TOKYO — Investors betting against a MAGA-fied Federal Reserve are rapidly getting used to disappointment. On Friday (January 9), as Fed Chair Jerome Powell has since detailed in a video message, US President Donald Trump’s administration threatened a criminal indictment via
Ai's cognitive abilities had been studied extensively since she was brought to a Japanese institute in 1977.
“India’s journey today is not merely about development; it is also a journey of psychological renaissance.” — Narendra Modi “Realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is the greatest dream of the Chinese nation in modern times.” — Xi Jinping India and China — the
Opposition leader Natthaphong Ruengpanyawut was the top choice for PM among 32 per cent of the 2,682 people surveyed.
Twenty people were reportedly involved in the explosion.
The team said its process eliminated over 95 per cent of micro and nanoplastics within 10 minutes.
Sergio Gor tells reporters in Delhi "real friends can disagree but will always resolve differences".
Thousands of travellers were affected by the flight cancellations.
The sitting has been moved from Feb 3 to Jan 19 and 20.
Jan 12 - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni will seek to extend his four-decade rule on Thursday in an election that has renewed questions about the 81-year-old leader's eventual succession.
The elections are being derided as a ploy to prolong junta rule.
KAMPALA, Jan 12 - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is widely expected to extend his four-decade rule in an election on Thursday after a campaign marred by violence and clouded by questions about who might eventually succeed him.
President Xi Jinping in 2025 called corruption “the biggest threat” to China’s Communist Party.
BEIJING, Jan 12 - China will focus its corruption crackdown on preventing misconduct from escalating into graft, according to a state broadcaster documentary series that highlighted the crimes of a disgraced former minister.
Mr Jiang Chenghua is a veteran negotiator with experience in managing the country’s investment ties with the US.
The new destinations will connect Hong Kong with popular tourist cities, including Nanjing.
Defence Minister Khaled Nordin says accusations of corruption and immorality in the Malaysian Armed Forces have embroiled it in “ugly and distorted” public debate.
Pyongyang accused Washington of a “hideous criminal act”.
SEOUL, Jan 12 - North Korea has lashed out at a special sanctions monitoring team composed of multiple countries, calling its activities \"illegal\" and irrelevant to the United Nations, state media KCNA reported on Monday.
Imagine if what happened in Venezuela had happened to the United States. In the scenario, Washington has a longtime, totally compliant lap dog of a president in some Asian country, and there are American businesses in the place with the country’s main natural resource asset
The summit in Japan’s Nara City comes amid a growing diplomatic dispute between Beijing and Tokyo.
She began language learning using materials, including computers, at the age of 18 months.
There are wars that begin with missiles and those that begin with memos. Donald Trump’s latest economic offensive belongs firmly to the second category. A 500% tariff threat on India—embedded in the so-called Sanctioning Russia Act of 2025—is not merely an escalation of
Several PAS MPs openly demanded Muhyiddin’s resignation during discussions in a WhatsApp group chat.
It was originally meant to wear an upturned smile.
The 68-year-old leader bid for both top positions at a party meeting in December 2025.
HANOI, Jan 12 - Vietnam's Communist Party chief To Lam is seeking to combine his party role with the state presidency, officials said, in a move that would align Vietnam's political structure more closely to China's where President Xi Jinping heads the party and state.
I am neither a forensic expert nor a jury member, but it sure looks to me like an ICE agent shot and killed a woman who wasn’t threatening his life. We have video of the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis on January 7th, and the Washington Post has a detailed blow-by-blow
Between 2007 and 2024, methylphenidate prescriptions were highest among teenagers and those in the highest income group.
The film's breakout anthem Golden was also named best original song at the awards on Sunday.
Another heating event is expected towards the end of January, though its intensity is uncertain.
Recent protests have inflamed several Iranian cities in recent days, erupting from long-standing dissatisfaction with the nation’s Islamist regime. These protesters do not arrive like flash fires. They are slow burns that have finally come into the open. It is ordinary men and
Seoul is willing to jointly conduct the investigation with Pyongyang but has not made the proposal.
SEOUL, Jan 12 - South Korean authorities have launched an investigation focused on the possibility civilians may have flown drones that North Korea said violated its airspace, the Defence Ministry said on Monday.
SYDNEY, Jan 12 - A top Australian arts festival has seen the withdrawal of dozens of writers in a backlash against its decision to bar an Australian Palestinian author after the Bondi Beach mass shooting, as moves to curb antisemitism spur free speech concerns.
Rescuers recovered two more bodies on Jan 11, even as 31 remained missing.
Saudi Arabia’s reported interest in converting financial support for Pakistan into a potential fighter jet deal highlights how Gulf arms procurement is increasingly shaped by strategic hedging and alliance politics rather than pure military necessity. Pakistan and Saudi Arabia
Such hearings give defence lawyers the chance to seek a more lenient jail term for Lai.
It will mark the world’s first attempt to continuously lift rare earth seabed sludge from 6km deep onto a ship.
Trump’s bid to dominate the Western Hemisphere and seize Greenland is not just a Latin American or North Atlantic story. It is an experiment in 19th-century spheres of influence in a 21st-century, deeply interconnected world. For Beijing and the wider Asian region, the question
SEOUL, Jan 12 - A joint investigative team of Cambodian and South Korean police has arrested 26 suspects over alleged online scams and sex crimes targeting South Korean citizens, the Korean presidential office said on Monday.
Comedian Pandji Pragiwaksono was reported to the police for incitement and blasphemy.
Residents are suffering the effects of overcrowding and poor manners.
It is still unclear what caused the glitch that knocked out the autogates at both checkpoints.