May 9 - Qatari LNG tanker Al Kharaitiyat was sailing towards the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday after departing Qatar's Ras Laffan en route to Port Qasim in Pakistan, according to LSEG shipping data.
Kota Tinggi district police said the accident involved a Ferrari driven by a 34-year-old man, with a 33-year-old woman as the front passenger.
Kikuo Hatakeyama, 72, has served as the mayor of Hachirogata in north-east Japan since 2008, but fell ill in February.
Some 275 people face charges of gambling and money laundering, a police official said.
Mr Reza Selang tried saving the climbers, but a boulder pinned them, and he was forced to leave them behind.
Mr Reza tried saving the climbers, but a boulder pinned them. He was forced to leave them behind, a decision that deeply haunts him.
The result is in line with a surge of electoral support for far-right populist parties globally.
SYDNEY, May 9 - Australian far-right populist party Pauline Hanson's One Nation won its first seat in the country's House of Representatives in a byelection on Saturday, a preliminary vote count showed.
MOSCOW, May 9 - The Kremlin on Saturday said that the United States was in a hurry to clinch a peace deal to end the Ukraine war but that getting to any sort of agreement was a very long way off because the issues were so complicated.
Thailand’s Interior Ministry warned that those who break the law could be deported immediately.
Since first hitting the headlines, Punch has slowly integrated into his troop and made friends.
Doubao had 345 million monthly active users in March 2026.
Two Singaporean hikers remain missing despite their locations having been identified.
Pallegama Hemarathana was arrested at a private hospital where he had sought treatment.
Local police said they were “investigating security implications”.
WASHINGTON/CAIRO, May 9 - A state of relative calm prevailed around the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, after days of sporadic flare-ups, as the United States waited for Iran's response to its latest proposals to end more than two months of fighting and begin peace talks.
Local police are "investigating security implications" after assault rifles, explosives, grenades and anti-personnel mines were found at the man's home, near the beach resort of Pattaya.
ASEAN already has a rice stockpile with China, Japan and Korea. The question is whether the region could pursue something similar for energy, says Singapore’s prime minister.
The local authorities in April had imposed a climbing ban after increased volcanic activity.
While the US-Israel war on Iran has produced new risks for China's economy, its trade has so far appeared to be weathering the disruptions.
As geopolitical competition intensifies across multiple regions, countries capable of maintaining working relationships with rival powers are becoming increasingly valuable. While global attention remains centered on major-power rivalry, another category of states is quietly
For three decades after the Cold War, Washington operated under a dangerous assumption: that military supremacy could indefinitely compensate for diplomatic exhaustion. The United States possessed the world’s most advanced armed forces, unmatched naval reach, and a financial
Deployment of the "new-type 155-millimetre self-propelled gun-howitzer" would potentially place Seoul within striking range.
As he struggles to force Iran’s capitulation, US President Donald Trump issued what seemed to be yet another threat to commit an act of mass destruction against the country through nuclear warfare. When negotiations have faltered in recent weeks, Trump has on multiple occasions
Ravi Kant’s recent Asia Times essay argues that the next world order will not be built like the old ones. Pax Britannica rested on sea lanes and finance. Pax Americana rested on markets, media and military reach. But the next global order, Kant suggests, will be organized
Dr Dzulkefly said the infection should not be taken lightly, as its complications can potentially be fatal.
Globally, hundreds of millions of users now interact regularly with AI companions. The World Health Organization has declared loneliness a global health threat. AI companions offer an immediate, if unproven, response. In 2014, Microsoft launched Xiaoice in China, an AI
Authorities have arrested hundreds of foreign nationals in recent months as Sri Lanka intensifies a sweeping crackdown on suspected cyber scam operations.
Duterte plans to hire a replacement counsel, whose name was redacted in the document.
Amid the deepening energy crisis, leaders are urging the grouping to step up energy resilience.
Kim Jong Un also reportedly pledged North Korea's continued commitment to a bilateral pact, signed in 2024, that includes a mutual defence provision.
Indonesia’s disaster mitigation agency says the hikers’ locations were identified on Friday (May 8), but rescue efforts have been hampered by extreme terrain and heightened volcanic activity.
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te said while he appreciated the funding, this was only the first step.
TAIPEI, May 9 - Further delays to Taiwan military spending are a \"concession\" to China, the U.S. State Department said, as Taipei's defence ministry detailed the impact of projects excluded from a package passed by the opposition-controlled parliament.
Search teams resumed efforts on May 9 to find three missing hikers, including two Singaporeans, stranded on Mount Dukono.
The body of the female Indonesian hiker was found 600m from the crater.
A former ally of Mamata Banerjee, the BJP leader will be West Bengal’s next chief minister.
It is also constructing specialised infrastructure in the Spratly archipelago, said a US think-tank.
WASHINGTON, May 8 - Vietnam has expanded its island building in the South China Sea's disputed Spratly archipelago in the past year, adding 534 acres (216.1 hectares) of land, and has also begun to construct specialized infrastructure there, a U.S. think tank reported.
The robot pauses at the edge of the room as an engineer checks its sensors. Then, with a soft mechanical hum, this humanoid machine begins to move. It lifts a mannequin from a bed, slowly and carefully. The engineers hold their breath. I am in a robotics lab in Tokyo, Japan, as
WASHINGTON, May 8 - The U.S. Treasury on Friday announced sanctions against 10 individuals and companies, including several in China and Hong Kong, for aiding efforts by Iran's military to secure weapons and raw materials used to build Tehran's Shahed drones.
May 8 - Washington has revised its proposed U.N. resolution demanding Iran halt attacks and mining in the Strait of Hormuz but the changes are unlikely to avert Chinese and Russian vetoes, diplomats said on Friday.
“The Iran war weakens deterrence in Asia, undercuts confidence of US allies and partners, and makes conflict with China more likely.” That’s become an article of faith among those opposing the US fight with Iran. The US military – the navy in particular – is indeed smaller than
Most Australians do not want the women and children to come home, but advocates say they're in danger.
Russia’s inability to conquer Ukraine is spurring unusually harsh public complaints over both the lack of military progress and the growing economic costs of the war, a pair of failures being blamed on President Vladimir Putin’s leadership. The damage caused by bombardments by