Sri Lanka's navy arrested nine Indian fishermen who were poaching in the country's territorial waters on July 23 morning, the navy said in a statement.…
The Sri Lanka cabinet approved the implementation of a national social protection policy, the government's information department said on July 23. The department said President…
The commander of Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, at war with the army for over a year, agreed late on July 23 to ceasefire talks…
Eight crew members have died and five are missing after their fishing vessel encountered bad weather near the Falkland Islands, east of Argentina, Spanish authorities…
Authorities in the western Canadian province of Alberta have ordered evacuations of the popular Jasper National Park and nearby towns due to approaching forest fires.…
Dozens of people who joined scattered anti-corruption rallies in the capital Kampala on July 23 in defiance of an official ban have been charged and…
Amor Nouira, a farmer in Tunisia's Chebika village, has lost hope of saving his prickly pear cacti, ravaged by the cochineal insect spreading across North…
A team of UN investigators said on July 23 they had met in Chad with victims of violence in Sudan's brutal civil war and had…
Italian prosecutors investigating a shipwreck which killed 94 migrants in 2023 accused two members of the coast guard and four police officers on July 23…
French President Emmanuel Macron's office on July 23 said he was pressing Danish authorities not to extradite arrested anti-whaling activist Paul Watson to Japan. Watson,…
The World Health Organization voiced alarm on July 23 at the prospect of outbreaks of polio and other diseases in war-ravaged Gaza, amid an already…
Violence against women and girls in England and Wales is a "national emergency" with almost 3,000 offenses recorded daily, police warned in a new report…
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…
