External News

Relations have been strained since Japan's new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi suggested last month that her country could intervene militarily in any Chinese attack on Taiwan.

UN cuts its Lebanon peacekeeping mission by 25% amid fierce Israeli strikes, signaling a potential escalation in the conflict with Hezbollah.

The number of people killed by floods and landslides on Indonesia’s Sumatra island rose to 708 on Tuesday, the country’s disaster agency said, with 504 people missing.

A 3.3 magnitude earthquake hit Bahrain early Monday, according to the National Centre of Meteorology (NCM).

Suspected militants ambushed a vehicle carrying a government administrator in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing him, two of his guards and a passerby, officials said.

In West Africa’s latest military takeover, soldiers in Guinea-Bissau followed up a disputed presidential election by seizing power last week in what some critics allege was a staged coup to avoid having the incumbent los...

Nigeria’s defense minister, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, has resigned, the president’s office said on Monday.

Afghanistan's Taliban administration said it assured neighbouring Tajikistan on Tuesday it was ready to tighten border security and conduct joint investigations, after attacks which Dushanbe said were launched from Afgha...

Visiting Bolivia became a little easier for certain travelers on Monday, when the South American nation’s first conservative government in nearly 20 years eliminated visa requirements for citizens from the United States...

Honduran presidential candidates Nasry Asfura and Salvador Nasralla were practically tied in the latest vote count on Monday, with both holding just under 40% of the vote in a tight race beset by problems with the result...

Cuba on Monday confirmed the deaths of 33 people from mosquito-borne illnesses in recent months in an epidemic that has hit at least one-third of the population, according to official reports.

Mexican authorities have killed one of the country’s top fentanyl traffickers, accused of importing tens of thousands of kilos of the drug into the US and wanted by the US authorities on narco-terrorism charges.

Spain has called in its military to help contain an outbreak of African swine fever near Barcelona, a move aimed at protecting the country’s multi-billion-euro pork export industry.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed without evidence that Russian forces have taken control of Pokrovsk and Vovchansk, both Ukrainian cities where intense fighting has been happening for weeks in the eastern par...

Syria’s new security forces have reached a significant milestone in their operations against extremists, now working openly with the US Central Command against ISIS. Although this is not their first cooperation with the...

Four people have been arrested in South Korea for allegedly hacking more than 120,000 video cameras in homes and businesses and using the footage to make sexually exploitative materials for an overseas website.

Across South and South East Asia, at least 1,100 people have been killed in flooding and landslides due to extreme wet weather this past week. The death toll is expected to rise given that in recently-hit areas like Indo...

Guinea-Bissau's military rulers have banned protests and strikes as they tighten control ahead of a high-level visit by West Africa's ECOWAS bloc that is seeking to restore constitutional order following last week's coup...

With votes from about 43% of polling places counted early Monday, the National Party presidential candidate had 40.54% support in an election marked by distrust and polarization.

President José Jerí of Peru said his government on Friday would declare a state of emergency along the country’s southern border and deploy more armed forces to the area as a large number of Venezuelan migrants venture n...