DUBAI, Oct 27 - Iran needs to show good intentions for mediation efforts to succeed, mediator Qatar said on Tuesday, after a delegation from the Gulf Arab country visited Tehran earlier this week in an effort to de-escalate regional tensions in coordination with the United
Russia is courting the Taliban with one hand and arming the Taliban’s neighbor with the other. Moscow was the first country to recognize the Taliban, a diplomatic coup it has since tried to turn to its advantage. Now it is rushing weapons and border equipment to Tajikistan to
MADRID, Oct 26 - Spain has returned to Morocco more than a dozen sub-Saharan African and Asian migrants who reached the Spanish enclave of Ceuta and were turned down for asylum, the first deportation of its kind from the enclave since a mass border crossing in July.
As of February, Thailand had 42 data centres.
DUBAI, Oct 27 - Iran's Persian Gulf Strait Authority, a body set up by Tehran to manage passage requests in the Strait of Hormuz, said on Tuesday all vessels belonging to South Korean shipping company Sinokor would face \"legal action\" starting on November 1.
Indonesia’s leaders promise that the country will be a world power by 2045, the centennial of its independence. Yet when shares plunge or smoke drifts abroad, officials reflexively blame foreigners. That blame game asks nothing of those in charge. Who really owns our listed
DUBAI, Oct 27 - Iranian Security Council chief Mohsen Rezaei on Tuesday met Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, not seen in public since succeeding his slain father in March, a day after holding talks with representatives of Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan.
GUWAHATI, India, Oct 27 - India has deployed hundreds of additional security personnel in its remote northeast, authorities said on Tuesday, after youth protesters clashed with police last week over a plan to build a mega-dam to counter a Chinese hydropower project upstream.
ASEAN countries must strengthen energy supplies and infrastructure to weather future disruptions, Philippine Energy Secretary Sharon Garin told CNA’s Roland Lim.
The tests examined whether the model would act beyond a user’s instructions, evade human oversight or improperly influence people.
The proposed task force would facilitate information sharing, financial intelligence and cross-border evidence gathering.
Fuel surcharge for Nov 1 to Nov 15 was raised a notch up from Level 16 to 17 in second half of October.
Anthropic, developer of AI chatbot Claude, has filed its prospectus and is expected to go public on Wall Street in November at a valuation of up to US$2 trillion. That would make it the highest-valued initial public offering (IPO) ever, ahead of SpaceX’s $1.77 trillion listing
BEIJING, Oct 27 - A Chinese court on Tuesday handed Wang Huimin, a former anti-graft official at the China Securities Regulatory Commission, a death sentence with a two-year reprieve over corruption and said Wang illegally accepted more than 436 million yuan ($65 million).
Haze is much more than just particulate matter. It also includes a toxic mix of polluting gases.
He was accused of joining protests in Mumbai against the country’s election chief in October.
JYP Entertainment is home to K-pop groups Twice and Stray Kids.
BEIJING, Oct 27 - Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday extended condolences to the family of former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, who died last week, while calling on Japan's current leadership to \"safeguard the political foundation\" of ties that have been strained
The revised procedure may take longer, so travellers are advised to arrive early.
WASHINGTON, Oct 27 - Experts at a digital defense firm recently found that an Israeli ad tech company was heavily targeting users of Starlink's satellite internet service in a likely effort to spy on them, according to six people familiar with the matter.
The government cited a potential to to strengthen Indonesia's aviation industry as the reason.
Bio-based polyethylene straws had the worst impact in 10 of 16 categories studied.
Oct 27 - Kylian Mbappe has been dropped by a string of Chinese brands following a backlash to his alleged comments about a meme featuring an image resembling China's late leader Mao Zedong.
The permit allows it to export up to 700 tonnes of rare-earth carbonate from Perak.
BEIJING, Oct 27 - China is highly concerned about conflicts in the Middle East and surrounding regions and Beijing will send an envoy to the relevant countries in the near future, foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said at a daily press conference on Tuesday.
Thousands come to pray for success with their work or study visa applications.
Customers of five foreign exchange firms are reportedly affected by the GMO incident.
They argue it would trample upon investigative work and allow New Delhi to identify journalists’ sources.
Around 75 firefighters and 24 fire trucks were deployed.
SEOUL, Oct 27 - A fire broke out in Guryong village, a deprived area of Seoul's upmarket Gangnam district, on Tuesday, South Korean fire authorities said.
The France star had referred to the former Chinese leader as a "dictator" during an interview about memes.
The staged zombie attacks are part of a special programme offered by Seoul City Tour Bus.
An "oxygen bus" in Central Kalimantan is offering residents relief from choking wildfire haze, with medical staff administering oxygen as respiratory illnesses surge.
The alleged victim has repeatedly requested for an independent probe into the case.
GOA, India, Oct 27 - India has faced no pressure from the US to reduce its Russian crude imports, oil minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Tuesday at an industry event.
It exceeds refusal rates for applicants from several other major countries.
Nearly 50,000 people had been moved to shelters from vulnerable areas, according to Indian authorities.
China's Unitree Robotics has urged investors to exercise caution over the commercial prospects of humanoid robots.
Over 300,000 people in 7 Indonesian provinces were laid low by respiratory infections from August to October.
A leader who stood up to US President Donald Trump just won an election in Latin America’s biggest country, reversing a trend of new right-wing governments in the region over the past two years. Incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, having narrowly lost to Flavio Bolsonaro in
The US needs to creatively combine two counter-drone capabilities it already has and do it quickly to deal with swarm attacks of drones and cruise missiles. The Russians are already doing it. Counter-drone warfare is changing as the push for solutions gains momentum in the
Beijing’s and Taipei’s shared World War II history is a frequent source of tension.
TAIPEI, Oct 27 - Taiwan's defence minister on Tuesday said China was waging \"cognitive warfare\" after Beijing marked the anniversary of Japan's handover of the island to Chinese rule with satellite images of Taipei and a military propaganda poster.
Voters will elect a new parliament on 7 November with the cost of living among the key issues.
