The United Nations warned on December 3 that already unprecedented levels of forced displacement are set to worsen in 2025 as conflicts and disasters push…
The world's developing countries paid a record $1.4 trillion to service their debts last year, as high lending rates pushed interest costs to a two-decade…
Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah party have agreed to create a committee to jointly administer post-war Gaza, negotiators from both…
France's government on December 4 faces no confidence votes that could spell the end of the short-lived administration of Prime Minister Michel Barnier, plunging the…
A Syria war monitor said fighters were closing in on the central city of Hama on December 3, with people fleeing as the army said…
US President-elect Donald Trump's attorneys sought to dismiss his historic criminal fraud conviction in a new filing released on December 3 -- arguing President Joe…
A nose job by Peruvian President Dina Boluarte sparked intense controversy on December 3, with some lawmakers calling for her to be removed from office…
Namibia's ruling SWAPO party was declared winner on December 3 of last week's disputed elections, ushering in the southern African country's first woman president after…
Some 135 people were killed in a crush at a soccer stadium in southeast Guinea on December 1, a local group of human rights organisations…
A court in southeastern Bangladesh on December 3 rescheduled a bail hearing for a jailed prominent Hindu leader who led large rallies in the Muslim-majority…
Senior employees at several institutions offering nursing and midwifery courses in Afghanistan on December 3 said women would be barred from classes, following an edict…
President Xi Jinping on December 3 told Nepali Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli that China will offer more support to develop the country's infrastructure,…
India and China will consider “other aspects” of their bilateral ties in a calibrated manner now that they have completed pulling back their troops from…
The Philippines is set to slash its budget for an early-warning system to detect landslides, despite being highly vulnerable to natural disasters amid climate change.…
A multi-billion-dollar fraud scandal involving one of Vietnam's most prominent tycoons exposed systemic weaknesses in the country's banking sector, say analysts who warn other such…
A second major Myanmar ethnic rebel group has said it is ready for China-mediated talks with the junta to end more than a year of…
Thailand’s Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra on December 3 said her government is negotiating with neighboring Myanmar for the return of four fishermen captured by Myanmar’s…
South Korea’s main opposition party on December 4 urged President Yoon Suk Yeol to resign immediately or face impeachment, hours after Yoon ended short-lived martial…
The US arrested a man in Ontario, California, for allegedly orchestrating illegal shipments of firearms, ammunition and military equipment to North Korea with the intent…
China announced on December 3 it is banning exports to the US of gallium, germanium, antimony and other key high-tech materials with potential military applications,…
Corruption cases against village and town officials in China have soared in 2024, as a graft crackdown deepens in the world’s second-largest economy. The number…
The top United Nations court took up the largest case in its history on December 2, hearing the plight of several small island nations helpless…
New Caledonia's High Commission has announced its curfew has been lifted. It was first brought in after riots broke out in May and has been…
Voters in Vanuatu will go to the polls for a snap election on 14 January next year. This comes after President Nikenike Vurobaravu dissolved parliament…
New Zealand said on December 2 that it had suspended all poultry exports after detecting a highly pathogenic variant of avian influenza at a poultry…
