Families of victims of human rights abuses committed under former President Suharto have condemned a proposal by national assembly members to give the deceased authoritarian…
Eleven police officers, including a district police chief, are under investigation by the Jakarta Police’s Internal Affairs Division (Propam) over the forced dispersal of a…
Russia plans to boost its defense budget by almost 30% next year as it diverts resources to its Ukraine offensive, spending more on the military…
At least 100 people have been killed after destructive floods ripped through the US southeast, officials said September 30, with the emergency response effort fast…
NATO's new chief Mark Rutte on October 1 downplayed fears over the impact of a potential Donald Trump victory in upcoming US elections and pledged…
The UN Security Council extended on September 30 its authorization of the multinational policing mission in crime-ravaged Haiti, but without any call to transform it…
Four employees of Canadian mining company Barrick Gold arrested in Mali last week have been released, a judicial source said on September 30. Barrick Gold…
Dockworkers at major ports along the US East and Gulf Coasts went on strike October 1 after last-minute negotiations yielded no new labor contract, a…
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said October 1 he was released after years of incarceration only because he pleaded guilty to doing "journalism", warning that freedom…
Austria entered uncharted territory September 30 after the far right scored a historic national election win, with parties facing an uphill task to form a…
California Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill aimed at regulating powerful artificial intelligence models following pushback from tech giants and critics who argued the…
A former doctor went on trial in Paris on October 1 accused of genocide in Rwanda, the latest suspect to face justice in France three…
Indian-administered Kashmir was voting October 1 in the third and final round of polls to elect its first government since the insurgency-wracked territory was brought…
Sri Lanka's new government said October 1 it would "review" a $12.5 billion sovereign bond debt restructure deal announced last month as part of efforts…
An Indian environmental activist was detained by police outside New Delhi at the end of a month-long climate protest march on foot from the Himalayas,…
The International Monetary Fund pledged to work with Bangladesh’s interim government to regain economic stability as the country struggles to reduce pressure on foreign exchange…
A devastating fire tore through a Thai bus carrying 44 students and teachers on a school trip October 1, officials said, with up to 25…
An award-winning Cambodian journalist known for his reporting on human trafficking in the cyber scam industry has been arrested, police said October 1. Mech Dara…
President Ferdinand Marcos inaugurated on September 30 the first factory for electric vehicle batteries in the Philippines, calling it the "future" of clean energy. The…
Google plans to invest $1 billion to build digital infrastructure in Thailand, including a new data centre, the US tech giant has announced, saying the…
Facebook parent Meta will produce its next-generation virtual and augmented reality headsets in Vietnam, creating more than 1,000 jobs, the company said October 1. The…
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un would face the end of his regime if he ever used his isolated country's nuclear weapons against the South,…
Japan got a new prime minister on October 1, with Shigeru Ishiba setting out to jumpstart a lacklustre economy, defuse a demographic crisis and build…
President Xi Jinping reiterated his call for China to "reunite" with Taiwan, the self-ruled island China claims as its own, during an address on the…
Six of China's biggest banks said they would tweak interest rates on existing mortgages following a request to lower them from Beijing's central bank, state…
