Nusantara, which is 2,000 kilometres (1,200 miles) from Jakarta, is set to become the new political centre of the world's fourth-largest country. It is a legacy project of President Joko Widodo but environmentalists have warned it could accelerate...

Anthony CHERGOSKY, Political science Professor at the University of Wisconsin

The Australian Olympic Committee said the relocation of Yousofi and dozens of others was the culmination of a year's work trying to help Afghans with ties to the Olympic movement. Asian Games taekwondo medallist Ahmad Abasy was also part of the 31 ...

Noeleen Heyzer's visit to the crisis-wracked country, which began on Tuesday, "will focus on addressing the deteriorating situation and immediate concerns as well as other priority areas of her mandate," the UN has said. Heyzer did not respond to A...

Brazil's presidential election campaign officially began Tuesday with former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva leading all polls against incumbent Jair Bolsonaro amid growing concern of political violence and threats to democracy.

Beijing has been accused of detaining over a million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, as well as carrying out forced sterilisation of women and coerced labour. The United States and lawmakers in other western countries have gone as ...

Haruyuki Takahashi allegedly received $380,000 from high-street business suit retailer Aoki Holdings, an official partner of last year's pandemic-delayed 2020 Games. The 78-year-old was arrested along with Aoki chairman Hironori Aoki, 83, and two o...

Gao was once a French army base operating 24/7, but now an eerie quiet has settled in. With the departure of the very last logistical convey of 150 vehicles, the only ones left in the camp are the elite units, who will depart in the utmost secrec...

Now, fears are growing that the ruthless jihadists wreaking havoc in the Sahel are heading towards coastal West Africa. Following multiple incursions including deadly attacks in the northern regions of Benin, Ivory Coast and Togo, governments in th...

J-League leaders Yokohama take on the Spanish legend's Kobe as Asia's top club competition resumes with the East region playing its entire knockout round in the Japanese city of Saitama. Kobe are aiming to win the continental title for the first ti...

Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, Donald Trump’s fiercest Republican adversary in Congress, was defeated in a GOP primary Tuesday, falling to a rival backed by the former president in a contest that reinforced his grip on the party’s base.

Revelations about Scott Morrison's covert actions -- labelled by his successor as the creation of a "shadow government" -- have sparked a political firestorm in Australia this week. During a lengthy and at-times fiery press conference Wednesday, Mo...

Since taking office in May, Yoon has seen his approval ratings plunge to a low of 24 percent, and he said at a press briefing to mark 100 days in office that he would reflect on what had gone wrong. But it is "more important to humbly examine the p...