Fourteen people have been killed in Turkey and Greece after a strong earthquake struck the Aegean Sea on Friday, bringing buildings crashing down and setting off tidal waves which slammed into coastal areas and islands.

Malaysia Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has said that the Malaysian government is considering issuing temporary work permits to undocumented foreign workers in the country in a bid to overcome the shortage of foreign workers in the oil palm and rubber industries.

A strong earthquake of magnitude of up 7.0 struck the Aegean Sea on Friday and was felt in both Turkey and Greece, local and international observatories said.

With the presidential election looming - and Democrat Joe Biden ahead in the polls and promising to prioritise the role of science in policymaking - some researchers hope for a return to the days when the United States is viewed as the best place on earth to do their jobs.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has wound up a visit to Asia in Vietnam after a tour marked by his repeated calls for help for the United States in confronting security threats posed by China.

France’s interior minister has said more militant attacks on its soil are likely and the country is engaged in a war against Islamist ideology following the second deadly knife attack in its cities in two weeks.

Democrat Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump in the polls with few days to go before the US election.

China is the “gravest threat” to the future of religious freedom, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said yesterday, in his latest verbal assault on Beijing during a whirlwind Asian tour.

Global temperatures boosted by climate change will still be higher than usual despite the cooling effect of a “moderate to strong” La Nina weather phenomenon, the UN said yesterday.

Azerbaijan yesterday launched its heaviest missile strikes in a month of fighting on the largest city in its Armenian-populated breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, separatist officials said.

Former South Korean president Lee Myung-bak was ordered back to prison yesterday as the country’s Supreme Court upheld a 17-year jail term for bribery and embezzlement offences.

Vietnam hunted for survivors yesterday after landslides triggered by Typhoon Molave, one of its strongest storms in decades, lashed a central region already reeling from weeks of heavy rains that have killed at least 160 people.

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday dealt setbacks to Republicans by allowing extended deadlines for receiving mail-in ballots in next Tuesday’s election in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, states pivotal to President Donald Trump’s re-election chances.

Link copied to clipboard. Democrat Joe Biden would immediately consult with America’s main allies before deciding on the future of US tariffs on China, seeking “collective leverage” to strengthen his hand against Beijing if he is elected president, Biden top advisers said on Wednesday.

India passed eight million coronavirus cases, Colombo imposed a lockdown and Pakistan extended curbs yesterday as South Asia braces for a new wave of the pandemic.

The man suspected of killing three people at a church in the southern French city of Nice on Thursday is a 21-year-old Tunisian who arrived in Europe just a few weeks ago, sources close to the inquiry have said.

Britain’s Labour opposition has suspended its former leader Jeremy Corbyn after he downplayed a report that detailed serious failings in the party’s handling of persistent anti-Semitism complaints during his 2015-2019 leadership.

Future pandemics will happen more often, kill more people and wreak even worse damage to the global economy than Covid-19 without a fundamental shift in how humans treat nature, the United Nations' biodiversity panel said Thursday.

The Indo-China and US-China tensions can have a “deep negative shadow” on cooperation within the region, including Bangladesh’s economic cooperation with China, two foreign relations analysts have said.

France has raised the security alert for French territory to the highest level after the knife attack in the city of Nice, Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Thursday.