More than 40 exhausted and hungry Rohingya refugees have been recaptured by Malaysian police following a detention center breakout by 131 migrants from Myanmar, a senior police official said Sunday.  On Thursday, a total of 115 Rohingya migrants and 16 others -- all of them men --

Namibia's President Hage Geingob has died while receiving medical treatment at a hospital in the capital, Windhoek. Vice-President Nangolo Mbumba announced that Mr Geingob had died in the early hours of Sunday morning. "At his side was his dear wife Madame Monica Geingos

Forest fires raging in central Chile have killed at least 51 people and the death toll is likely to keep climbing, authorities said on Saturday, as emergency services battled to snuff out flames threatening urban areas. Black smoke billowed into the sky over many parts of the

Iran has called US air strikes on Iraq and Syria a "strategic mistake" after 85 targets were hit across the region on Friday. The US has launched retaliatory strikes in response to last week's drone attack on a US military base that killed three American soldiers. The

The US and UK have launched joint strikes on 36 Houthi targets across 13 locations in Yemen. It comes after the US launched strikes on 85 targets in Syria and Iraq on Friday in response to a deadly drone attack on a US military base. The White House had blamed an Iran-backed militia

The United Nations’ top court said on Friday that a case brought by Ukraine against Russia over the brutal 2022 invasion could go ahead after ruling it had jurisdiction over most of the points made by Kyiv. Ukraine dragged Russia before the International Court of Justice, also

Japan plans to enable foreign talent and remote workers, known as "digital nomads," to stay longer in the country under a new visa system in order to boost economic growth and consumption, the government said Friday. Under the envisioned system, foreign digital nomads, who

The U.S. military launched an air assault on dozens of sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iranian-backed militias and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Friday, in the opening salvo of retaliation for the drone strike that killed three U.S. troops in Jordan last weekend. The massive barrage

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi said on Friday that his country would not start a war but that it would “respond strongly” to anyone who tried to bully it. Raisi’s comments came after days of speculation about how Washington might retaliate after three US

Malaysia halved the jail sentence on Friday of former premier Najib Razak, who was convicted of graft and money laundering related to the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal, a move expected to raise further questions about Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim's commitment to fighting graft.

Malaysia is searching for dozens of Rohingya refugees and other people from Myanmar after they escaped from a temporary immigration detention centre in the country’s north. One man was killed after 131 men escaped from the Bidor facility in the northern state of Perak on Thursday

The United States is preparing for strikes on Iran-linked targets in Iraq and Syria as it concluded that Iran manufactured the drone which slammed into a US base in Jordan. Citing US officials, CBS News reported on Thursday that Washington has sanctioned plans for multi-day strikes

Thailand's Move Forward party's advocacy to change the royal defamation law, among the world's strictest, was dealt a severe blow on Wednesday. The country's Constitutional Court ruled the plan to reform the lese majeste laws protecting King Maha Vajiralongkorn was

The US has managed to dismantle the hacking efforts of a Chinese state-sponsored group that had been targeting key public infrastructure like the power grid and pipelines, says the FBI. The FBI's director told lawmakers it had executed a campaign to shut down the "Volt

Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi have been jailed for 14 years, the second sentence handed to Pakistan's former prime minister in two days. The couple were convicted of illegally profiting from state gifts - just a week before a general election in which he is barred from

Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit NATO member Turkey to meet President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Feb. 12, a Turkish official said on Wednesday. Putin’s visit will be his first to a NATO member since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Armenia on Thursday formally joined the International Criminal Court (ICC), officials said, in a move that traditional ally Moscow has denounced as “unfriendly.” The Hague-based court in March issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin over the war in

Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi have been sentenced to 14 years in prison, a day after the former Pakistan prime minister was jailed for 10 years. Khan, who was ousted as PM by his opponents in 2022, is already serving a three-year jail term after being convicted of corruption.

The United Nations' top court will hand down its verdict on Wednesday in a case brought by Ukraine against Russia for alleged "terrorism financing" and "racial discrimination" after its annexation of Crimea in 2014. Kyiv has accused Moscow of being a

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 jolted 106 km N of Hihifo, Tonga at 0435 GMT on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at 15.00 degrees south latitude and 173.63 degrees west longitude. Source Xinhua