WASHINGTON, Sept 8 — US Republicans will gather in Dallas, Texas, next week for a two-day convention aimed at convincing voters that Donald Trump is effectively on the ballot in

PONTIANAK, Sept 7 — Toiling around the clock, haggard Indonesian firefighters on Borneo island cannot keep up with the blazes devouring landscapes and shrouding communities in a cloying haze. They

KATHMANDU, Sept 7 — Nepal held a national day of mourning on Monday for victims of devastating glacial floods, as families of missing hydropower workers feared trapped in tunnels prayed

BERLIN, Sept 7 — German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservatives licked their wounds Monday after a crushing state election defeat in the ex-communist east, as the triumphant far-right AfD launched a

JAKARTA, Sept 7 — Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has ordered authorities to step up firefighting efforts as they continue to battle forest and land fires across six priority provinces in

JERUSALEM, Sept 7 — Israel on Monday threatened a “full-scale war” against the Palestinian Authority if it prepared an attack against Israeli forces or settlements similar to the one launched

JAKARTA, Sept 7 — Volcanic ash conditions around several Indonesian airports showed signs of improvement on Monday, with tests at four airports finding no ash at ground level, including four

JAKARTA, Sept 7 — Indonesia’s main airport and three others postponed reopening on Monday after halting operations following a volcanic eruption that left hundreds of thousands of passengers stranded. Mount

GENEVA, Sept 7 — The United Nations rights chief warned Monday that artificial intelligence could pose an “existential threat to humanity”, demanding immediate action to reduce the risks. Speaking before

GENEVA, Sept 7 — The United Nations rights chief on Monday demanded accountability for swelling numbers of deaths in US immigration custody, and urged Washington to halt deportations to places