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UNITED NATIONS: The United States asked the UN Security Council to meet on North Korea on Wednesday (Oct 4) after Pyongyang fired a ballistic missile over Japan, but diplomats said...

Immediately lawmakers in Truss's Conservative Party - some who helped force the top tax rate reversal - opposed any move to reduce the increases in benefits at a time when...

GENEVA: The United Nations has revised up its humanitarian appeal for Pakistan five-fold to US$816 million from US$160 million as it seeks to control a surge in water-borne diseases following...

WASHINGTON: US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Sunday (Oct 2) he sees no imminent invasion of Taiwan by China but said China was trying to establish a "new normal"...

General Kenneth Wilsbach, commander of the US Air Force in the Pacific, said North Korea's possession of such a weapon was especially unsettling because, unlike other powers, Pyongyang did not...

DUBAI: Iran, which has blamed "foreign enemies" for protests that swept the country after the death of a woman in morality police custody, said on Friday (Sep 30) it had...

FORT MYERS, Florida:A resurgent Hurricane Ian barreled toward South Carolina on Friday (Sep 30), a day after carving a path of destruction across the Florida peninsula, washing away houses, destroying...

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia on Friday (Sep 30) said it will challenge a move by the heirs of a former Southeast Asian sultan to seize its Dutch assets as part of...

South Korea's new President Yoon Suk-yeol, who took office in May, has vowed to boost trilateral security cooperation with the United States and Japan to better counter the North's evolving...

WASHINGTON: The United States on Thursday (Sep 29) imposed sanctions on companies it accused of involvement in Iran's petrochemical and petroleum trade, including five based in China, pressuring Tehran as...