UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations Security Council removed sanctions on Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, who is due to meet U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday.
President Trump has ordered the Pentagon to restart nuclear testing. The Russians were stunned by the announcement (probably what President Trump intended). However, with or without the Trump announcement, the US probably needs to resume some testing. The question is how to do
WASHINGTON - Kazakhstan is expected to be announced on Thursday night as the latest country to join the Abraham Accords that have normalized relations between Israel and Muslim-majority nations, a senior U.S. official said.
This article, first published by Pacific Forum, is republished with permission. The global energy landscape is on the cusp of a profound transformation, with low-carbon hydrogen emerging as a critical pillar in the quest for decarbonization. Though most hydrogen produced
Each nation blamed the other for starting the exchange of gunfire near Spin Boldak, an Afghan border town.
ISLAMABAD/KABUL - Afghan and Pakistani troops briefly exchanged fire along their shared border on Thursday, both nations said, on the same day talks to find a lasting peace restarted in Istanbul.
BEIRUT - The Israeli military carried out heavy airstrikes on southern Lebanon on Thursday after issuing evacuation orders for several locations, saying Lebanese armed group Hezbollah was trying to rebuild its military capabilities there.
Elected officials and Detroit automakers have fretted for years that low-priced, high-quality Chinese cars could eventually enter the US market through Mexico. But consider this: Car haulers full of Chinese-brand vehicles might someday roll across the Ambassador Bridge and the
More than 260,000 soldiers are on standby for rescue efforts as winds of up to 92mph (149km/h) hit Vietnam.
ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine - A Ukrainian court sentenced a Russian soldier on Thursday to life in prison after finding him guilty of killing a Ukrainian prisoner of war, the first time Ukraine has jailed a suspect on such charges since Russia's invasion.
KAMPALA - When Zohran Mamdani inveighed against inequality and corruption during his underdog bid for New York City mayor, Joseph Beyanga at Uganda's Daily Monitor could hear echoes of conversations almost 20 years earlier with the then-intern on the newspaper's sports desk.
Gen Z voters make up 25 per cent of the 74.2 million electorate in Bihar.
ATHENS - A Greek prosecutor has extended charges to four more senior coast guard officers over one of the Mediterranean's deadliest accidents, a 2023 shipwreck in which hundreds drowned off the southwestern town of Pylos, legal sources said on Thursday.
NAIROBI/ATHENS - Pirates have boarded a Malta-flagged products tanker off Somalia, maritime security sources said on Thursday, while the vessel's manager said the ship's 24 crew members were safe.
China’s new “mini drone carrier” signals a turning point in naval warfare — swapping costly supercarriers for swarming, expendable drone decks built to strike and survive. This month, The War Zone (TWZ) reported that China has begun at-sea testing of its AR-500CJ uncrewed
The government was ordered to pay millions of ringgit to the families of Pastor Raymond Koh and Mr Amri Che Mat.
Dr Wan Ramli Wan Daud said that the similarities between the shipbuilding methods are coincidental.
Salman Rushdie’s new collection of short stories urgently recollects his literary legacy. It’s as though time is increasingly uncertain, so the need to tell stories is great. Its title, “The Eleventh Hour“, says as much, and the book succeeds “Knife” (2024), written about his
JAKARTA - About 100 activists gathered on Thursday in Indonesia's capital Jakarta to demand that the government cancel a plan to grant late authoritarian leader Suharto the status of national hero, reflecting wider concerns about historical revisionism.
She was found dead in a bathtub in a Kuala Lumpur hotel on Oct 22.
MOSCOW - Russia's defence ministry said on Thursday that its forces had advanced in the battered Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk and were fighting house-to-house battles in a bid to eject Ukrainian forces from the city.
Crews are digging through snow, and scanning the white landscape with electronic detectors.
TBILISI - Georgian prosecutors charged eight opposition figures, including jailed former President Mikheil Saakashvili, with plotting to topple the government and aiding foreign powers, a move sure to deepen concerns about democracy in the EU candidate nation.
NAIROBI/ATHENS - Pirates have boarded a Malta-flagged products tanker off Somalia, maritime security sources said on Thursday, while the vessel's manager said the ship's 24 crew members were safe.
The talks are taking place amid intensifying competition for Central Asia’s vast mineral resources.
Indonesia's president said he sees no issue paying around US$72 million annually in interest expense, because the rail project’s benefits must be taken into account.
Asia’s benchmark price dropped to a 10-year low in October.
SEOUL - The South Korean-owned Philly Shipyard in the United States does not currently have the capability to build a nuclear-powered submarine, Prime Minister Kim Min-seok said on Thursday during a parliamentary hearing.
Economists warn that foreign investors may lose trust in Indonesia's economic data and pull out.
ISLAMABAD/KABUL - Afghanistan and Pakistan will resume peace talks in Istanbul on Thursday, both nations said, after a previous round ended without agreeing a lasting truce.
Recommendations include calling for parent-teacher meetings to be limited to less than 30 minutes.
It is believed that the track had been scheduled for release in advance, rather than being a deliberate move by the rapper.
As leaders gather for the U.N. climate summit in Brazil this month - three decades after the world's first annual climate conference - the data charting progress in the fight against global warming tells a sobering story.
The ministry will continue monitoring advertisements for medicines, including those on e-commerce platforms.
US President Donald Trump announced a week ago that South Korea would build the submarine in a Philadelphia shipyard.
Lebanon's Hezbollah said on Thursday that the militia group had \"a legitimate right to resist (Israeli) occupation\", adding that it would support the Lebanese army.
When President Donald Trump announced last week in Busan that the United States would share nuclear-submarine propulsion technology with South Korea, most headlines treated it as another routine security cooperation pledge. In reality, it may prove one of the most consequential
Malaysian pastor Raymond Koh was abducted on Feb 13, 2017 in broad daylight while driving along Petaling Jaya in Selangor.
SEOUL - Authorities in South Korea fear five people remain trapped on Thursday after the collapse of a large structure at a power station in the city of Ulsan, a fire official said, although four others were pulled from the rubble.
When the United States (US) publicly condemned the European Union’s (EU) proposed Space Act as “unacceptable,” it wasn’t merely a diplomatic disagreement — it was a fundamental clash of philosophies over who gets to govern the final frontier. The EU, through its ambitious