WhatsApp, the instant messaging service owned by Meta Platforms Inc, appears to be experiencing a widespread outage, with thousands of users reporting issues.

Myanmar's military has defended air strikes on a concert organised by an ethnic minority force as a justified response to attacks in the area, after opponents accused the junta of targeting civilians and conducting war crimes.

At least nine people have died after a cyclone slammed into Bangladesh, forcing the evacuation of around a million people from their homes, officials said Tuesday.

There is still flooding in 27 provinces, mainly in the Central Plains and the Northeast, and it is receding in most of these provinces, according to the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation.

KALASIN: A 45-year-old physical education teacher at a school in Kuchinarai district accused of raping a 13-year-student surrendered to police on Tuesday.

Vietnam’s central bank unexpectedly raised interest rates by another 1 percentage point for a second straight month to help ease pressure on a currency that has slumped to a record low.

WASHINGTON: Plastic recycling rates are declining even as production shoots up, according to a Greenpeace USA report that blasts industry claims of creating an efficient, circular economy as "fiction."

PARIS: After nearly a century of geopolitical tension over access to oil, experts worry that the global transition to clean energy is creating new dependencies on the critical minerals needed for solar panels, wind turbines and electric vehicle batte...

North Korea has finished preparations for a nuclear test, South Korea’s president told parliament, stoking concerns that Pyongyang’s first blast of an atomic device in five years could be imminent.

JAKARTA: Indonesian police detained on Tuesday a woman carrying a gun outside the presidential palace in Jakarta, a palace official said.