The number of deaths on Australian roads has increased to the highest level in over a decade. Data published by NGO the Australian Automobile Association…
Cook Islands Prime Minister and Forum Chair Mark Brown has emphasized the importance of collaborative efforts with various development partners in supporting Pacific Island countries.…
Cook Islands Prime Minister and Forum Chairman Mark Brown has confirmed that Japan’s discharge of treated nuclear wastewater into the Pacific Ocean does not violate…
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Tuesday hailed an agreement by 14 Palestinian factions to set up an "interim national reconciliation government" to govern Gaza…
Japan's navy has located on the seabed the wreckage of two helicopters that crashed more than three months ago, killing eight crew members. The SH-60K…
Japan imposed asset-freeze sanctions on four individual Israeli settlers for violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, the government's top spokesperson said on July 23.…
Foreign and defense ministers from Japan and the United States will hold security talks on July 28 that for the first time will cover "extended…
Myanmar's acting president has taken medical leave and transferred his duties to military chief Min Aung Hlaing, the junta said on July 22. Myanmar has…
The Philippines "cannot yield" in territorial disputes, President Ferdinand Marcos said July 22, after a series of escalating confrontations with Beijing in the South China…
Police in Vietnam have arrested a former environment deputy minister and four other senior officials accused of violating mining regulations, following a wider investigation into…
Singapore's central bank is widely expected to keep monetary policy unchanged this week and hold off easing settings amid lingering risks to the inflation outlook…
The Bangladesh government said on July 23 it would heed a Supreme Court ruling that 93% of state jobs be open to competition, meeting a…
The number of arrests in days of violence in Bangladesh passed the 2,500 mark in an AFP tally on July 23, after protests over employment…
The Bangladeshi student group leading demonstrations that have spiraled into deadly violence suspended protests on July 22 for 48 hours, with its leader saying they…
Pakistan police raided the headquarters of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan's party on July 22, a week after the military-backed government vowed to ban…
A Sierra Leone court on July 22 found 11 people guilty of treason and other offenses in connection with what authorities have called an attempted…
Hungary and Slovakia asked the European Union on July 22 to intervene after accusing Ukraine of endangering their energy supply. Last month, Kyiv barred Russian…
The death toll from a landslide in a remote area of southern Ethiopia has risen to at least 146, a local official said on July…
Iraqi authorities seized record quantities of the potent stimulant captagon last year, at an estimated value of up to $144 million, with the country increasingly…
Police outside Paris have arrested a suspect in a fire that killed seven people last week in the southern city of Nice, a source familiar…
Police were out in force on the empty streets of the Ugandan capital Kampala on JUly 23 ahead of a planned anti-corruption rally that has…
Britain's new Labour interior minister on July 22 accused the previous, Conservative government of concealing the fact that it expected to spend 10 billion pounds…
The US envoy to the United Nations announced tens of millions of dollars in aid for Haiti during a visit a month after the first…
Protection of Brazil's Indigenous communities from violence by land grabbers and ranchers was "insufficient" in 2023, according to a report published on Monday, dashing hopes…
A Russian court has sentenced Alsu Kurmasheva, a Russian-American journalist for US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), to 6-1/2 years in prison for spreading false…
