GUANGZHOU, July 6 — As China’s job market continues to tighten and lay-offs ripple through private-sector industries, unemployed workers are increasingly seeking refuge in an unlikely place: local Communist Party […]

TOKYO, July 6 —Tokyo said today it had strongly urged China to reconsider a test missile launch in the Pacific Ocean after the Japanese embassy in Beijing was informed by

BEIJING, July 6 — China’s navy said it successfully conducted a test missile launch in the Pacific Ocean on Monday, after nations in the region warned that Beijing was planning to

SYDNEY, July 6 — China is preparing to test-fire a nuclear-capable missile into the Pacific Ocean, Papua New Guinea’s foreign minister and a New Zealand government source told AFP today.

MANILA, July 6 — The Philippine Senate is set to open Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment trial today, with her political career — and a planned 2028 presidential run —

SYDNEY, July 6 — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese apologised today for suggesting in a recent interview that he would “shag” pop star Kylie Minogue. Albanese was asked to nominate

WASHINGTON, March 6 — A top Trump administration official today shrugged off a July Fourth parade by masked white supremacists in Washington as an example of “messy” democracy that fell

CATIA LA MAR (Venezuela), July 6 —Deaths from Venezuela’s devastating twin earthquakes rose to at least 3,342 yesterday as officials began to bury dozens of bodies left unidentified 11 days

KATHMANDU, July 5 — One hundred days after taking power promising sweeping reform, Nepal’s 36-year-old rapper-turned-Prime Minister Balendra Shah has upended the government while remaining an elusive public figure. The

TORRE BERETTI (Italy), July 5 — Summer came too early to Europe’s most important rice-growing region and weeds are taking over Sharon Angoli’s parched paddies in Italy’s Pavia province. “That