WELLINGTON – Tens of thousands of New Zealanders rallied before parliament on Tuesday in one of the country’s largest ever protests to oppose a bill that opponents say...
LAS VEGAS – US Vice President Kamala Harris said on Thursday that Joe Biden’s decision to drop out of the 2024 election race this summer was “one of the...
DHAKA — As more extreme rainfall hits South Asia leading to floods that do not recognize national borders, regional countries must work together more...
RUSSIA’s overnight bombing of regions in eastern Ukraine killed at least one, local officials said on Sunday, after Moscow ended a self-declared Christmas ceasefire...
WASHINGTON — Hours after Republican leader Kevin McCarthy finally clinched the US House speaker role, his party was already rolling out its initial legislative...
HONG KONG/SHANGHAI — Travelers began streaming across land and sea crossings from Hong Kong to mainland China on Sunday, many eager for long-awaited reunions,...
WASHINGTON – A US warship sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Thursday, part of what the US military calls routine activity but which has riled China. In recent years, US warships, and on occasion those...
US pharma giant Pfizer Inc. said on Thursday it is planning to realign its early-stage research into treatments for rare diseases and oncology, to focus on areas like rare and benign hematology. Pfizer will also move away from...
LONDON/MADRID – Britain’s Prince Harry says his older brother and heir to the throne Prince William knocked him to the floor during a 2019 argument over...
SINGAPORE – Southeast Asia’s tourist economies are set to be leading beneficiaries of China’s scrapping of travel bans as they have steered clear of the COVID-19 tests before entry that Europe, Japan and the United...
SYDNEY – The COVID pandemic has blown a million-person hole in Australia’s population projections in a challenge for an economy that has relied on having more consumers to drive growth, though a speedy...
BEIJING/HEBRON, Ky. — US President Joseph R. Biden raised concern about China’s handling of its COVID-19 outbreak hours after the World Health Organization (WHO)...