LONDON, May 27 - Britain is at a \"moment of consequence\" amid increasingly brazen behaviour from adversaries and a narrowing window to stay ahead in the race to harness technology along with its allies, a British spy chief will say on Wednesday.
The tests were overseen by the North’s leader, Mr Kim Jong Un.
SEOUL, May 27 - North Korea has tested a mix of tactical ballistic missiles, artillery rockets and precision cruise missiles designed for modern warfare with enhanced combat application under leader Kim Jong Un's supervision, KCNA state news agency said on Wednesday.
China kept the Taiwan issue largely out of sight during last week’s APEC meeting in Suzhou, but analysts say the leaders' summit in Shenzhen this November could prove harder to manage.
He was supposed to head home after a night out with his family but Muhammad Iqbal El Mubarak ended up coordinating efforts to save the lives of those trapped in a devastating train accident.
On April 10, 2026, South Korean President Lee Jae-myung sparked controversy by sharing a social media video that compared wartime killings to the Holocaust and alleged that Israeli forces had tortured, and thrown from a rooftop, a Palestinian. Because the incident had occurred
New regulations include a sixfold increase in the minimum capital investment from five million yen to 30 million yen.
Earlier this year, President Donald Trump surveyed his top military brass on the prospect of making war in Iran. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine urged caution, presciently predicting that a ramped-up campaign against Iran could lead its leaders to close
May 26 - China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Tuesday he hoped parties in the Iran conflict can stay committed to pursuing a ceasefire and continue to meet each other halfway.
Naomi Osaka continues her tradition of serving jaw-dropping looks at Grand Slams with an outfit that reminds her of "the Eiffel tower at night".
There is a particular kind of silence that follows a war’s opening salvos — the silence of think-tank papers being quietly archived, of cable-news predictions being scrubbed from the chyron, of confident assurances that “this time it will be different” colliding with the
WASHINGTON, May 26 - Russia's U.N. ambassador said on Tuesday that the United States did not grant a visa for Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Alimov to attend a U.N. Security Council meeting and called it a breach of U.S. obligations under the U.N. Headquarters
The school’s vice-principal will serve as acting principal in the interim.
MOSCOW, May 26 - Russian President Vladimir Putin will oversee the signing of a deal outlining parameters for the construction of a nuclear power plant in Kazakhstan when he visits the country this week, the Kremlin said on Tuesday.
He is in custody in South Korea, two of his friends and his lawyer told The New York Times.
The Iranian military said early Tuesday that it shot down an American Reaper drone after the Trump administration launched what it characterized as “self-defense strikes” on southern Iran, further complicating efforts to secure a diplomatic resolution to the illegal US-Israeli
YEREVAN, May 26 - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan signed a strategic partnership agreement in the Armenian capital Yerevan on Tuesday, less than two weeks before parliamentary elections in the South Caucasus country.
BEIJING, May 26 - Unmarked tunnels, missing trackers and fake doors have been uncovered during an initial probe into the deadliest mining tragedy in China in over 15 years, with the government vowing to leave no stone unturned, state media reported on Tuesday.
Those with Ebola symptoms must quarantine at a designated state hospital, while those without symptoms would be required to stay at an unspecified quarantine site, the Thai health ministry said.
Travellers will be quarantined whether they have Ebola symptoms or not.
May 26 - India's position as the fifth-largest global market by capitalisation is under threat as Taiwan closes in on the South Asian nation's spot, powered largely by the rapid rise of chip-making major Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.
MOSCOW, May 26 - Russian companies are ready to finance the purchase of heavier weapons and electronic systems to defend their plants from drone attacks, Alexander Shokhin, head of Russia's most powerful business lobby, has told President Vladimir Putin in a meeting.
The two suspects were of Samoan nationality.
The authorities will impose fines of up to $420.
All the people killed and injured were senior city public works officials and a private sector expert conducting the inspection, a fire official said.
According to Starbucks Korea, the refund period will run from June 1 to 14.
NEW DELHI, May 26 - One of India's most exclusive private clubs founded during British colonial rule risks closure after the government ordered it to vacate the prime New Delhi site it has occupied for more than a century, triggering a legal battle and debate over elite
The increasingly public spat between PAS and Bersatu is pushing their relationship to the brink, but Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim may be facing bigger problems within his ruling coalition, say observers.
In recent weeks, the back-to-back state visits to Beijing by Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump have put China in the global spotlight. For some international analysts, the summits showcased China as a “stabilising force capable of hosting two major
Start-up founders are warning that capital gains reforms could cause unintended fallout and push investment overseas.
Experts from Thailand who aided the dramatic 2018 retrieval of a youth football team from a Thai cave joined rescue efforts on Monday to extract the seven people, Laotian state media said.
Occupant safety in a collision may not be guaranteed when the seats are semi-reclined.
Bangladesh’s possible purchase of the JF-17 is turning a routine fighter jet buy into a dangerous new flashpoint in the escalating India-China-Pakistan power struggle. This month, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported that Bangladesh could heighten security tensions with
Authorities also seized about RM103,070 (US$26,000) worth of illicit drugs, including MDMA, ecstasy pills and powder, and ketamine, narcotics investigations department director Hussein Omar Khan said in a statement late Monday (May 25).
The court said the man poisoned the tycoon for sidelining him after he helped secure a deal with Netflix for the 3 Body Problem.
MELBOURNE, May 26 - A coalition of environmentalists and Indigenous Australian activists camping in the city park where the main stadium for the 2032 Olympics will be built is holding firm against threats they will be forcibly removed to allow construction to start next week.
The moves highlight how elite AI engineers are now seen as strategic assets.
India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has said it would tackle undocumented migration as a priority.
China’s expanding nuclear industry is becoming a new instrument of geopolitical influence across Southeast Asia. From Vietnam to Indonesia, governments increasingly view nuclear energy as necessary to sustain industrial growth, AI infrastructure and rising electricity demand
The regional security forum opens on Friday (May 29) in Singapore with no official word yet on who will lead the Chinese delegation.
The group, who entered the cave on May 20, is trapped by a landslide triggered by heavy rain.
May 26 - A rescue team racing to save seven people trapped for days in a cave in Laos is getting closer to reaching them, the head of the operation said, after breaking through 15 m (16 yards) of obstacles in a day.
He said the technology had not claimed as many white-collar jobs as he had feared.
He pledged to devour the crustacean after the government budget.