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Explainer-How will Japan's ruling party pick the next prime minister?
TOKYO - Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party will elect its new president on Friday to replace outgoing Prime Minister Fumio Kishida...
Sep 26, 20242 min read
Displaced Lebanese recount their ordeal of Israeli strikes and escape
BEIRUT - After evacuating her family from the village of Seddiqine in southern Lebanon, Feryal Mehsen went back to fetch belongings. It...
Sep 26, 20242 min read
Exclusive-Russia has secret war drones project in China, intel sources say
Russia has established a weapons programme in China to develop and produce long-range attack drones for use in the war against Ukraine,...
Sep 26, 20246 min read
Factbox-Why did Sri Lanka's president call a snap general election?
COLOMBO - Sri Lanka will hold a parliamentary election on Nov. 14, the government announced on Tuesday, less than two months after the...
Sep 26, 20242 min read
Pope Francis, back from flu, calls airstrikes on Lebanon 'unacceptable'
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis called Israeli strikes on Lebanon a "terrible escalation" of the Middle East conflict on Wednesday at the end...
Sep 26, 20242 min read
First former Singapore minister on trial for graft pleads guilty
SINGAPORE - Singapore's former Transport Minister S. Iswaran has pleaded guilty to receiving gifts while in office, as proceedings began...
Sep 26, 20242 min read
Israeli military says missile intercepted as Tel Aviv sirens sound
JERUSALEM - Warning sirens sounded in Israel's economic capital Tel Aviv on Wednesday as a single surface-to-surface missile was...
Sep 26, 20241 min read
'Fishing net': Police quotas, surveillance trap North Koreans in China
SEOUL/BEIJING - Border police in China's northeast have been given quotas to identify and expel undocumented migrants, one key aspect of...
Sep 26, 20246 min read
Iran's Pezeshkian says Tehran ready to work with world powers to resolve nuclear standoff
UNITED NATIONS - Iran is ready to end its nuclear standoff with the West, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told the United Nations...
Sep 26, 20242 min read
Amid Israel-Hezbollah strikes, Lebanon says only US can stop fighting
BEIRUT/JERUSALEM - An Israeli airstrike on Beirut killed a senior Hezbollah commander on Tuesday as cross-border rocket attacks by both...
Sep 26, 20243 min read
Israel open to ideas to de-escalate in Lebanon, says Israel's UN envoy
UNITED NATIONS - Israel is open to ideas for de-escalating the conflict in Lebanon, Israel's U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon said on Tuesday,...
Sep 26, 20242 min read
Exclusive-Iran brokering talks to send advanced Russian missiles to Yemen's Houthis, sources say
UNITED NATIONS - Iran has brokered ongoing secret talks between Russia and Yemen's Houthi rebels to transfer anti-ship missiles to the...
Sep 26, 20244 min read
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