SINGAPORE -- The latest U.S.-backed proposal from Israel calling for a ceasefire with the Palestinian group Hamas is an "important right step" to end the eight-month war in Gaza, Indonesia's Defense ...

VARANASI, India -- The temple town of Varanasi in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi has chosen to fight for his parliamentary seat, began voting on Saturday.

ULAANBAATAR -- Mongolia is counting on a new sovereign wealth fund system likened to Norway's to ensure its resource riches are fairly distributed, but some worry the program is more of a political ...

FRANKFURT -- Borussia Dortmund, a top German soccer club, will compete on Saturday for its first UEFA Champions League (CL) title in 27 years. Nearly bankrupt two decades ago, the publicly listed club ...

TOKYO -- Japanese companies are rushing to make working rules and paid leave schemes more flexible to support employees who ...

SINGAPORE -- As Lawrence Wong takes over leadership of Singapore last month in the first such change in 20 years, one of the ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -- Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has cancelled his "dearMoon" mission, which the project said was to have been the first private flight around the moon, the mission announced on ...

SINGAPORE -- U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Saturday pinned the blame for the Ukraine war on Russian President Vladimir Putin, after a Chinese military officer suggested that NATO's eastern ...

HAMBURG, Germany/ HONG KONG -- Great Wall Motor is closing its European headquarters in Munich on Aug. 1 and laying off all ...

Andrew Haigh's 2023 film "All of Us Strangers" has been widely acclaimed by U.K. and U.S.-based audiences, winning seven awards at the British Independent Film Awards and best screenplay at the Los ...

NEW YORK -- Republican legislators on the House of Representatives' influential China-focused committee on Friday urged the U ...

On Friday, Marcos addressed this year's Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore as keynote speaker, which the Philippine government ...