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.…
Texas authorities have offered the incoming Trump administration land on the border with Mexico to build "deportation facilities" in support of the president-elect's plan for…
Serbian authorities arrested 11 people, including a former minister, on November 21 as part of a probe into a train station accident that killed 15…
The National Court in Waigani on November 18 restricted the developer of lower Talai from evicting settlers of Section 120, Allotment 48 in National Capital…
Mining giant Rio Tinto and the government in the autonomous Papua New Guinea (PNG) region of Bougainville are set to form a roundtable to address…
Local officials on November 20 inaugurated the Metoreia Urban Health Center in Hanuabada village, National Capital District, Port Moresby. The construction of the facility began…
The Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG) on November 20 secured 3 million kina for the reconstruction of the Kuveria Prison in Central Bougainville district, Bougainville. The…
