Pope Francis decried the state of democracy and warned against "populists" during a short visit to Trieste in Italy's northeast on July 7 ahead of…
Lashing rains in Nepal causing flash floods and landslides have killed at least 14 people across the country, with disaster teams searching for nine missing,…
A Sikh separatist and a Kashmiri politician temporarily left jail July 5 to be sworn into India's parliament after both men won resounding victories in…
Eight people were arrested in India on July 6 for the murder of a politician who championed the rights of lower-caste Indians, police said. K.…
An Indian preacher whose latest sermon ended in a deadly stampede said July 6 morning he was "deeply distressed" in his first public response to…
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said on July 6 that China's largest coastguard vessel has anchored in Manila's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the South…
Malaysia’s ruling coalition failed to wrest a seat in a by-election in Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s home state on July 6, with party leaders blaming…
The Myanmar junta's second-in-command arrived in China on July 6 for an official visit, the junta's information team said, as clashes with ethnic minority fighters…
Six people in Myanmar's biggest city have tested positive for cholera, a junta spokesman said on July 6, adding it had ordered the temporary closure…
Chinese officials raced July 6 to stem floods caused by a dam breach in central China, state media reported, as the Asian nation grapples with…
Polls opened July 7 to elect a new Tokyo governor with incumbent Yuriko Koike challenged by opposition figure Renho, two prominent women in Japan's male-dominated…
The man who stabbed South Korea's then-opposition leader Lee Jae-myung in January and left him hospitalised was sentenced to 15 years in prison on July…
Taiwan's central bank said on July 7 that it has no timetable for launching a digital currency, warning the process will be "huge and complex",…
Papua New Guinea's influential petroleum minister has been charged with assault following a "domestic dispute" near Sydney's famed Bondi Beach, Australian police said July 7.…
New Zealand is set to send civil servants to Niue on short-term trips to help bolster its public sector. It was announced following a bilateral…
Around 100 asylum seekers are again being held in Australia's offshore processing centre in Nauru, after numbers dropped to zero in June last year. Mohammad…
The leaders of China and Russia on July 4 urged their allies and partners to resist malign external influence, advancing their shared anti-Western agenda at…
The European Union on July 4 slapped extra provisional duties of up to 38 percent on Chinese electric car imports because of "unfair" state subsidies,…
The UN rights chief voiced alarm July 3 at a hardening of rhetoric, including hate speech and dehumanising language against migrants and other minorities, linked…
New Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof on July 3 pledged continued "financial, military, and political support" for Ukraine, as he took aim at Russia in…
Joe Biden is "absolutely not" pulling out of the White House race, his spokeswoman said July 3, as pressure mounted on the president following his…
Ten people died when a house fire broke out near Guinea's capital Conakry in the early hours of July 3 morning, the government of the…
Britain's political leaders made a frantic push for votes late July 3 in the last hours of an election campaign expected to return a Labour…
Thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate as a wildfire rages out of control in northern California, with a swathe of the United States…
US officials on July 3 reported the country's fourth human case of bird flu linked to the current outbreak of the virus in dairy cattle.…
