Australia, Japan and the US on November 17 committed to closer military cooperation in training their forces as the countries deepened their ties in a…
Dozens of bushfires were burning across Australia's Victoria state November 17, authorities said, forcing the evacuation of residents and destroying at least one home. Strong…
The Speaker of Parliament in Vanuatu has accepted two motions one seeking to remove the president and the prime minister of the republic. Vanuatu is…
New Caledonia's Progressist Union in Melanesia (UPM), one of the historic founding members of FLNKS (Kanak socialist National Liberation Front), has announced its official withdrawal…
South Korea's LG Display will inject another $1 billion into its factory in Vietnam, local authorities said November 15, pushing the firm's total investment in…
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba expressed "serious concerns" over the situation in the South China Sea to Chinese President Xi Jinping in their first in-person…
Eight people were killed and 17 others wounded November 16 in a knife attack at a vocational school in eastern China, and the suspect --…
A man apprehended by Chinese police for killing 35 people when he rammed his car into a crowd was formally placed under arrest on November…
A Taiwanese fishing boat captain held in China for more than four months on allegations of illegal fishing has been released after paying a fine,…
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on November 15 called for greater cooperation with Beijing on "regional peace and stability," having met with his Chinese…
Super Typhoon Man-yi uprooted trees, brought down power lines and ripped off corrugated iron roofing as it swept across the storm-weary Philippines on November 17,…
Suffocating under a mountain of debt to China, communist Laos is struggling to tame rampant inflation, with food prices rising so sharply that a growing…
Thailand arrested 70 immigrants, including 30 children, who were suspected of being Rohingya in the country illegally from Myanmar, a Thai official said on November…
Singapore's public and private sectors are ramping up efforts to combat deepfakes and other digitally manipulated content, planning ahead for a general election to be…
A fire at the neonatal unit of an Indian hospital killed 10 newborns, authorities said November 16, with another 39 rescued from a blaze blamed…
An Indian state riven by months of ethnic tensions imposed an internet shutdown and curfew November 16 after angry protests over the recovery of six…
Separatists fired on a paramilitary border post in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province, killing seven soldiers, local authorities said November 16, a week after the same…
Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake thanked voters November 15 for delivering his leftist coalition a landslide victory in snap parliamentary elections that repudiated establishment…
Pakistan's most populated province of Punjab on November 15 extended school closures in smog-hit major cities by a week, with thousands hospitalised as the country…
Russia on November 17 pummelled Ukraine with one of the largest barrages of the grinding near-three-year war, Ukrainian officials said, forcing power cuts with fears…
Chinese President Xi Jinping warned the United States on November 16 not to cross a "red line" in support for Taiwan, but told his counterpart…
Iran's foreign minister said in an interview on November 16 that an opportunity exists for nuclear negotiations with the West, but that it is "limited".…
Brazil's left-wing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva issued a scathing broadside against "neoliberalism" on November 16, ahead of hosting leaders at a G20 summit…
US President-elect Donald Trump nominated fracking magnate and climate change skeptic Chris Wright as energy secretary on November 16, tasking him with "cutting red tape"…
Georgians protested on November 16 as the poll commission rubber-stamped the ruling party's victory in a controversial parliamentary vote marked by claims of Russian meddling…
