SEOUL, Oct 19 — The powerful sister of North Korea’s leader said today that “a grave situation is prevailing” along the Southern border, according to state media, and Pyongyang was

SYDNEY, Oct 19 — Australian independent lawmaker Helen Haines was deliberately struck by a car today and suffered “critical injuries”, authorities said, in what Prime Minister Anthony Albanese described as

JAKARTA, Oct 19 —  Fires in Indonesia burned through more than 1.9 million hectares between January and the end of September this year, a monitor analysing satellite imagery said today. 

PARIS, Oct 19 — President Emmanuel Macron, under pressure after violent protests in France, acknowledged on Monday failures in anticipation and intelligence but refused to accept the resignation of his interior

JAKARTA, Oct 19 — The number of fire hotspots across Indonesia more than quadrupled to 1,104 yesterday with Kalimantan bearing the brunt as prolonged forest and land fires generated smoke and haze,

SAMARKAND, Oct 19 — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio denied today that intelligence sharing with Ukraine had been suspended and urged President Volodymyr Zelensky to “focus” on ending the war with

JERUSALEM, Oct 19 — US President Donald Trump endorsed his ally Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday ahead of Israel’s closely fought parliamentary election on Oct 27, giving the veteran prime minister a boost

  KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 19 — The Myanmar National Human Rights Commission (MNHRC) has been disqualified from the South-east Asia National Human Rights Institutions Forum (SEANF), costing it its turn

WASHINGTON, Oct 19 — President Donald Trump yesterday unveiled his plans for overhauling a beloved municipal golf course in the US capital, a project already mired in a contentious legal

  RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 19 — After a day of energetic rallies by their supporters, Brazil’s leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro will