Hospitals under fire as Israeli forces deepen operations in northern Gaza

CAIRO, Oct 22 — Israeli military forces besieged hospitals and shelters for displaced people in the ...

Brazil’s Lula says head injury ‘serious,’ with update from doctors in coming days

BRASILIA, Oct 22 — Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said the head injury he suffered fr...

Harris, Trump pick up the pace two weeks to Election Day

NEW YORK, Oct 22 — Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her Republican rival, Donald ...

UN appeals to Indonesia for Rohingya boat rescue

JAKARTA, Oct Oct 22 — The United Nations refugee agency has appealed to Indonesia’s government to re...

Frustrated Latinos turn to Trump in key state of Nevada

LAS VEGAS, Oct 22 — Las Vegas market worker Maria Salinas believes Democrats have failed their tradi...

Shooting in Washington state leaves 5 dead; 15-year-old boy is in custody

OLYMPIA, Oct 21 — Washington state authorities said today that five people were killed in a shooting...

Wealthy Israelis offer rewards for release of Gaza hostages

JERUSALEM, Oct 22 — Frustrated with the dwindling prospect of reaching a ceasefire deal in the year-...

China launches live-fire exercise in Taiwan Strait

BEIJING, Oct 22 — China’s military began a live-fire exercise near Taiwan today, maintaining pressur...

McDonald’s HQ says it did not facilitate Trump visit, ‘does not endorse candidates’

HARRISBURG, Oct 22 — McDonald’s is doing its best to not be seen as favouring former US President Do...

Russian state media flatters Trump, but Kremlin cool on him and Harris

MOSCOW, Oct 22 — Russian officials from President Vladimir Putin down say it makes no odds to Moscow...

Trying to retrieve her phone, Aussie woman ends up stuck upside-down between boulders for seven hours

CANBERRA, Oct 22 — Matilda Campbell learned the hard way that there are times when it is too dangero...

In Canberra visit, King Charles gets sneezed on by suit-and-crown-wearing alpaca named after Hugh Hefner (VIDEO)

CANBERRA, Oct 21 — King Charles joked Monday about past encounters with Australia’s formidable wildl...

In daring scheme, Laos scam gangs install internet cable across border to trick Thais into thinking they're dealing with locals

BANGKOK, Oct 21 – Scam syndicates have reportedly installed internet cables from Thailand’s Mukdahan...

Two China businessman abducted in Bangkok, forced to transfer over RM1.5m to armed kidnappers before ditched 12km away from home

BANGKOK, Oct 21 – Thai police are reportedly searching for an armed gang that allegedly kidnapped tw...

Warning vs threat: Aussie man in Tokyo lands in jail for shouting ‘go to da!’ at 70-year-old Japanese man

TOKYO, Oct 21 — A Tokyo district court sentenced 32-year-old Australian Daniel Mathew Otto to two ye...

Once bursting with life, south Beirut blown to bits by Israeli bombs

BEIRUT, Oct 21 — Just a month ago, south Beirut’s bustling streets were packed with traffic, familie...

Big spenders: Harris campaign burns through US$270m in Sept, dwarfing Trump’s outlays of US$78m

WASHINGTON, Oct 21 — Kamala Harris entered the final full month of the US presidential election camp...

Seoul demands ‘immediate withdrawal’ of North Korean troops supporting Russia in Ukraine

SEOUL, Oct 21 — South Korea summoned the Russian ambassador Monday to criticise Pyongyang’s decision...

Biodiversity at a crossroads: Key discussions set to shape nature’s future at COP16 in Colombia

BOGOTA, Oct 22 — During this month’s UN Biodiversity Summit, known as COP16, in the Colombian city o...

Monkey deaths at Hong Kong zoo: Authorities say soil infection killed them, as 11th dies

HONG KONG, Oct 22 — Melioidosis, a bacterial infection, was responsible for killing at least nine mo...

‘I love salt!’ Trump dons apron to serve french fries at McDonald’s, in dig at Harris’ history working at the fast-food chain

LANCASTER (United States), Oct 21 — Kamala Harris turned 60 yesterday in the final stretch of a knif...

Israel bombs Hezbollah-linked finance group Al-Qard Al-Hassan, as Jordan accuses it of getting away with ‘brutally terrorising’ locals

BEIRUT, Oct 21 — Israel began bombing Lebanese branches of an association accused of financing the I...

‘Lifelong greenie’ King Charles III to spotlight climate crisis in Parliament reception at Australian capital Canberra

CANBERRA, Oct 21 — An Aboriginal smoking ceremony will welcome King Charles III to Australia’s capit...

At COP16, UN chief seeks ‘significant investment’ to protect Earth’s biodiversity as only RM1b collected so far

CALI (Colombia), Oct 21 — UN chief Antonio Guterres yesterday urged “significant investment” in a fu...

‘This isn’t your land, you aren’t my king’: Indigenous senator heckles King Charles III after address to lawmakers in Canberra

CANBERRA, Oct 21 — Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe shouted anti-colonial slogans at King Charles dur...

Pressured to cease fire, Israel gives US impossible conditions to keep army and air force in Lebanon to stop Hezbollah from rebuilding

WASHINGTON, Oct 21 — Israel gave the United States a document last week with its conditions for a di...

Indonesia’s Prabowo swears in ‘Red and White Cabinet’, names over 100 ministers and deputies across 48 ministries

JAKARTA, Oct 21 — Indonesia’s newly minted leader, President Prabowo Subianto, officially swore in h...

Philippine court jails 17 Abu Sayyaf militants for life over Sipadan kidnappings in 2000

MANILA, Oct 21 — Seventeen members of an Islamic State-linked militant group have been sentenced to ...

Accused by Erdogan of fomenting failed 2016 coup, Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen dies in exile at 83

ISTANBUL, Oct 21 — US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who was accused by Turkish authorities of...

‘Most dangerous season ever’: Olive harvest in Palestine crippled by conflict, attacks by illegal Israel settlers

RAMALLAH, Oct 20 — After a year of relentless war, Gaza’s olive harvest is set to suffer, while in t...