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Olympics-Japan ponder Paris hangover after record Tokyo haul
PARIS - Japan may have outdone themselves at the Tokyo Olympics. After a record haul of 58 medals at home three years ago, Team Japan is...
Jul 26, 20242 min read
North Korean hackers are stealing military secrets, U.S. and allies say
LONDON - North Korean hackers have conducted a global cyber espionage campaign to try to steal classified military secrets to support...
Jul 26, 20242 min read
Pakistan's finance minister in Beijing to seek debt relief, say sources
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb arrived in Beijing on Thursday for talks on power sector debt relief alongside...
Jul 25, 20242 min read
Indonesia presses Myanmar on peace commitments as ASEAN ministers meet
Indonesia's foreign minister at a regional meeting on Thursday called out warring camps in Myanmar over their refusal to agree to...
Jul 25, 20242 min read
India and China agree to approach border issues with urgency
NEW DELHI - Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar met his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on Thursday in Laos, where the two...
Jul 25, 20241 min read
Analysis-Battered Hamas confounds Israel's bid to declare victory
CAIRO/JERUSALEM - Senior figures in Israel's government have said it is closing in on its war aims of defeating Hamas militarily and the...
Jul 25, 20246 min read
Putin meets Syria's Assad to discuss Turkey and Israel
MOSCOW/AMMAN - Russian President Vladimir Putin met Bashar al-Assad in the Kremlin as Moscow nudges the Syrian leader towards a meeting...
Jul 25, 20242 min read
Oil spill threatens Philippines capital after tanker capsizes
MANILA - A marine tanker carrying industrial fuel sank in rough seas off the Philippines on Thursday, causing the death of a crew member...
Jul 25, 20242 min read
Explainer-Why does Nepal suffer so many air crashes?
NEW DELHI - Eighteen people were killed in Nepal when a small passenger plane crashed while taking off from the main airport in the...
Jul 25, 20242 min read
ASEAN seeks to tackle Myanmar crisis, South China Sea tension
The Southeast Asian bloc ASEAN met in Laos on Wednesday as it seeks to advance a stalled bid to resolve a crisis in Myanmar and cool...
Jul 25, 20243 min read
Exclusive-US, Vietnam discuss supplying Hanoi with C-130 military transport planes, sources say
HANOI/WASHINGTON - The United States and Vietnam are discussing the sale of Lockheed Martin C-130 #Hercules military transport planes to...
Jul 25, 20242 min read
Typhoon Gaemi strengthens as it nears Taiwan, two dead, work halted
YILAN, Taiwan - Taiwan hunkered down on Wednesday for the arrival of a strengthening Typhoon Gaemi, with financial markets shut, flights...
Jul 24, 20243 min read
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