Britain’s King Charles has been diagnosed with a form of cancer and the 75-year-old will postpone public-facing duties while he undergoes treatment, Buckingham Palace said yesterday.   

Canada on Sunday announced a two-year extension to a ban on foreign ownership of Canadian housing, saying the step was aimed at addressing worries about Canadians being priced out of housing markets in cities and towns across the country.

The small but strategically placed Maldives will strengthen its military to defend its vast maritime territory, the new president vowed yesterday after ordering Indian troops to withdraw from the archipelago.

The United Nations said today it has appointed an independent panel to assess the neutrality of UNRWA, its embattled agency tasked with helping Palestinian refugees

India will not provide information to Canadian investigators over the murder of a Sikh separatist leader until Canada shares evidence, India's High Commissioner to Canada told the Globe & Mail newspaper in an interview published today

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Saudi Arabia today, his first stop in a wider tour of the Middle East as Washington tries to advance negotiations on a normalization deal between the kingdom and Israel, as well as make progress on talks for the governance of postwar Gaza

The small but strategically placed Maldives will strengthen its military to defend its vast maritime territory, the new president vowed today after ordering Indian troops to withdraw from the archipelago

Australia's government said Monday writer Yang Jun has been given a suspended death sentence in China, describing it as "harrowing news"

Ten cops were killed while six were injured in a late-night attack on the Chodwan Police Station in Dera Ismail Khan on Monday, an official said

All foreigners will have to pay 150,000 rupiah (S$12.80) in tourism tax when they visit Indonesia's Bali from February 14 onwards

The confirmed death toll from ferocious wildfires in central Chile has risen to 112, an Interior Ministry official said Sunday

American forces carried out air strikes against five missiles in Yemen on Sunday -- one designed for land attack and the others for targeting ships, the US military said

Forest fires raging in central Chile have killed at least 51 people and the death toll is likely to keep climbing, authorities said on Saturday, as emergency services battled to snuff out flames threatening urban areas.

Former prime minister Imran Khan’s party has redefined election campaigning in Pakistan with its social media rallies and use of AI technology in a bid to sidestep a nationwide crackdown that has followed it online.

Russia said yesterday that Ukraine killed at least 28 people, including nine women and a child, when its armed forces struck a bakery and restaurant in Russian-controlled eastern Ukraine with Western-supplied rockets.

More than 40 exhausted and hungry Rohingya refugees have been recaptured by Malaysian police following a detention centre breakout by 131 migrants from Myanmar, a senior police official said yesterday.

Israeli forces in Gaza have systematically destroyed buildings in an attempt to create a buffer zone inside the Palestinian territory, experts and rights groups told AFP, raising fears over the civilian cost.

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko yesterday set a world record for total time spent in space, surpassing his compatriot Gennady Padalka who logged more than 878 days in orbit, Russia’s space corporation said.

Scores of Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip yesterday, after Hamas said it needed more time to consider a proposal that would halt Israel’s offensive in the besieged Palestinian territory.

The United States and Britain launched strikes against 36 Houthi targets in Yemen, in the second day of major US operations against Iran-linked groups following a deadly attack on American troops last weekend.