US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and South Korean, Japanese counterparts expressed “serious concern” over the discussion of military cooperation between Russia and North Korea, including possible arms trade, South Korea’s Foreign Ministry said today.

A shallow 4.8-magnitude earthquake rattled Myanmar’s commercial hub Yangon yesterday, the United States Geological Survey and AFP correspondents said, with no immediate reports of damage.

Azerbaijan forces tightened their grip on the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh yesterday as international concern mounted over the plight of ethnic Armenian civilians trapped there.

Indian lawmakers approved a landmark bill on Thursday to ensure one-third reservation for women in lower house of the parliament and in state legislatures, in a step forward to attain gender parity among lawmakers.

Pope Francis yesterday urged European governments to welcome migrants instead of viewing them as invaders, striding into in a hugely sensitive political debate again inflamed by mass arrivals on the second day of his visit to France’s Mediterranean port of Marseille.

The Lebanese military yesterday rescued 27 Syrian migrants from drowning after their rubber boat capsized off the country’s northern coast, the armed forces said.

A fire at a golf ball factory in Taiwan killed at least six people, three of them firefighters who died in an explosion, authorities said yesterday.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is considering introducing measures that would ban the next generation from ever being able to buy cigarettes, The Guardian reported on Friday, citing government sources.

Thailand’s opposition Move Forward named a new leader yesterday after Pita Limjaroenrat, who led the party to a stunning election victory in May, was thwarted in his efforts to become premier.

With the production of plastic on the rise worldwide and creating ever more pollution, the UN environment chief warned that humanity cannot just recycle its way out of the mess, and she called for a total rethink about the way we use plastics.

Warns UN environment chief

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A third of people hospitalised with Covid-19 have "abnormalities" in multiple organs months after getting infected, a UK study said on Saturday, potentially shedding light on the elusive condition of long Covid

The United States made clear on Friday that it expected the Indian government to work with Canada on efforts to investigate the possible involvement of New Delhi agents in the murder of a Canadian citizen in June

The first big ship carrying grain from a Ukrainian Black Sea port has set sail since Moscow quit a deal in July to allow exports, a Ukrainian deputy prime minister said yesterday, part of Kyiv’s campaign to break Russia’s de facto blockade.

Azerbaijani troops are on the edge of Nagorno-Karabakh’s separatist stronghold of Stepanakert, prompting residents to hide in basements in fear, a rebel envoy told AFP yesterday.

Recent Chinese military movements around Taiwan were “abnormal”, the island’s defence minister said yesterday, flagging amphibious exercises in addition to drills Taipei has observed in the province facing the island.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday called on India to cooperate with an investigation into the murder of a Sikh separatist leader in British Columbia and said Canada would not release its evidence.

Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas has said there could be no peace in the Middle East without a two-state solution, sending a warning as Saudi Arabia considers recognizing Israel.

Carbon dioxide detected on Jupiter’s moon Europa comes from the vast ocean beneath its icy shell, research using James Webb Space Telescope data has indicated, potentially bolstering hopes the hidden water could harbour life.