U.N. Security Council members will begin talks on Tuesday on a U.S.- and Bahrain‑backed draft resolution that could lead to sanctions against Iran, and potentially authorise force, if Tehran fails to halt attacks and threats to commercial shipping in the Strait
Kim Aris, son of Aung San Suu Kyi, said that he has yet to hear from his mother.
Her son Kim Aris says he has still not heard from his mother.
Nations have always had to negotiate shared waters. The sea carries trade and sustains coastal communities. It often hides valuable resources. It can bring neighbors closer together, but when claims overlap, it can also become a source of friction. Recent incidents in the
He will seek to discuss his plan with foreign ministers in South-east Asia at a summit this week.
The withdrawal was an election campaign pledge of Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, who earlier this year rode a wave of nationalism stoked by fierce fighting with Cambodia to become the first Thai premier to be reelected in two decades.
The Chinese-owned firm that operates the Port of Darwin isn’t happy about the federal government’s push to return it to an Australian owner. Now, the situation is escalating, with the stage set for an international legal showdown. The Albanese government has been in talks with
The US President signed an executive order on May 1 broadening US sanctions against the Cuban government.
HONG KONG, May 5 - China urged Washington on Tuesday to immediately end its embargo and sanctions on Cuba, saying the expanded measures were \"illegal\" and \"seriously violated\" the norms of international relations.
Indian pubs and social media influencers have spotted a chance to profit from the scarcity.
The devices feature a large circular camera module with multiple lenses.
ANKARA, May 5 - Turkey and Saudi Arabia plan to sign an agreement to scrap visa requirements for some of their citizens during talks between their foreign ministers in Ankara on Wednesday, a Turkish diplomatic source said on Tuesday.
Diplomacy, like commerce, runs on signals. When relations sour, the choreography of repair matters almost as much as the substance. In South Asia’s second most delicate bilateral equation, between India and Bangladesh, the recent shift in tone from New Delhi suggests a
The long-delayed listing comes after nearly a decade of regulatory hurdles, including investigations into alleged governance lapses and preferential market access.
MOSCOW, May 5 - Russia cut off mobile internet services to many customers in Moscow on Tuesday ahead of the annual May 9 parade commemorating victory over Nazi Germany, which has been scaled back due to the threat of drone attacks from Ukraine.
He has accepted US$50,000 (S$63,800) a month to “rebuild” relations between the US and Myanmar.
The US-Iran war is exposing a hard truth: Asia is a tiered system of energy access, where wealth determines resilience. Investors have for years treated Asia as a single growth engine. Capital flowed into the region on the assumption that, despite the clear, well-known
Drivers back newer cars to counter illegal “Pak Wanca” rivals undercutting fares.
A deal with Vietnam could be worth about 60 billion rupees (S$803 million).
The final report is expected by June, within a year of the crash.
The authorities suspect the principal was trying to collect congratulatory money from co-workers.
Women aged 60 or older accounted for more than 22% of divorce-related legal consultations in February.
DUBAI/WASHINGTON, May 5 - The fragile truce in the Middle East was in jeopardy on Tuesday after the U.S. and Iran launched new attacks as they wrestled for control of the Strait of Hormuz.
MOSCOW, May 5 - Two people were killed and five others injured in an explosion at the Kazzinc plant, Kazakhstan's largest zinc production facility owned by Glencore, the company said on Tuesday.
The government has ordered law enforcement agencies to probe the allegations involving the businessmen.
The move adds a potential friction point to an agenda already complicated by the Iran war.
For more than 60 years, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was the backbone of American development diplomacy. Today, it is gone. But the most immediate consequence is not what many assume. It is not simply the loss of funding. It is the collapse of
The next attack on the global economy may not arrive with a missile strike or a cyberattack on a server farm. It may arrive as silence — the sudden, eerie quiet of severed fiber-optic cables resting on the floor of the Persian Gulf, cut by a vessel whose crew will claim it was
India usually sources about half of its crude through the Strait of Hormuz.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party scored a landmark victory in the opposition stronghold of West Bengal on Monday (May 4) - a state that the party has never ruled before.
The volunteer lifeboat crew members who died were aged 62 and 78.
The Jasper Jones and Runt author was arrested in January during a police raid at his Perth home.
The US Army’s fast-tracked anti-ship missile could fill a key Pacific gap, but its deterrent value will hinge on production capacity, launcher survivability and China’s continued preference for coercion over invasion in Taiwan. Naval News reports the US Army is accelerating