Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga yesterday set a 2050 deadline for the world’s third-largest economy to become carbon neutral, significantly

With an eye on China’s increasing assertiveness in Asia, India and the United States will sign an agreement tomorrow which will allow the Indian armed forces access to precision data and topographical images on a real time basis from the American military satellites.

It is almost dawn when Bangladeshi worker Billal Khan, 28, completes his 11-hour night shift on the MRT tracks, installing noise barriers along viaducts, and returns to his factory-converted dormitory in Singapore.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defence Secretary Mark T Esper arrived at New Delhi today for the third edition of the structured dialogue with their Indian counterparts which is aimed at strengthening defence and security ties and bolstering allyship.

Malaysia’s King Al-Sultan Abdullah yesterday rejected a request by Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin for him to declare a state of emergency in

Afghan forces have killed a top al-Qaeda militant wanted by the United States, as the government yesterday accused the Taliban of still keeping close

Turkey has extended once again a research ship’s search for gas in contested waters of the eastern Mediterranean in defiance of calls from the West to

Attackers armed with guns and machetes killed at least eight children Saturday in a raid on a school in southwestern Cameroon, the United Nations

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that a trio of normalisation accords with Arab states offered an end to the Jewish state’s former geographic isolation, with shorter and cheaper flights.

An international treaty banning nuclear weapons has been ratified by a 50th country, the UN said, allowing the “historic” text to enter into force after 90 days.

Thousands of people protested in the centre of Thailand’s capital Bangkok yesterday in the first demonstration since Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha ignored their Saturday night deadline to resign.

Calls to boycott French goods are growing in the Arab world and beyond, after President Emmanuel Macron criticised Islamists and vowed not to “give up cartoons” depicting a controversial topic for Muslims.

As the 2020 presidential election enters its final week, a majority of Americans appear ready to accept the result of an exhausting campaign even if their preferred candidate loses, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found.

Joe Biden vows to revive the moral leadership of the United States in the world if he is elected president, but after nearly four years of Donald Trump smashing through norms, is the veteran Democrat’s vision even possible?

Nigerian authorities struggled to halt looting across the country on Sunday as crowds defied curfew orders to ransack government warehouses in the latest in a wave of unrest sweeping Africa's most populous nation.

Thai protesters are learning a whole new language, developed within days to coordinate among crowds of thousands of people at demonstrations that have swollen in defiance of a government ban and despite the arrest of many protest leaders.

Gunmen stormed a school in Cameroon on Saturday and opened fire indiscriminately, killing at least six children and wounding about eight more in a region where separatist insurgents operate, officials and parents said.

Wary that polls showing Donald Trump behind could again be wrong, New Yorkers turned out massively Saturday to vote early as they hope to ensure a “really big win” for Joe Biden.

US President Donald Trump on Friday voiced anger at Ethiopia over its construction of a huge dam on the Nile River and appeared to suggest that

Israel said on Friday it will not oppose US sales of “specific weapons systems” to the United Arab Emirates, in an apparent reference to the F-35