A fuel tanker explosion in northern Nigeria has killed almost 100 people and left 50 injured, police said on October 16. Many of the victims…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on October 16 ruled out ceding any of the country's territory to Russia while presenting a long-awaited "Victory Plan" to parliament.…
A judge in the closely watched US swing state of Georgia blocked a new rule October 15 that would have required election workers to hand-count…
A navy ship carrying migrants intercepted in Italian waters docked early October 16 in Albania, nearly a year after Rome and Tirana reached a controversial…
Several hundred mourners on October 15 attended a mass funeral service for 19 victims of the devastating floods and landslides that hit Bosnia earlier this…
Two human rights groups on October 15 accused Yemen's Huthi rebels of arbitrarily arresting dozens of people for celebrating the anniversary of a 1962 coup…
Uganda said October 15 it had signed a $3 billion deal with a Turkish company to build an electric railway line that will link the…
The Colombian government said October 15 it had granted the country's Indigenous groups new environmental authority on their lands, just days before hosting the UN's…
A UK lawmaker was October 16 to introduce into parliament legislation that would legalise assisted dying, setting up the first vote on the emotive issue…
Airbus plans to cut up to 2,500 jobs in its struggling satellite division, a source said October 16 -- the latest sign of trouble for…
Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar arrived in Pakistan on October 15 for a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit, the first top Delhi diplomat to visit…
Samsung Electronics workers in southern India have ended a month-long strike over pay and working conditions after "welfare measures" were agreed, the state industry minister…
The Maldives president has sacked more than 225 political appointees, including ministers, in a bid to reduce the cash-strapped Indian Ocean nation's expenditure, his office…
At least two TV channels in a northern Afghan province stopped showing images of living beings during their broadcasts, journalists told AFP on October 15,…
Malaysia's nearly 100-year-old former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has been hospitalised for a respiratory infection, his aide told AFP October 16. The two-time former prime…
Singapore on October 15 scrambled fighter jets to escort an Air India Express plane after an email warning about a possible bomb on board, the…
Singapore's parliament passed a law on October 15 that would ban deepfakes and other digitally manipulated content of candidates during elections. The Elections (Integrity of…
Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing will travel to close ally China next month, two sources close to the military told AFP October 16, in…
A Chinese cybersecurity association recommended on October 16 a review of products that semiconductor giant Intel sells in the country, accusing it of threatening national…
North Korea claimed October 16 that more than a million young people had signed up for or rejoined the army this week after Pyongyang accused…
Eleven countries, including South Korea, the United States and Japan, will launch a new joint mechanism to monitor North Korea sanctions violations, Seoul's foreign ministry…
A record number of women are running in Japan's general election this month, although they still account for less than a quarter of candidates, local…
French-owned historic nickel mining company Société Le Nickel (SLN) is putting its historic mining site in Thio (East Coast of the main island) into stand-by…
Safata district villagers in Samoa, where the Navy vessel HMNZ Manawanui sank, will meet with Samoan officials on October 18 to push for compensation. Tafitoala,…
Airline Qantas will fly passengers from Brisbane to Palau's largest city, Koror, as part of an Australian government-supported push to boost aviation and tourism in…
