The surprise appointment of veteran civil servant Sanjay Malhotra to lead India's central bank and the departure of several senior officials seen as relatively hawkish…
Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte expressed doubts on December 11 on getting enough support among legislators to fight impeachment complaints filed against her, saying the…
Vietnam has jailed five party members for feeding information to Duong Van Thai, a blogger who is believed to have been abducted in Thailand last…
Vietnamese tech company CMC plans to invest $500 million in data centers and other infrastructure in its home country, Japan and elsewhere in the five…
ATR announced the addition of three ATR 72-600 aircraft to the fleet of Cambodia Angkor Air (which will change its name to Air Cambodia as…
Austria's parliament on December 11 approved a request from the public prosecutor's office to lift the immunity of Herbert Kickl, the leader of the far-right…
The wife of Chhoeung Chheng, an environmental journalist killed in Cambodia, says she had warned him against investigating illegal logging at night. Chhoeung had been…
South Korean police said December 11 that security guards were blocking a raid on President Yoon Suk Yeol's offices to investigate his brief imposition of…
Ethiopia has lifted a ban on three rights organisations it had previously suspended for political bias, the groups said on December 11. The government ordered…
China on December 11 blamed "external" forces and "separatists" for stoking instability in the Taiwan Strait, without confirming it is carrying out military drills around…
A powerful blast rocked a residential high-rise building in an affluent district of the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen on December 11, killing one person…
Syria's new prime minister said the Islamist-led alliance that ousted president Bashar al-Assad will guarantee minority rights, in an interview published December 11, also calling…
Chinese authorities are moving to ban the sale and use of “cigarette cards” by minors, some who have gone to great lengths to acquire used…
Somalia and Ethiopia have reached a deal to end a nearly year-old bitter dispute following hours of Turkish-brokered talks in Ankara, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan…
The UN General Assembly on December 11 overwhelmingly adopted a resolution calling for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in Gaza, a symbolic gesture rejected by…
Russia on December 11 vowed retribution against Ukraine, accusing Kyiv of firing Western-supplied missiles on a military airfield in its southern Rostov region. President Vladimir…
Amnesty International on December 11 urged Mozambique to "end its bloody crackdown on protesters", saying 110 have been killed in demonstrations sparked by disputed presidential…
A Paris appeals court on December 11 ruled investigators were right to drop a case over the French army's alleged failure to intervene in a…
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will undergo another operation Thursday to "minimize the risk of future bleeding" in an area under his skull…
FBI Director Christopher Wray announced on December 11 that he will resign in January before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. "After weeks of careful thought,…
Late last month, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin visited the island nation of Fiji, a first for a US secretary of defense. Though overdue, the discussions…
The collapse of France’s government has thrown New Caledonia into fresh uncertainty as it tries to recover from its worst civil unrest in decades. Hopes…
Violence against children in Fiji is estimated to have cost the country F$460 million, or more than 4% of Fiji’s GDP a year, says new…
Torba, Penama, Malampa and Tafea provinces will now have access to patrol boats and other essential equipment to support the work of the Vanuatu Police…
The constitutional hearing regarding the case challenging the President of the Republic of Vanuatu over allegations of a conflict of interest in signing the dissolution…
