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A large Chinese military drone has conducted regular flights over the South China Sea in recent months while transmitting false transponder signals that made it appear to be other aircraft, including a sanctioned Belarus...

Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Riaz Hamidullah, during his recent trip to Meghalaya, met members of India's celebrated Shillong Chamber Choir and announced a plan for a cross-border performance.

The widow of former Malaysia Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin has denied involvement in any attempt to destabilise the government, calling the allegation “false and preposterous”.

Pakistan and Afghanistan traded attacks in a dramatic escalation of tensions between the countries that Pakistan’s defense minister said Friday means they are now in “open war.”

Consumer prices in Brazil rose more than expected in the month to mid-February, official data showed on Friday, but that should not prevent the central bank from kicking off a monetary easing cycle next month.

Washington has told non-emergency staff and family members that they can leave Israel, the US embassy in Jerusalem said on Friday.

With spring break on the horizon, travelers may be reassessing their plans to vacation in Mexico after cartel-related violence broke out last weekend in parts of the country.

Four prisoners who broke out of the Puerto Vallarta State Penitentiary during last Sunday’s military operation against Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) leader “El Mencho” have been captured, the Security Ministry re...

The United States and Iran made progress in talks over Tehran's nuclear program on Thursday, mediator Oman said, but hours of negotiation ended with no sign of a breakthrough that could avert potential U.S. strikes amid...

Congolese authorities and a civil society group have said that mass graves were found in a part of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) where the M23 rebel group has recently withdrawn from, as fighting in the...

Four people have been found guilty and given jail terms by a Greek court after a wiretapping scandal shook the country in 2022.

On February 20, six months after its announcement to do so, Poland withdrew from the Ottawa Treaty which bans anti-personnel mines.

With the March 5 House of Representatives (HoR) elections drawing near, 359 polling stations in Karnali Province have been classified as "highly sensitive" from a security standpoint, authorities said on Wednesday.

About 25,000 children in Kunar province are still living in makeshift tents six months after a devastating earthquake struck the region, international aid group Save the Children said on Thursday.

OpenAI on Wednesday (Feb 25) said it banned the ChatGPT account of an individual linked to Chinese law enforcement, who had tried to use the chatbot to plan an influence operation against Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Ta...

A Hong Kong court sentenced the father of a U.S.-based activist to eight months in prison Thursday for attempting to withdraw some funds from his daughter’s insurance policy, in the first case against a family member of...

Cuba’s deputy foreign minister said Thursday that the island’s government is communicating with U.S. officials following the fatal shooting of a U.S. boat in Cuban waters.

The death toll from the heavy rains in Brazil's southeastern state of Minas Gerais has risen to 46, according to figures released by the state fire department on Wednesday.

The Ghanaian navy and air force rescued 71 fishermen whose boats were attacked off the coast of Ghana by unidentified gunmen, a local official said Thursday.

Cuba has accused 10 people aboard a US-registered speedboat it intercepted off its coast on Wednesday of planning "an infiltration with terrorist aims".