(AFP) – Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin are set to give duelling speeches Tuesday promising two starkly differing takes on Russia’s Ukraine invasion, a...

Guterres has condemned North Korea’s weekend launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile and called on Pyongyang to cease “provocative actions”, his spokesman said Sunday. “The...

The death toll from avalanches that in recent days have hit Tajikistan, a small mountainous country in Central Asia, has risen to 19, authorities...

Vladimir Putin says he learned from his boyhood brawls in his native St. Petersburg: “If you want to win a fight, you have to...

The only newspaper of Bangladesh’s main opposition party halted printing on Monday after a government suspension order was upheld, stoking fears about media freedom...

– France has dropped Covid testing restrictions imposed on travellers from China, the French embassy in Beijing said.Since January, visitors aged 11 and over...

President Joe Biden on Thursday said he would talk to his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in the wake of the US Air Force shooting...

– Australia said Friday it will spend Aus$7.0 billion (US$4.8 billion) on venues for the 2032 Brisbane Olympics, including a new 17,000-seat arena and...

Japan’s next-generation rocket failed to launch on Friday after an apparent ignition problem, the national space agency said. The H3 rocket — the successor to...

– A New Zealand mum has recounted the heartbreak of watching her two-year-old daughter being swept away in floodwaters unleashed by Cyclone Gabrielle, whose...