Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan granted bail, leaves court
A Pakistani court ordered former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s release on bail for two weeks, his lawyer said on Friday, after his arrest in a land fraud case ignited ...
Filipino priest on mission in Europe to halt fossil fuel financing
A Filipino priest is touring top European banks to demand they curtail ties with companies behind new fossil fuel projects in a region of his home country that is rich ...
World’s largest refugee camp threatened by Bangladesh cyclone
Tropical cyclone Mocha intensified to become “very dangerous” on Friday, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said, warning of violent winds, floods and possible landslides in Bangladesh that could hit the ...
Top Pakistan court rules Imran Khan’s arrest illegal, streets are quiet
Pakistan’s Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s arrest was unlawful, two days after his detention on graft allegations triggered deadly violence, escalating his ...
Pakistan court indicts ex-PM Khan after arrest sparks deadly unrest
A Pakistani court on Wednesday indicted former prime minister Imran Khan on charges ofselling state gifts during his four years in power, a day after his arrest in an unrelated ...
Supporters of Pakistan ex-PM Khan plan march to capital to protest arrest
Supporters of Imran Khan were planning to march to Islamabad on Wednesday where the former Pakistan prime minister is in custody in a corruption case, raising fears of more clashes ...
Ousted Pakistan PM Khan arrested, prompting call for ‘shut down’ protests
Pakistan’s anti-corruption agency arrested former Prime Minister Imran Khan at Islamabad High Court on Tuesday, in a dramatic move that threatens fresh turmoil in the nuclear-armed country as his ...
China and U.S. see need to stabilise relations
China’s Foreign Minister Qin Gang said on Monday it is imperative to stabilise Sino-U.S. relations after a series of “erroneous words and deeds” threw ties back into a ...
Japan’s PM tells South Koreans his ‘heart hurts’ over pain caused by occupation
Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told South Koreans on Sunday his “heart hurts” when he thinks of suffering and pain during Japanese colonial rule, in a nod to historical ...
Saudi Arabia, Iran to reopen embassies ‘within days’
Saudi Arabia and Iran will reopen embassies in each other’s capitals “within days,” Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said on Friday in a sign of warming relations after the ...
U.S. confiscates Iran oil cargo on tanker amid Tehran tensions -sources
The U.S. confiscated Iranian oil on a tanker at sea in recent days in a sanctions enforcement operation, three sources said, and days later Iran seized another oil-laden tanker ...
South Korea, US to share nuclear planning to deter North Korean threat
The U.S. on Wednesday pledged to give South Korea more insight into its nuclear planning over any conflict with North Korea amid anxiety over Pyongyang’s growing arsenal of ...
UK warns China secrecy over military expansion risks ‘tragic miscalculation’
British foreign minister James Cleverly urged China to be more open about what he called the biggest military build-up in peacetime history and said secrecy around its plans could lead ...
British American Tobacco Plc to pay more than $635 mln in North Korea sanctions case
British American Tobacco Plc has agreed to pay more than $635 million to U.S. authorities after a subsidiary pleaded guilty to charges that it conspired to violate U.S. sanctions ...
Kabul airport attack ‘mastermind’ killed by Taliban
The Taliban have killed an Islamic State militant who was the “mastermind” behind a suicide attack at Kabul’s international airport in 2021 that killed 13 U.S. troops and scores of ...
Japan’s ispace assumes failure in bid to make first commercial moon landing
Japanese startup ispace 9348.T assumed failure in its attempt to make the first private moon landing on Tuesday as engineers struggled to regain contact with the company’s Hakuto-R Mission 1 (...
Japan prepares to shoot down North Korea satellite if it falls on Japan
Japan’s Defence Minister Yasukazu Hamada on Saturday ordered the country’s military to prepare to shoot down a North Korean spy satellite should it fall within Japan’s territory.
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Biden, France’s Macron reaffirm maintaining peace across Taiwan Strait- White House
U.S. President Joe Biden spoke by phone on Thursday with French President Emmanuel Macron and discussed Macron’s state visit to China, the White House said, a week after ...
India set to surpass China’s population by 2.9 million in a couple of months
India is on its way to becoming the world’s most populous country, overtaking China with almost 3 million more people in the middle of this year, data released on Wednesday ...
US warship sails through Taiwan Strait following China war games
The US warship USS Milius sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Sunday, in what the US Navy described on Monday as a “routine” transit, just days after China ended its ...
Japan approves $13.5 bln Osaka resort, country’s first casino
Japan on Friday approved a plan to build the country’s first casino in the western city of Osaka, paving the way for a 1.8 trillion yen ($13.5 billion) resort set to ...
U.S., Vietnam say they hope to boost ties as Blinken visits Hanoi (Updated)
Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday expressed a desire to deepen and upgrade their ties as Washington seeks to solidify ...
Japan PM Kishida evacuated unhurt after explosion at speech (Updated)
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was evacuated unhurt after a suspect threw what appeared to be a smoke bomb at an outdoor speech in western Japan on Saturday, domestic media ...
N.Korea says it tested new solid-fuel ICBM, warns of ‘extreme’ horror
North Korea said on Friday it had tested a new solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the Hwasong-18, to “radically promote” its nuclear counterattack capability, state media said.
Leader Kim Jong ...