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Japan is hoping to boost cooperation in hydrocarbon and decarbonisation, and environmentally friendly energy technologies, with Middle East countries.

July 16, 2023 11:15 AM

Five bodies of people trapped under a tunnel submerged by heavy rains were pulled out on Sunday.

South Korea has been pounded by heavy rains since July 9 forcing nearly 6,000 people to evacuate and left thousands without electricity the past several days while flooding or destroying dozens of homes.

California’s Death Valley, one of the hottest places on Earth, is also likely to register new peaks on Sunday, with the mercury possibly rising to 130F (54C).

It may sound like an official has leant on their keyboard - but it's an acronym we'll hear more often.

Threats by conservatives towards a newly engaged lesbian ex-lawmaker highlights how a resurgent religious lobby is shifting Malaysia away from personal freedoms.

Twenty years after he was first created in a comic book, Pavitr Prabhakar makes his film debut.

Amid growing concern about dollar risks, a stable, reliable non-Western alternative currency system would benefit a multipolar world and be a major milestone towards an Asian century

The two biggest economies and polluters need to work together to avert the crisis, experts say.

July 16, 2023 2:13 AM

Mr Modi’s government has been widely accused of using India's defamation law to silence critics.

The opposition leader was sentenced to two years in prison for comments he made in 2019 which a court ruled were insulting to PM Narendra Modi. Gandhi filed an appeal asking the Supreme Court to stay his conviction, one of his lawyers said on Saturday.

Yoon vowed to ‘expand the scale’ of humanitarian and non-lethal military assistance to Ukraine, and Zelensky thanked him for the ‘meaningful talks [and] strong support’.

Tens of millions are battling dangerously high temperatures in the latest example of the threat from global warming as scientists insist dependence on fossil fuels is behind intensification of heatwaves.

July 15, 2023 8:00 PM

Officials say more rain may be expected on Sunday.

July 15, 2023 7:45 PM

Paraguay is the last remaining South American nation to recognise Taiwan over Beijing.

Pita Limjaroenrat of the Move Forward Party says he’ll withdraw his candidacy if parliament does not endorse him next week after knock back by senators against his pledge to reform strict royal defamation laws.

By 11am on Saturday, 1,567 people had been evacuated nationwide as water overtopped the dam in North Chungcheong province and the tally is expected to rise as more heavy rain is forecast for the Korean peninsula on Sunday.

Ly Ry and Bun Kheit of the opposition Candlelight Party have been accused of ‘inciting people to destroy ballots’ ahead of a general election on July 23 in which Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Cambodian People’s Party is running almost unopposed.

July 15, 2023 5:20 PM

He said he would step aside to let the party with the second-most votes form the coalition.

July 15, 2023 5:15 PM

India's dependence on Russia will most likely continue for at least another decade, said experts.