The New Zealand government is making changes to provide open work rights to more partners of migrant workers, allowing them to work for any employer.…
A Japanese nuclear reactor with an upgraded anti-tsunami wall was set to restart October 29 in a region near the crippled Fukushima plant, according to…
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's ruling party was reportedly locked in talks to form new alliances October 29 after losing its parliamentary majority in an…
North Korea has sent 10,000 troops to train in Russia and likely fight Ukraine in weeks, Washington said, as Seoul warned October 29 that the…
China confirmed on October 29 it had detained a South Korean citizen for alleged spying, as Beijing ramps up vigilance against perceived threats to national…
The Philippines is confident in the continuity of US policies in the Asia-Pacific region after the US presidential election, its defence chief said, underlining that…
Malaysia's nearly 100-year-old former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has been discharged from hospital, his office said October 29, almost two weeks after he was admitted…
An advocacy group urged Thailand to help secure the swift release of more than 100 victims of alleged human trafficking, saying that a “Chinese mafia…
Police in Malaysia are on the hunt for the mastermind behind the alleged kidnapping of a foreign businessman who was enroute to the Kuala Lumpur…
Indian troops shot dead three suspected rebels in Kashmir hours after gunmen sprayed a military convoy and an ambulance with bullets, the army said October…
Indian police detained two people October 29 after a temple fireworks show erupted into a ferocious explosion, leaving almost a hundred people in hospital, eight…
The once luxurious palace of Bangladesh's autocratic ex-leader Sheikh Hasina will become a museum to honour the revolution that ousted her, the leader of the…
Canada and the US must get tougher on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government for trying to silence dissidents on foreign soil, a controversial Sikh…
Israel's parliament on October 28 banned the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) from operating in Israel and occupied east Jerusalem, despite objections from…
Rape is widespread in Sudan's civil war, a United Nations investigation said October 29, accusing paramilitaries especially of committing sexual violence on a "staggering" scale.…
Police in Mozambique killed at least 11 people and injured more than 50 others in violence after a disputed presidential election this month, Human Rights…
Sweden has halted government level cooperation with Georgia over restrictions on civil society groups in the Caucusus state, Sweden's foreign trade minister told AFP October…
France and Morocco reached agreements on October 28 totalling "up to ten billion euros", sources with direct knowledge to the matter told AFP, during French…
The administration of President Joe Biden has finalized curbs on US investments in sensitive technologies like semiconductors in China that pose a threat to national…
A former US Marine was sentenced to seven years in prison on October 28 for his role in a white supremacist plot to destroy power…
Iranian authorities on October 28 executed German-Iranian Jamshid Sharmahd, who had been detained since 2020, the judiciary's Mizan website said. "After going through the judicial…
Bolivia's government on October 28 accused former president Evo Morales of falsely claiming he was the victim of a state-backed assassination attempt, saying police fired…
The deputy mayor of a city in Cameroon's English-speaking north hit by separatist violence has been killed after being abducted by armed assailants, CRTV state…
Prime Minister James Marape said that more than eight million Papua New Guineans have already been counted in the ongoing national census and emphasized that…
Chief superintendent Benjamin Turi was appointed as the acting Assistant Police Commissioner for the National Capital District (NCD) and Central by National Police chief David…
