The magnitude-5.0 earthquake that struck Bandung and Garut regencies in West Java on September 18 damaged 3,492 homes and affected 21,710 people, according to officials.…
UN member states voted September 18 to formally demand an end to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories within 12 months and sanctions for…
Two people were killed in a shooting at the Moscow office of Russian retailer Wildberries on September 18, an incident the CEO blamed on a…
The British government on September 18 said it summoned Russia's ambassador to condemn what it called Moscow's "unprecedented and unfounded public campaign of aggression against…
Attacks said to have taken place between rival militia factions have killed 11 people in north-east Democratic Republic of Congo, sources told AFP September 18.…
A clash between the Ethiopian army and rebels in a restive northwestern region has killed at least nine people, mostly civilians, local official and hospital…
Portugal's firefighters have mastered most of the deadly forest fires in the north of the country, according to official data September 19. And improving weather…
The daughter of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was released on September 18 after two years behind bars in Tehran's Evin prison, media outlets…
The US Justice Department filed a lawsuit on September 18 seeking more than $100 million from the Singapore owner and operator of a cargo ship…
The Czech government said September 18 it endorsed Britain's Rolls-Royce as a partner for the state-owned power group CEZ to develop small modular nuclear reactors…
Boeing said September 18 it would start temporary furloughs of professional and white-collar staff as it seeks to conserve cash amid a labor strike that…
A Bangladeshi student leader was beaten to death at his university campus in an apparent reprisal for attacks on protesters during the uprising that ousted…
Cash-strapped Sri Lanka will vote for its next president September 21 in an effective referendum on an unpopular International Monetary Fund austerity plan enacted after…
Sri Lanka reached a draft deal with creditors to restructure $12.5 billion of international bonds, it said on September 19, in a major boost to…
Relatives of civilians killed in a botched ambush by the Indian army said September 18 they were "disgusted" the Supreme Court had quashed criminal proceedings…
A Vietnamese property tycoon sentenced to death for fraud totalling $27 billion went on trial September 19 in a related case accused of money laundering.…
Malaysian authorities on September 19 arrested the chief executive and other senior managers of an Islamic conglomerate accused of running charity homes where children were…
The death toll in Myanmar in the wake of Typhoon Yagi has reached 268, with 88 people missing, the junta has said, as state media…
Bank customers in Singapore will need to use facial verification in an online process to approve their transactions, the country's financial regulator and banking association…
Thailand will prosecute eight former security personnel over their roles in a crackdown two decades ago in which 78 protesters suffocated or were crushed to…
A port in Cambodia's seaside city of Sihanoukville will enlarge its capacity nearly fivefold by 2030 with support from the Japanese government. The terminal completed…
A Hong Kong man was sentenced to 14 months in jail on September 19 for wearing a T-shirt with protest slogans found to be "seditious"…
China will begin imposing tariffs on agricultural imports from Taiwan in retaliation to similar moves by the island's government, Chinese state media said September 18.…
China imposed sanctions on nine US defence firms on September 18, the foreign ministry said, describing the measures as retaliation for Washington's approval of military…
A Taiwanese court on September 18 sentenced a former Chinese naval captain to eight months in prison for illegally entering the self-governing island by boat.…
