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The recent attendance by four Asia Pacific leaders at the NATO summit reflects a "consequential shift" in the U.S.

South Korea is beefing up security for high-profile figures in light of the assassination of Japan's former premier Shinzo Abe, officials said on Tuesday, including for an LGBTQ pride parade that the new U.S.

Japan mourns as funeral for former PM Abe held in Tokyo

Shanghai residents queued up in sweltering heat for compulsory mass testing for COVID-19 on Tuesday, as persistent small outbreaks fuelled anxiety in a city that is still recovering from the painful two-month lockdown lifted a few weeks ago.

Sri Lankan immigration officials said on Tuesday they prevented the president's brother and former finance minister Basil Rajapaksa from flying out of the country, as anger mounted against the powerful family for a debilitating economic crisis.

Panama government reduces fuel prices in face of protests

'Everywhere they dig': looters hunt Albanian antiques

New Zealand's easing of its strict border curbs has triggered a rush of new departures among locals seeking fresh opportunities abroad, adding further pressure to the country's already tight employment market.

Hong Kong jails terminally ill activist for attempted Olympics protest

Paris 2015 attacker's sentence stands after no appeal filed

China locks down city of 300,000 over single Covid case

Mexico's leader will visit the White House on Tuesday, a month after snubbing an invitation to a U.S-hosted summit that sought to craft regional consensus on how to stem migrant border crossings that are piling pressure on the Biden administration.

Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has informed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe that he will resign, the prime minister's office said on Monday, after tens of thousands of protesters stormed the official residences of both men.

Macau lockdown begins, Hong Kong mulls health code app

Kiribati quits key Pacific island bloc

If shipping is the beating heart of global trade, its pulse is about to get slower.

Austria and Hungary fight nature to stop lake vanishing

China detains alleged bank fraud 'gang' after rare mass protests

Ukrainian students seeking new lives in Taiwan see parallels in Russia, China

After a strong showing in an election overshadowed by the killing of former premier Shinzo Abe, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida may have fresh momentum to hike defence spending on a scale beyond the grasp of his slain mentor.

Fleeing Rajapaksa's cash handed to Sri Lankan police

The mother of the man arrested for the killing of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe is a member of the Unification Church, the church's Japan head said on Monday.

The biggest single pipeline carrying Russian gas to Germany began annual maintenance on Monday, with flows expected to stop for 10 days, but governments, markets and companies are worried the shutdown might be extended because of the war in Ukraine.

Ex-Trump advisor Bannon agrees to testify at Capitol riot hearings: reports

A year after floods devastated his town in the east of Belgium, 70-year-old retired welder Mario Bonelli remains traumatised by the event and fellow townsfolk are still repairing their ravaged homes.

King Maha Vajiralongkorn of Thailand has been living the life that many of us cannot even imagine of living.

The euro languished at $1.01475, having lost 2.3% last week and briefly falling to its lowest since late 2002.

A U.S. congressional committee has asked data brokers and personal health apps to tell how they handle users' reproductive health data amid concerns states will use the information to track patients seeking abortion where it is illegal.

Syria's Assad in first official visit to Aleppo since war