A high-ranking Chinese diplomat is visiting Seoul this week for the first time in five years as the two countries seek to improve ties amid a spat over a US anti-missile system in South Korea, Reuters reported. The Chinese government's top diplomat, State Councilor Wang Yi, is set to arrive on Wednesday for a two-day...
A powerful typhoon was blowing across the Philippines on Tuesday after slamming ashore overnight in an eastern province, damaging houses and an airport and knocking out power after tens of thousands of people fled for safer ground.
New Zealand moved to ban large foreign political donations and misleading social media advertisements on Tuesday amid concerns about “offshore interference in next year's general election.” The move, which bars donations over NZ$50 (US$33), was aimed at protecting New Zealand's democracy from a growing international threat, according to Justice Minister Andrew Little. “We need to...
Elon Musk is going on trial on Tuesday for his troublesome tweets in a defamation case pitting the billionaire against a British diver he allegedly branded a paedophile.
Australian police said on Tuesday they had found a second person who had been missing in the country's remote outback for weeks, saying he survived soaring temperatures by drinking water meant for livestock.
The leading credit rating agency said Islamabad's financial situation is on a path of improvement and expressed hope that the help from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mitigates the risks to its economy. The New York-based agency changed Pakistan's credit ratings outlook from ‘negative' to ‘stable' on Monday, expecting that the “balance of payments dynamics...
Seventy is normally considered a ripe old age at which people should be enjoying retirement. The NATO alliance, which meets to celebrate its anniversary in London, should have been pensioned off long ago. The French president, who told the Economist in early November that NATO was “brain dead”, seems determined to jolt the alliance and...
