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Iranian authorities have lifted a ban on Meta’s META.O instant messaging platform WhatsApp and Google Play GOOGL.O as a first step to scale back internet restrictions, Iranian ...

South Korea’s main opposition party threatened on Monday to impeach acting president Han Duck-soo if he failed to approve legislation to launch a special counsel investigation into President Yoon ...

Japan’s competition watchdog is expected to find Google GOOGL.O guilty of violating the country’s antitrust law, Nikkei Asia reported on Sunday, citing sources. The Japan Fair Trade ...

Top diplomats from the Biden administration are in Damascus today Friday to meet new Syrian authorities led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a State Department spokesperson said, the first in-person ...

Banlue Choosin has been monitoring the seas around Thailand’s southern Phang Nga province for signs of abnormality for nearly two decades. The 59-year-old is a former fisherman, and his ...

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations has evolved significantly since its founding in 1967. Now encompassing 10 member states, ASEAN represents a diverse cultural, political, and economic consortium that faces new challenges ...

The U.S Department of Defense on Wednesday announced the repatriation of two Guantanamo Bay detainees to Malaysia, where the government said it was planning a reintegration programme for the ...

Zakir Hussain, whose “dancing fingers” made him one of the greatest players of the tabla or Indian drums and who became a major force in contemporary world music, has died. ...

South Korea’s acting president, Han Duck-soo, moved on Sunday to reassure the country’s allies and calm financial markets a day after President Yoon Suk Yeol was impeached and ...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Turkish foreign minister Hakan Fidan discussed on Friday the need for continued efforts to counter any resurgence of Islamic State in Syria ...

Rebel leader Ahmad al-Sharaa’s Islamist group is stamping its authority on Syria’s state with the same lightning speed that it seized the country, deploying police, installing an interim ...

Refugees from Syria’s long civil war were making their way home on Wednesday, as a new interim prime minister said he had been appointed with the backing of the ...

South Korean police raided the office of President Yoon Suk Yeol, a presidential security official said on Wednesday, in a widening investigation into the embattled leader’s failed attempt to ...

Israel denied on Tuesday that its forces had penetrated into Syrian territory beyond the buffer zone with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, after Syrian sources said the incursion had extended to ...

Israel pounded Syrian army bases on Tuesday in strikes it says aim to keep weapons from falling into hostile hands, but denied its forces had advanced into Syria beyond a ...

The lightning overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad left Syrians, countries in the region and world powers nervous on Tuesday about what comes next as the rebel alliance took its first ...

By Hyunjoo Jin and Josh Smith South Korea’s leadership crisis deepened on Sunday as prosecutors named President Yoon Suk Yeol as a subject of a criminal investigation over last ...

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol survived an impeachment motion in the opposition-led parliament on Saturday that was prompted by his short-lived attempt to impose martial law this week, after ...

South Korea’s ruling party leader on Friday said President Yoon Suk Yeol needs to be removed from power for trying to impose martial law, as the government denied reports ...

South Korean opposition lawmakers said on Thursday they would vote this weekend to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol for his botched attempt to impose martial law, and police said they ...

South Korean lawmakers on Wednesday proposed impeaching President Yoon Suk Yeol for his sudden decision to declare martial law, which he rescinded after a chaotic standoff between parliament and the ...

South Koreans went to offices, businesses and schools as usual on Wednesday with scarcely any visible signs in the capital Seoul that six hours of surprise martial law and high ...

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said on Wednesday he would lift a martial law declaration he had imposed just hours before, backing down in a standoff with parliament which ...

Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) said on Sunday it expects to resume European routes soon and is eyeing several UK destinations after the EU aviation regulator lifted its bar on the ...