The central Pacific nation of 120,000 people said it had taken "the sovereign decision" to withdraw from the 51-year-old, Fiji-based Pacific Islands Forum "with immediate effect". In a July 9 letter obtained by AFP, Kiribati President Taneti Maamau...

Police investigating Tetsuya Yamagami on suspicion of murder have said he targeted Abe because he believed he was linked to a particular group, without naming the organisation. Local media described the group as religious and said Yamagami resented...

Protesters discovered 17.85 million rupees (about $50,000) in crisp new banknotes but turned it over to police following Saturday's storming of the Presidential palace. "The cash was taken over by the police and will be produced in court today," a ...

The hosts were 499 for eight at the interval in Galle after opening batsman Pathum Nissanka was ruled out with Covid-19, becoming their sixth Sri Lanka player to get the virus during the past two weeks. Sri Lanka resumed their first innings on 431-...

The annual work on the two pipelines was scheduled long in advance. The fear is however that -- with relations between Russia and the West at their lowest in years because of the invasion of Ukraine -- Gazprom might take the opportunity to simply sh...

The salt lake and its marshes -- the largest of its kind in Europe and a UNESCO world heritage site -- could soon run completely dry, and locals are worried. The lake, only an hour from Vienna, last dried up in the 1860s yet was naturally replenish...

Hit hard by the country's economic slowdown, four banks in Henan province have since mid-April frozen all cash withdrawals, leaving thousands of small savers without funds and sparking sporadic demonstrations. In one of the largest such rallies yet...

She is among the eight young Ukrainians who recently arrived in central Taichung city to study on full scholarships, drawn by Taiwan's democracy and a sense of kinship born of living under the constant threat of invasion from a much bigger, increasi...

The central Pacific nation of 120,000 people said it had taken "the sovereign decision" to withdraw from the 51-year-old, Fiji-based Pacific Islands Forum "with immediate effect". In a July 9 letter obtained by AFP, Kiribati President Taneti Maamau...

The arrival of mango season in Pakistan is eagerly anticipated, with around two dozen varieties arriving through the hot, humid summers. This year, however, temperatures rose sharply in March -- months earlier than usual -- followed by heatwaves t...

The Serb has long been seeking the missing ingredient to make him an equal of Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal in the hearts of tennis fans. His four-set victory over unseeded Nick Kyrgios nudges him ahead of Federer into second place in the all-time...

Share prices of six gaming conglomerates -- Sands China, Galaxy Entertainment, SJM Holdings, Melco International, MGM China and Wynn Macau -- dropped by between six to nearly nine percent on Monday morning trade. It is the first casino lockdown in ...

The news came after a forecast-busting US jobs report last week indicated the world's top economy was coping so far with the Federal Reserve interest rate hikes, giving it room for more as it battles soaring inflation. Traders are also keeping tabs...

Japan's ruling coalition meanwhile declared victory in a sombre election held Sunday, just two days after Abe was gunned down on the campaign trail. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made a previously unscheduled trip to Japan while on an Asia t...

As clients line up by his desk, which is perched at an angle, 61-year-old Condori fills out a tax form here, a divorce application there, on his Brother Deluxe 1350 vintage typewriter in the Bolivian capital. For a fee of up to seven bolivianos (ab...