A second major Myanmar ethnic rebel group has said it is ready for Beijing-mediated talks with the junta to end more than a year of renewed fighting that has ravaged areas along the Chinese border.

France’s government yesterday faced a no-confidence vote that could spell the end of Prime Minister Michel Barnier’s administration, plunging the country into uncharted waters.

More than 30,000 people have been forced to flee their homes due to severe flooding in southern Thailand, where the death toll climbed to 29, officials said yesterday.

The UN yesterday appealed for more than $47 billion to deliver vital aid next year in a world ravaged by surging conflicts and the climate crisis, but warned many in need would not be reached.

In three countries now suffering severe food crises, Reuters found that governments or rebels have blocked or falsified the flow of data to the IPC or have tried to suppress its findings.

Nepal and China signed an initial deal in 2017 for President Xi Jinping's Belt and Road Initiative, which aims to build China's infrastructure and trade links with the world.

Chiung Yao was a prolific writer, publishing over 60 books in a career spanning more than five decades.

Around 500 journalists at both papers began the 48-hour strike against the sale to the online news group Tortoise Media.

South Korean lawmakers yesterday accused President Yoon Suk Yeol of declaring martial law to stop criminal investigations into himself and his family, as they kickstarted a push to impeach him.

Beijing has been promoting various measures to try to make having children more attractive to young couples after China posted a second consecutive year of population decline in 2023.

South Korea's main opposition party said Wednesday it would file insurrection charges against President Yoon Suk Yeol and other top security officials over his short-lived declaration of martial law

In a resolution passed by a 157-8 vote, with the United States and Israel among those voting no, and seven abstentions, the Assembly expressed "unwavering support, in accordance with international law, for the two-state solution of Israel and Palestine."

Years of relative quiet in Sinaloa, a predominantly agricultural state home to the notorious cartel of the same name, were shattered in September when two rival factions of the drug gang went to war.

Protesters outside the National Assembly parliament shouted and clapped. “We won!” they chanted, and one demonstrator banged on a drum.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken yesterday said the ceasefire in Lebanon was “holding” despite a series of incidents between Israel and Iran-backed militants Hezbollah.

Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan was booked in a murder case in connection with the death of paramilitary personnel who were run over by a speeding vehicle on the Srinagar Highway last week during a protest by the PTI.

Israeli military strikes killed at least 14 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip yesterday, most of them in the town of Beit Lahiya on the northern edge, medics said, as the army issued new evacuation orders in the south of the tiny enclave.

Top Lebanese officials have urged Washington and Paris to press Israel to uphold a ceasefire, after dozens of military operations on Lebanese soil that Beirut has deemed violations, two senior Lebanese political sources told Reuters yesterday.

"The export of gallium, germanium, antimony, and superhard materials to the United States shall not be permitted"

"It is only when a country completely collapses, the peacekeepers are sent and the govt of the country has to request them"