9+ hour, 4+ min ago   (135+ words) SEOUL — North Korea held a live-fire drill to test long-range artillery and missile units of its army, state media KCNA reported on Monday (Sept 14). The "joint firepower attack drill" on Saturday involved five army units and tested several weapon systems,…...

8+ hour, 55+ min ago   (387+ words) CORON, Phliippines — Authorities in the Philippines said on Sunday (Sept 13) it could take weeks or months to identify the victims of a ferry fire that killed 76 people, as forensic experts begin collecting and comparing DNA samples from charred remains and…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (403+ words) CAIRO — An Iranian commercial vessel was struck early Sunday (Sept 13) off Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, with one person killed and four wounded, Iranian state media said, a day before Tehran seeks to brief regional countries on its…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (201+ words) JAKARTA — Indonesian rescuers were searching on Sunday (Sept 13) for 140 people from a passenger ship that was earlier reported missing in the Java Sea after 103 others were evacuated, one of whom died, a search and rescue agency official said. An Indonesian…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1244+ words) BEIJING — At the World Humanoid Robot Games in China last month, robots jumped, boxed and danced. Some fleet-footed bots ran faster than Usain Bolt over 100 metres. Spectators cheered the machines' improving capabilities and their meme-worthy stumbles. Two days after the…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (303+ words) COPENHAGEN — Iceland's government will submit a bill in February on whaling that could ban it, a move that would leave Norway and Japan as the only two countries in the world to continue commercial whaling. Whaling in Iceland has sparked…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (964+ words) NUREMBERG, Germany — A lone American soldier stood on a dusty road in Germany, fussing with a controller. Moments later, a drone, with wings that stretched almost as wide as his arms, whirred to life and shot into the sky. The…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (240+ words) Prime Minister Lawrence Wong on Friday (Sept 11) conveyed Singapore's condolences to Hong Kong after the passing of its former chief executive Tung Chee Hwa on Sept 8. The 89-year-old served as Hong Kong's first chief executive from 1997 to 2025, following its handover…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (803+ words) KYIV, Ukraine — More than half a million Russian troops have been killed in Ukraine since the start of Moscow's full-scale invasion in February 2022, a senior British defence official said Friday (Sept 11). The dead are part of 1.5 million Russian casualties in…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (353+ words) Foreign investors returned to net buying of Asian stocks in August, ending a nine-month selling streak as AI-linked tech stocks attracted buyers following a sharp July selloff and a strong earnings season. Foreign investors bought a net US$4.72 billion (S…...