MOSCOW - The Kremlin said on Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump's envoy, Steve Witkoff, and a host of other key U.S. officials would come to Moscow next week for talks on a possible peace plan for Ukraine.
BANGKOK - Authorities in Thailand plan to send helicopters on Wednesday to evacuate critically-ill patients from a southern hospital marooned by some of the region's worst floods in years, as the death toll rose to 33, with more rain expected.
LONDON - The British government's decision to ban pro-Palestinian campaign group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation will be challenged in court on Wednesday, with lawyers representing a co-founder arguing it is a misuse of anti-terrorism laws.
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Han has been charged with aiding and abetting Yoon's role as a "ringleader of an insurrection".
The authorities warn that Typhoon Verbena could bring another round of widespread heavy rain from Nov 28.
MUMBAI - India said it had registered a strong protest with China over what it said was the arbitrary detention of an Indian citizen at Shanghai Airport.
Traders must display clear price tags and use verified weighing and measuring tools, said a Johor official.
Thailand's Sihasak Phuangketkeow called for Myanmar's release of detained democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
The majority of buyers were registered in Taiwan and some were from Singapore.
The current minimum five-year residency requirement to obtain nationality may be increased.
Cyclone seeds, weather formations that can become tropical cyclones, are behind the extreme weather.
The 123m-tall Ferris wheel is billed as the tallest one in the country.
The submission was a prerequisite for reducing the levy on South Korean vehicles to 15 per cent.
The arrival of Chinese immigrants in Hong Kong has increased demand for rental housing.
A snap election could come as soon as January.
Southeast Asia is enduring one of its wettest seasons in recent memory, with record floods, consecutive typhoons and widespread displacement testing the region's capacity to adapt.
The deadly floods have affected 2 million people, the majority of whom are still cut off from help.
Dharma Harun, who starred in popular Malay movies in the 80s, was found dead at his home on Tuesday (Nov 25).
Beijing views Taiwan as its own territory and has not ruled out the use of force to take control of it.
The United States’ ability to build vital maritime ships and submarines was pivotal to its rise as a global superpower. However, longstanding complacency has caused the US shipbuilding industry to stagnate, undermining its readiness for today’s pressing security challenges. The
He said six active faults were identified in the peninsula.
BEIJING - China warned on Wednesday it would \"crush\" any foreign attempts to interfere over Taiwan, after Japan announced plans to deploy missiles on an island near democratically-governed Taiwan.
DHAKA - A massive fire tore through one of Dhaka’s largest slums on Tuesday evening, leaving thousands of people homeless and turning rows of tin-roofed shanties into charred rubble, officials said.
A Taiwanese YouTuber described being attacked in Hongdae by a group of men she said fit the Hongdae guy stereotype.
The two had been connected by a rope when they fell to their deaths from Mount Cook, or Aoraki.
The extra spending would go towards "significant new arms acquisitions from the US, but also vastly enhance Taiwan's asymmetrical capabilities", said President Lai Ching-te.
The 79-year-old man called police to say he was tired of caring for his mother.
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE - U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday backed away from a Thursday deadline for Ukraine to agree to a U.S.-backed peace plan, saying \"the deadline for me is when it's over.\"
Selling used cooking oil has become a side income for residents near Indonesia’s largest refinery, a vital supply link in the nation’s sustainable aviation fuel plans.
Hakyung Lee killed her two kids and hid their bodies in suitcases months after her husband died of cancer.
WASHINGTON - Democratic U.S. Senator Edward Markey on Tuesday urged President Donald Trump not to resume explosive nuclear weapons testing, saying that doing so could spur rival nuclear powers Russia and China to do the same.
A South Korean-born New Zealand woman was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for murdering her two young children, whose bodies were discovered in suitcases in an abandoned storage locker more than three years ago, New Zealand media reported.
Taiwan has faced calls from Washington to spend more on its own defence.
TAIPEI - Taiwan will introduce a $40 billion supplementary defence budget to underscore its determination to defend itself, with \"significant\" new U.S. arms purchases planned, President Lai Ching-te said in a Washington Post op-ed essay.
Families have been evacuated to temporary relief centres to avoid the floods.
The outage near Melbourne impacted around 14,000 users.
The outage near Melbourne impacted around 14,000 users.
Operations have been focused largely on the southern commercial hub Hat Yai.
Growing proximity to the Taliban regime marks one of the most dramatic recalibrations of New Delhi’s assertive and innovative foreign policy in recent years. What began in the summer of 2021 as cautious, back-channel humanitarian contact to ensure safe exit of Indians as the
Korea-born Lee Hakyung killed her 2 children in 2018, then stuffed their bodies into suitcases.
Electric vehicles, noise-reducing surfaces and no-honking zones are dampening the din of Beijing, says Eleanor Olcott for Financial Times.
A flurry of recent diplomatic activity has seen two competing peace plans for Ukraine emerge. The first, widely touted as a US plan, was apparently hashed out between Kremlin insider Kirill Dmitriev and Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump’s Russia point-man. The second,
CAIRO - Israel said it had received from the Red Cross on Tuesday the remains of a deceased hostage who had been held by Palestinian militants in Gaza, with the bodies of two still to be located more than six weeks into a fragile ceasefire.
WASHINGTON - Japan has dismissed a Chinese letter to the United Nations accusing Tokyo of threatening armed intervention over Taiwan as \"inconsistent with the facts and unsubstantiated\".
LONDON - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Tuesday told a Coalition of the Willing meeting that London was \"ready to move\" with the European Union on providing financial support to Ukraine based on the value of \"immobilised\" assets.