The Foreign Affairs Ministry has called for all parties in the Middle East to stop escalating the region’s ongoing conflict following Iranian attacks against Israel…
The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) and the Communication and Information Ministry on September 27 launched a new disaster early warning system based on…
Police personnel have been deployed to Wosera in East Sepik province, where a tribal conflict between two villages has raged since late September, provincial police…
The Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) has established five new infantry battalions to be deployed in conflict-prone areas of Papua including regions that border with Papua…
The central government plans to subsidize fees for private schools starting in 2025, Prime Minister James Marape said on October 2. He said the move…
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is among Pacific Island countries with a high debt distress risk, a report from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said. ADB…
Australian oil and gas firm Santos signed a medium-term liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply agreement with TotalEnergies. The contract will start in the fourth quarter…
The administration of Northern province will receive 100 reserve police officers from Southern Highlands to resolve a backlog of criminal cases and rising crimes, an…
China urged world powers on October 2 to prevent the situation in the Middle East from "further deteriorating" following the latest escalation in the region.…
Iran resumed flights at its airports on Thursday, state media said, after a brief suspension following its missile attack on Israel. The Islamic republic launched…
Britain on Thursday said it would give up sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius but under what US President Joe Biden called a "historic…
The prosecution of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was "politically motivated" and had a "chilling" effect on the whole media landscape, the parliamentary arm of pan-European…
The United Nations Wednesday said it had released $5 million to help flood victims in Nigeria, where the rainy season has killed more than 300…
The EU said Thursday it was referring Hungary to the European Court of Justice over laws passed by Budapest to curb foreign influence in the…
More than 700,000 people are now displaced from their homes in Haiti, more than half of whom are children, the United Nations said October 2,…
NATO's new chief Mark Rutte visited Kyiv on Thursday, a major show of support for Ukraine in his maiden trip in the role. Kyiv relies…
Tunisian authorities have arrested 12 people including a smuggler involved in organising a recent crossing that killed 15 migrants after their boat capsized, the coastguard…
The European Commission on October 2 said it was proposing to postpone by a year a ban on imports of products driving deforestation, following strong…
Bangladesh's interim government has recalled five envoys, including the ambassador to neighbouring India, in a major diplomatic reshuffle, a foreign ministry official said on October…
Bhutan has signed a deal with India's Reliance Group to build 1,270 megawatts' worth of renewable electricity projects in the Himalayan nation as it seeks…
An Indian factory producing iPhone components was resuming work on October 3 after a fire that halted production -- the third blaze to disrupt Apple's…
Nepal is looking to send more workers to Japan, especially those who will qualify for skilled visas, Nepal's labor minister told Nikkei in an interview…
Vietnam's foreign ministry condemned on October 2 China's "brutal behaviour" during a violent attack on Vietnamese fishers in the disputed South China Sea. The 10…
A Singaporean former minister was sentenced October 3 to 12 months in prison for obstruction of justice and accepting illegal gifts in the city-state's first…
A rumbling volcano south of the Philippine capital erupted in a cocktail of ash and steam on October 2, prompting public health warnings but causing…
