JERUSALEM - The camp of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was ahead of his rival's opposition bloc but still short of a majority on Wednesday after 50 percent of votes were counted in Israel's pivotal general election.

The Bank of ⁠Thailand (BoT) kept its key ​interest rate ‌unchanged for a fourth straight meeting on Wednesday, as widely expected.

The man accused of posting a fake transaction slip on the “Godd Dam” Facebook page showing a purported 7-million-baht transfer to then-deputy prime minister Anutin Charnvirakul was arrested on Wednesday.

Around 200 passengers who paid to live on a cruise ship while travelling the world were abruptly left in a Cambodian port after the company ran out of money, an official said on Wednesday.

A foreign man, whose nationality has yet been identified, reportedly fell to his death from a high-rise condominium on Sukhumvit Road in Pattaya early on Wednesday morning.

MANILA — ⁠The ⁠Association of Southeast Asian Nations' (Asean) ​special envoy on Myanmar will lead a ​humanitarian mission to the

CAPE TOWN — A little boy balanced a large bottle of water on his shoulder as he returned from a communal tap near land acquired by a major data centre developer in South Africa's water-scarce city of Cape Town.

NEW DELHI — India has vowed "swift action" after a cheetah was shot dead, the first such killing since the country began reintroducing the animals in 2022, the government said Wednesday.

Police are looking for four Myanmar workers, two married couples, who allegedly beat and stabbed two Chinese employers at a construction workers’ camp in Bangkok’s Lat Krabang district, killing one and seriously injuring the other, before...

HONG KONG — A Gen Z tech influencer from central China has brought science fiction to life by handcrafting a manned hoverboard and teaching himself flight control and mechanical engineering.