China wants to help coordinate global efforts to regulate fast-evolving AI technology and share the country's advances, Premier Li Qiang told the annual World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai.

The rally organised by opposition parties marked the first major protest in Southeast Asia's sixth-largest economy since Anwar was propelled to power after general elections in 2022.

Civic groups backed by Lai's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) are seeking to unseat 31 lawmakers belonging to the main opposition Kuomintang party

Depression goes undiagnosed when symptoms are mistaken for age-related physical illnesses

The Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced restrictions on the so-called "Cartel of the Suns," classing it as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist entity.

Thailand and Cambodia clashed for a third day on Saturday, as the death toll from the fighting rose to 33

A Russian rocket put an Iranian communications satellite into space yesterday, Iranian state media reported, the latest achievement for an aerospace programme that has long concerned Western governments.

Ukraine has received confirmation from partners that they will provide three Patriot missile defence systems and discussions are underway to obtain seven more, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a $565-million credit line and launched free trade talks with the Maldives yesterday during a visit to the Indian Ocean archipelago, where India competes with China for influence.

Unidentified gunmen in Nigeria’s restive Plateau state killed 14 people in an ambush Thursday as they returned home from a weekly market, local residents and a Red Cross official told AFP.

The number of Indonesians living under the poverty line has hit a record low for the past two decades, the country’s statistics bureau said yesterday.

A series of explosions killed at least 12 people and wounded more than 100 at a weapons depot in northwestern Syria on Thursday, a monitor said.

Iran said it would continue nuclear talks with European powers after “serious, frank, and detailed” conversations yesterday, the first such face-to-face meeting since Israel and the US bombed Iran last month.

An internal US government analysis found no evidence of systematic theft by the Palestinian group Hamas of US-funded humanitarian supplies, challenging the main rationale that Israel and the US give for backing a new armed private aid operation.

Doctors Without Borders charity said yesterday that a quarter of all young children screened at its clinics in Gaza were malnourished, blaming Israel’s “policy of starvation”.

SpaceX’s Starlink suffered one of its biggest international outages on Thursday when an internal software failure knocked tens of thousands of users offline, a rare disruption for Elon Musk’s powerful satellite internet system.

The United States lifted sanctions designations on several allies of Myanmar’s ruling generals on Thursday, two weeks after the head of the ruling junta praised President Donald Trump and called for an easing of sanctions in a letter responding to a tariff warning.

At least seven children were killed and 17 injured in India’s western state of Rajasthan after the roof of a school building collapsed yesterday, local media reported, with dozens still feared trapped under the rubble.

Thailand’s acting Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai warned yesterday that cross-border clashes with Cambodia that have uprooted more than 130,000 people “could develop into war”, as the countries traded deadly strikes for a second day.

France will formally recognise a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly in September, President Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday