China’s sprawling high-speed rail network passed 50,000 kilometres (31,000 miles) in total operating distance with the opening of a new line on Friday,
Nigeria said Friday it provided the United States with intelligence on jihadists before the Christmas Day strikes by US forces against what President Donald
Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak was found guilty on Friday of abusing his power to plunder millions from the 1MDB sovereign wealth fund and
Fourteen people were injured in a stabbing attack in a factory in central Japan during which an unspecified liquid was also sprayed, an emergency services
The Japanese government approved a record budget for the upcoming fiscal year on Friday, to pay for everything from bigger defence spending to ballooning
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered officials to step up production of missiles and construct more factories to meet his military’s growing need
Silver surpassed $75 per ounce on Friday for the first time, as both precious and industrial metals hit unprecedented highs at year’s end, driven by economic
On the eve of Christmas, President Donald Trump has unleashed a fresh blast of vitriol at late-night comedy talk shows, saying comedian Stephen Colbert
Flash flood warnings were in effect in Los Angeles and most of southern California on Wednesday as one of the worst Christmas storms in recent memory brought
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have seized a ship flying the flag of Eswatini and carrying “smuggled fuel”, state media reported Sunday. Iranian forces regularly
A Cambodian official accused Thailand of destroying a statue of the Hindu god Vishnu in a disputed border area, after more than two weeks of military clashes
The reservoir of the Amir Kabir dam, one of the largest supplying Iran’s capital, is still largely empty despite sporadic winter rainfall following the
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Israel would invest $110 billion over the next decade to develop its own independent arms industry.
The UK government said Wednesday it is “fully committed” to upholding free speech, after the US slapped visa bans on five prominent Europeans working in
The European Union’s commissioner in charge of the bloc’s single market said Wednesday that US sanctions won’t stop him from doing his work after the Trump
A US federal judge on Tuesday upheld President Donald Trump’s $100,000 fee to process H-1B visa applications, acknowledging it could “inflict significant