Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa told visiting Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani on Friday that he was ready to stem "illegal immigration" to Europe, the European diplomat said.

China’s Vice-Minister of Commerce, Wang Shouwen, met with the chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corp (LVS), Robert ...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed rang a Wall Street-style bell to officially launch the country's first stock exchange in 50 years on Friday, part of efforts to liberalise the struggling economy.

A Vietnamese court jailed a prominent former lawyer for three years on Friday over Facebook posts, a ruling condemned by rights groups as a fresh attack on freedom of expression in the communist ...

An estimated 3.2 million children under the age of five are expected to face acute malnutrition this year in war-torn Sudan, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).

There will be "real-world harm" if Meta expands its decision to scrap fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram, a global network warned Thursday while disputing Mark Zuckerberg's claim such moderation ...

A Russian court will next week issue verdicts against three of Alexei Navalny's former lawyers, being tried for "extremism" as part of an escalating crackdown on the Kremlin critic's allies even after ...

Outgoing US president Joe Biden will give a swansong foreign policy speech next week claiming America is far stronger than when Donald Trump left office, a senior US official said Friday.

Macau is gearing up to reintroduce a pedestrian campaign for the Old Taipa district this Lunar New Year, with a ...

Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) has reported a 3.15 percent increase in the average tourist price index (TPI) for 2024, ...

Building on the success of its Scuba Series, Aiper unveiled the Scuba X1 and Scuba X1 Pro at IFA 2024. The Scuba X1 Pro Max ...

South Korea's presidential security chief resigned Friday as he faced questioning over why his guards prevented the detention of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol, and as investigators prepared to ...