China has renewed efforts to curry favour in Pacific island nations, a new report found November 20, after charting a "resurgence" in Beijing-backed aid and…
Social media companies could be fined more than US$30 million if they fail to keep children off their platforms, under new laws tabled before Australia's…
The chief executive and two employees of the Australian company Resolute Mining were released from detention in Mali on November 20, a judicial source and…
An advanced Chinese warship thought to play a key role in the country's South China Sea and Taiwan strategies sailed into Hong Kong on November…
China unveiled new measures on November 21 to boost foreign trade, as Beijing battles to turn around a slowing economy threatened further by the potentially…
Chinese internet giant Baidu on November 21 posted a decline in quarterly revenue, the latest indication of slumping sales this year as the firm pushes…
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's new minority government won backing on November 20 from a kingmaker opposition group for an economic stimulus package, the party's…
Four foreign tourists have died after a suspected mass methanol poisoning from drinking tainted alcohol at a backpacker hotspot in Laos, Western government officials and…
The death toll from Super Typhoon Man-yi in the Philippines has risen to 12, the national disaster agency said November 21 as widespread flooding subsided.…
Children made up nearly 40 percent of the more than 3.4 million people in Myanmar displaced by civil war and climate change-driven extreme weather, the…
A Myanmar ethnic armed group has arrested more than 760 Chinese citizens suspected of being involved in online scams and handed them over to China,…
A Thai woman believed to be among the worst serial killers in the kingdom's history was convicted and sentenced to death November 20 for poisoning…
A Chinese fugitive evading capture in Vietnam has been apprehended after authorities discovered he was using the identity of another Chinese national who was also…
Sri Lanka's new leader on November 21 backed a controversial IMF bailout, marking a U-turn from his election pledge to renegotiate the deal secured by…
Sri Lanka's consumer price inflation reached minus 0.7% year-on-year in October after easing to minus 0.2% in September, official data showed on November 21, as…
Shares in India's Adani Enterprises slumped 10 percent at November 21's open after US prosecutors charged billionaire industrialist founder Gautam Adani with paying hundreds of…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party is leading in one of the two recent state elections with a small margin, according to exit polls,…
Kyiv accused Russia of launching an intercontinental ballistic missile attack at Ukraine for the first time on Thursday but without a nuclear warhead in a…
Ukraine on November 20 called on its Western allies not to fuel tension inside the country, after a string of embassies in Kyiv announced they…
European powers and the United States have submitted a resolution censuring Iran for its lack of cooperation on its nuclear dossier, despite the head of…
A Kenyan-led police force trying to restore order in gang-ridden Haiti should be turned into a UN peacekeeping mission, the United States said November 20,…
Veteran Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye appeared in a military court in Kampala on November 20 accused of seeking to compromise national security, after his…
US car giant Ford on November 20 announced 4,000 more job cuts in Europe, mostly in Germany and Britain, in the latest blow to the…
The prime ministers of Sweden and Denmark said November 20 they were not ruling out "sabotage" in the severing of two Baltic Sea cables, adding…
A Canadian minister accused of faking Indigenous roots resigned November 20 in a huge embarrassment for an already weakened government seeking reconciliation with native peoples.…
