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Woodside and industry experts have long said that it would cost billions more to develop Sunrise via Timor-Leste instead of Darwin. Ramos-Horta said that it made no sense to him...

"FORETASTE OF THE FUTURE" At the global scale, there has been a reduction over the past two decades in the total burned area, as a result of decreasing numbers of...

GENEVA: Sri Lanka must immediately reverse its "drift towards militarisation" and prosecute those responsible for leading the country to its unprecedented economic crisis, the United Nations said on Tuesday (Sep 6)....

Sources familiar with the plans told Reuters US Representative Stephanie Murphy, a Florida Democrat, was leading a bipartisan House delegation that would arrive in Taiwan on Wednesday and stay until...

WASHINGTON: A military contractor who pleaded guilty in the US Navy's worst corruption scandal has escaped house arrest in San Diego, the US Marshals Service said on Monday (Sep 5)....

Days after Heyzer's visit dozens of Myanmar civil society groups dismissed her trip as the "latest evidence of the historical ineffectualness" of UN envoys, and criticised her meeting with junta...

Let's get you up to speed with the day's stories. A magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck southwestern China on Monday (Sep 5), killing at least 21 people. The quake hit 43km...

BEIJING: Beijing on Monday (Sep 5) accused the United States of launching "tens of thousands" of cyberattacks on China and pilfering troves of sensitive data, including from a public research...

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister Ali Sabry said on Monday (Sep 5) that a constitutional amendment Bill trimming presidential powers is expected to become law in a couple of weeks....

Myanmar's junta leader was on a visit to Russia on Monday (Sep 5), his second trip there in less than two months, as Myanmar's ruling military tries to shore up...