A climate change protest off the coast of Australia’s New South Wales State forced an inbound ship to turn back from the country’s largest terminal…
Australia has ditched plans to fine social media companies if they fail to stem the spread of misinformation, the country's communications minister said November 24.…
The United States and Fiji have started talks aimed at strengthening military ties between Washington and the Pacific island nation, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin…
Parliamentarians in Vanuatu are scrambling to scrape together funds to start campaigning for a snap-election which was triggered by the President Nikenike Vurobaravu dissolving parliament…
A Japanese mayor said it is "extremely regrettable" that South Korea pulled out of a memorial ceremony November 24 to honour wartime forced labour victims,…
Local authorities in China are stepping up safety management and police patrols following several high-profile mass killings, as the central government calls for enhanced public…
The United States said November 22 that it is barring imports from dozens more China-based companies -- ranging from businesses in the metals to food…
Japan's government is discussing a new target for greenhouse gas emissions that would aim for a 60% reduction from fiscal 2013 levels by fiscal 2035,…
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos' security detail has been put on alert over what his office is calling an "active threat" against his life by Vice…
The Laos government said November 23 it was "profoundly saddened" by the deaths of foreign tourists in Vang Vieng, with the toll from a suspected…
Raging orange flames and thick black smoke billowed into the sky November 24 as fire ripped through hundreds of houses in a closely built slum…
Survivors and sniffing dogs joined hundreds of people at Cambodia's Angkor Wat on November 24 for a march against landmines after the US decision to…
A Singaporean man was arrested on November 22 for making a false bomb threat at Bangkok's Don Mueng International Airport. The man, identified as Ho,…
Three days of bitter sectarian gunfights in northwestern Pakistan have killed at least 82 people and wounded 156 more, a local official said November 24.…
A Bangladeshi mystic sect promoting religious tolerance has cancelled their popular music festival after Islamist threats, the latest victim of turbulent religious relations since a…
Sri Lanka's new leftist government has agreed to press ahead with a controversial IMF bailout programme that involves tough austerity and economic reforms, the international…
India's government plans to clamp down on polluting farm fires by measuring the areas burnt instead of live blazes, after reports that farmers were burning…
The International Criminal Court on November 21 issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as…
Tens of thousands demonstrated in major French cities November 23 against violence targeting women, as campaigners push for the country to learn from a mass…
Uruguayans go to the polls November 24, with the leftist alliance of celebrated ex-president Jose "Pepe" Mujica hoping to reclaim the country's top job five…
Two opposition mayors in eastern Turkey have been removed from office after being convicted of "terrorism" for belonging to a banned Kurdish militant group, the…
One person died and four others were injured after a hand grenade exploded at a party in the southern Croatian town of Knin, police said…
New rules allowing wealthy polluting countries to buy carbon-cutting "offsets" from developing nations were agreed at UN climate talks November 23, a move already raising…
Romanians were voting November 24 in the first round of a presidential election amid a surge in inflation and fears over the war in neighbouring…
Tanzania's main opposition leader Freeman Mbowe has been released on bail, his party said November 23, after he was detained just days before local polls.…
