A Taiwanese court on September 2 ordered the release of a former Taipei mayor and presidential candidate arrested over the weekend as part of a…
One woman has died, schools have been shuttered and tens of thousands of people were without power September 2, as wild storms lashed Australia. Police…
Tens of thousands of people in Australia's Tasmania state were without power on September 1 after a cold front brought damaging winds and heavy rains,…
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s approval rating fell to the lowest level since he took office in 2022 as voters reported mounting struggles with the…
The Pacific Policing Initiative (PPI) endorsed at the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) leaders meeting in Tonga last week needs "national consultation", Solomon Islands prime minister…
Kina Securities Limited has announced a net profit after tax of 42.2 million kina for the first half of 2024. The figure is a decrease…
Dozens of vehicles were damaged in an arson attack at a yard used as a temporary storage for showrooms in Porebada district, Central province on…
The Morobe government has distributed a 25-million-kina Wafi-Golpu infrastructure development grant (IDG) to the business arms of the landowner associations. The 18.5-billion-kina mining project is…
The University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG) Students Representative Council (SRC) on August 30 presented a petition to the central government to address issues including…
Many small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) owe the central government more than 100 million kina in taxes over the past 10 years, an accounting firm Countrywide Accounting…
More work needs to be done before the displaced residents from Manam Island in Bogia district, Madang province are resettled at Andarum, Manam Resettlement Authority…
A 17-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped, gang raped, killed and hanged in Kairuku district, Central province. The victim’s parents said their daughter was found dead…
A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck off the coast of Papua New Guinea's Bougainville Island on September 1, the US Geological Survey (USGS) showed. The quake…
The development of Nusantara, the country's new capital city in East Kalimantan, has increased the risk of drought and undermined clean water supplies at the…
Authorities have announced that traffic will be diverted on several roads in Jakarta during Pope Francis's visit from September 3 to 6. Syafrin Liputo, the…
A block on Elon Musk's X social network in Brazil started to take effect early August 31 after a Supreme Court judge ordered its suspension,…
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris said August 31 that her Republican rival Donald Trump "disrespected sacred ground" at a US military cemetery during a contentious…
A polio vaccination campaign officially began September 1 in the Gaza Strip where the United Nations has announced "humanitarian pauses" to allow for large-scale innoculation,…
Algeria has been approved for membership in the BRICS New Development Bank (NDB), the country’s finance ministry has announced. The decision was taken on August…
Russia on September 1 marks the 20th anniversary of the Beslan school massacre, when over 330 people -- more than half of them children --…
The prosecutor pursuing US election interference charges against Donald Trump and the former president's lawyers have clashed over next steps in the case, according to…
UNICEF said August 31 that it has launched an emergency tender for mpox vaccines to help countries hardest hit by the recent outbreak of the…
The UN's deputy secretary-general welcomed food aid reaching Sudan but said it is insufficient as she visited a border post in Chad to witness the…
Power was restored across Venezuela on August 31 morning, after a massive 12-hour outage plunged the entire country into darkness. The government has blamed "sabotage"…
Voters in two former East German states go to the polls September 1 in elections expected to deal a blow to Chancellor Olaf Scholz's government…
