SAO PAULO: The race for Brazil’s October elections officially opens today with duelling campaign events by far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro and leftist ex-president Luiz Inacio...
SEOUL: The United States, South Korea and Japan participated in a ballistic missile defence exercise off Hawaii’s coast last week, the Pentagon said today, reviving...
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's ousted president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, is expected to arrive in Thailand tomorrow, seeking temporary shelter in a second Southeast Asian country after fleeing...
TAIPEI: Taiwan's foreign minister said today that China was using the military drills it launched in protest against US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit as...
SHANGHAI: Parts of Tibet are running mass Covid-19 testing today, including the Chinese autonomous region's two largest cities, to fight a rare flare-up, while clusters...
SYDNEY: Australia's Covid-19 winter outbreak fuelled by the new Omicron sub-variants BA.4/5 may have peaked early, Health Minister Mark Butler said today, as hospitals reported...