Tonga's Office of the Lord Speaker has received notification of a plan to move a motion of no confidence in Prime Minister Hu'akavameiliku Siaosi Sovaleni.…
A UN Women report says the prevalence of reported physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence - taking place in the previous 12 months - is…
New Caledonia's Union Calédonienne, one of the main and oldest components of the pro-independence movement, has at the weekend elected Emmanuel Tjibaou as its new…
The United States is drawing up contingency plans for military deployments in Japan and the Philippines in case of an emergency over Taiwan, Japan's Kyodo…
Taiwan said November 25 it had detected a Chinese balloon over waters northwest of the island, the first reported since April, as Beijing maintains pressure…
Beijing is ramping up scrutiny of "common" disputes such as those involving marriages and property, the justice ministry said, as the public reels from a…
The Chinese government has started a special program to crack down various unfair and non-compliant practices on the internet to safeguard the interests of netizens…
The Philippines justice department on November 25 labelled Vice President Sara Duterte the "mastermind" of a plot to assassinate the country's president, giving her five…
Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong is set to take charge of the ruling People’s Action Party, consolidating his leadership ahead of a general election due…
Thirty nine foreigners have fled an online scam centre in Myanmar across the border to Thailand, where officials are working to identify potential trafficking victims,…
A Buddhist monastery in Thailand is under investigation after authorities discovered more than 40 bodies on site which were allegedly used for meditation practices, police…
Indian Muslim protesters clashed with police November 24 with at least two people killed in riots sparked by a survey investigating if a 17th-century mosque…
Pakistani officials announced a seven-day truce November 24 after days of bitter sectarian gunfights in the country's northwest Kurram district that have killed at least…
A Bangladeshi government-appointed committee examining power generation contracts, including one with India's Adani Power, has urged the interim government to hire a global legal firm…
A US agency that agreed to lend more than $500 million to an Adani Group-backed port development in Sri Lanka said it’s still conducting due…
A pro-Russia far-right candidate took a surprise lead November 25 in Romania's presidential election, knocking the EU-leaning premier out of the race that will be…
The UN Secretary-General on November 25 slammed the "renewed threat" of anti-personnel landmines, days after the United States said it would supply the weapons to…
Olaf Scholz will on November 25 be officially named to lead his centre-left Social Democrats into Germany's snap elections in February, but the embattled chancellor…
Left-wing politician Yamandu Orsi was elected president of Uruguay, official results showed on November 24, in a rebuke by voters of five years of conservative…
While fighting between criminal groups in Haiti decreased during 2024, attacks on civilians have risen, including an expanded use of "horrific sexual abuse," according to…
Eight migrants, six of them minors, died November 25 after a boat sank in the Aegean Sea, the Greek coastguard said. The coastguard said nearly…
A DHL cargo plane crashed early November 25 near the airport in Lithuania's capital, killing one person, authorities said as they searched for clues to…
A labourer working on repairs to a school near Valencia damaged in the deadly floods that ravaged eastern Spain last month was killed when a…
Russia's largest plane builder announced a shake-up in its management on November 25 as the country's sanctions-hit industry struggles to meet the Kremlin's "unprecedentedly" short…
French prosectors said on November 25 they were seeking the maximum 20-year jail term for the man charged with enlisting dozens of strangers to rape…