July 7 - Mehr Khan, an Indian transgender woman, arrived for a routine hormone therapy appointment only to discover the crucial treatment had been suspended after a recent change in the law narrowed the range of those eligible for such services.
BEIJING, July 7 - Sixteen people remain buried in a mountainous county in China's western province of Gansu after a landslide on Tuesday, according to state broadcaster CCTV.
SEOUL, July 7 - A commentary carried by North Korean state media KCNA on Tuesday criticised Japan's military expansion, saying its overseas aggression was \"not hypothetical but reality\" and citing Japanese plans to develop unmanned submarines capable of anti-ship attacks.
The incident at a dermatology clinic comes as the use of medical narcotics continues to rise in the country.
The 69-year-old helped companies secure valuable contracts in exchange for money, a court heard.
Canberra did not want to see actions that could undermine peace and security in the Pacific.
The trip is part of efforts to give the impression that Myanmar is no longer diplomatically isolated.
Myanmar authorities are bidding to revive an industry devastated since the 2021 coup plunged the country into civil war and international isolation.
ANKARA, July 7 - NATO leaders plan to unveil arms deals worth tens of billions of dollars in Ankara on Tuesday to show they are heeding U.S. calls to spend more to defend Europe before joining President Donald Trump for a summit.
SYDNEY, July 7 - A man scaled the 140-metre-high (460 foot) tower of a cantilever bridge in the Australian city of Melbourne on Tuesday and painted a giant cartoon bird on it, disrupting morning commuter traffic.
The man demanded a peanut butter sandwich be delivered by drone before he would come down.
The test fire is the latest move in its rapid military modernisation.
At least two have been killed by flooding due to Maysak, while another 480,000 have been evacuated across the southern Guangxi province.
JAKARTA, July 7 - India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to meet Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto on Tuesday, as the leaders of two of the world's most populous countries seek to finalise deals ranging from defence to food security.
The firm's shares fell sharply on Tuesday as some investors had expected an even stronger performance.
Founded by two former graphic designers in Jakarta, the contemporary fashion brand built a loyal following with versatile pieces that move seamlessly from beach getaways to special occasions.
Floods hit reservoirs and villages in Guangxi region.
China's self-driving car firms have been given a headstart by the country's EV supply chain as they expand globally.
Carrying about 99 per cent of global data traffic, undersea cables have become a new front in the strategic rivalry between Washington and Beijing.
OSLO, July 6 - Norway wants China to use its ties to the Russian leadership to help bring about a negotiated settlement to the war in Ukraine, also for the sake of better relations with Europe, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said on Monday.
DAMASCUS, July 6 - French President Emmanuel Macron landed in Syria on Monday, Syria's state news agency reported, in the first visit to Damascus by a European Union head of state since rebels led by President Ahmed al-Sharaa toppled Bashar al-Assad in 2024.
Officials raised the emergency response in Nanning, Guangxi’s capital, to the highest level after torrential rain breached dams.
Research warns that Thailand, Vietnam and other parts of ASEAN could be hit hard by El Nino.
BAKU, July 6 - Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry said on Monday it had summoned Russia's ambassador to protest against what it said was a Russian drone strike on a fuel station belonging to state oil and gas company SOCAR in Ukraine's Mykolaiv region on Sunday.
ISLAMABAD, July 6 - Pakistan has quietly begun mediating between Libya's rival eastern and western power centres, two Pakistani sources said, in a previously unreported Pakistani effort that would further raise its diplomatic profile if it succeeds.
The car in the video is believed to be a Malaysian car.
They will exchange critical information and deepen collaboration in cutting-edge fields.
Interplanetary travel to Mars aboard nuclear-powered spaceships may sound like science fiction – yet NASA is planning to make it a reality. The Space Reactor-1 Freedom mission is scheduled for launch by December 2028 to explore Mars, with NASA heralding it as “the first
MOSCOW, July 6 - Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Monday that he hoped the South Caucasus country could mend its relationship with Russia and resolve certain \"problematic issues\" which have arisen recently.
When South Korea’s chip giant SK Hynix launches its planned US$29 billion US listing, investors will tell themselves they’re buying one of the world’s most important semiconductor companies. But what they will really be buying is a rosy artificial intelligence forecast.
Yang Youlin illegally accepted money and property while holding various government posts
BEIJING, July 6 - A Chinese court on Monday sentenced Yang Youlin, a former senior local official in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing, to death over corruption while also convicting him of abuse of power and money laundering among other charges, a court statement showed.
The two days of violence at Negombo Prison are the worst prison riots in the country in years.
In May, the yield on Japan’s ten-year government bond touched 2.8%, its highest level in nearly three decades. For a market that spent a generation anchored near zero, this was not a technical adjustment — it was a tremor that reverberated across the Pacific: as Japanese yields
MOSCOW, July 6 - The Kremlin said that joint naval drills between Russia and China which kicked off on Monday in the waters and airspace off the Chinese city of Qingdao were not directed against any other country and would boost regional security.
Prime Minister Lawrence Wong and President Prabowo Subianto also addressed the Middle East conflict's implications for regional shipping lanes at their Jakarta meeting.
SRINAGAR, India, July 6 - India's anti-terrorism agency said it filed charges on Monday against Hafiz Saeed, founder of Pakistan-based Islamist militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), over an attack on tourists in Indian Kashmir last year that triggered a conflict with Pakistan.
New Delhi has accused Pakistan of backing the attack, claims Islamabad has repeatedly denied.
Kang Hee-su, whose voice has guided passengers on Seoul Subway Lines 1 to 8 since 1996, died in Seoul on July 4.
DUBAI, July 6 - Two Britons jailed in Iran on espionage charges are maintaining a hunger strike over prison conditions and have been denied adequate medical care and contact with their families, U.S.-based Iranian human rights news agency HRANA reported on Monday.
The touts charged exorbitant fees for transport to Kuala Lumpur.
It is ironic to see the Islamic Republic of Iran burying its slain supreme leader and the United States celebrating its 250th independence anniversary in the same week. Both sides have used mourning and commemoration occasions to claim victory in a war that has led to a fragile
The wounded were rushed to the Negombo hospital, about 35km north of the capital Colombo, following overnight clashes between inmates from two drug gangs at the area's main prison, police said.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has apologised for remarks he made about popstar Kylie Minogue in a podcast interview last week.
Back in the 2010s, a lot of people marveled at China’s seemingly recession-proof economy. Throughout the global financial crisis of 2008 and the Chinese stock market crash and capital flight of 2015, the country never recorded a single quarter of negative economic growth.
COLOMBO, July 6 - Twenty-five people were killed and about 100 injured as security officials struggled to contain two days of clashes between rival groups of inmates at a prison in Sri Lanka, authorities said on Monday, marking the deadliest such violence in years.