Asia

Canada’s Department of National Defence has said it detected a “high-altitude surveillance balloon” and was monitoring a “potential second incident”. The department is also working with the US to safeguard...

A Chinese province of more than 80 million people will lift restrictions that prevent unmarried people from having children and remove the restriction on the number of children. This is...

The Prime Minister of Iraq, Mohammed al-Sudani has discharged the nation’s central bank governor amid growing anger over the weakening of the local currency in recent weeks that has caused the price...

The Japanese government is offering to pay families to relocate out of its overcrowded capital Tokyo in an effort to bolster the population of its countryside. Families in the Tokyo...

In a historic feat, the Sudan government has signed a $6 billion agreement with a consortium led by the United Arab Emirates' AD Ports Group and Invictus Investment to develop...

Popular actress, Taraneh Alidoosti, has been arrested by Iranian authorities over her criticism of the death penalty in the country.   The actress, who starred in the Oscar-winning film "The Salesman,"...

Indonesian lawmakers have passed a new criminal code that prohibits sex outside marriage.  The new law applies to foreign residents and tourists, bans living together before marriage, apostasy, and offers...

President of South Korea, Yoon Suk-Yeol has tendered an apology for the deadly Halloween crush in Seoul, pledging to hold to account any officials found to be responsible for poor...

President of Indonesia Joko Widodo has stated that his government will demolish and rebuild a football stadium where 133 people died in a stampede in October in one of the...

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has come under preliminary investigation over his comments that Israel had committed “50 Holocausts” against Palestinians. It was reported that the remarks, during a news conference...