A UN committee found that Australia violated a human rights treaty by detaining a group of asylum seekers, including minors, on the remote Pacific island of Nauru even after they were granted refugee ...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday (Jan 8) said US President-elect Donald Trump's talk of possibly annexing ...

Jamie Lee Curtis and her husband Christopher Guest have donated US$1 million (S$1.4 million) to victims of the Los Angeles wildfires. The actress, 66, and her partner, 76, announced the family's ...

Ben Affleck has returned to his US$20 million (S$27.3 million) mansion. The Good Will Hunting actor, 52, was one of a string ...

New York's top court rejected President-elect Donald Trump's bid to delay his sentencing Friday (Jan 10) for his conviction on criminal charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, a court ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping will send a high-level envoy in his place to US President-elect Donald Trump's Jan 20 ...

Russia has launched more than 51,000 guided aerial bombs against Ukraine since the start of its full-blown invasion nearly three years ago, the Ukrainian air force said on Thursday (Jan 9). Guided, or ...

The US House of Representatives voted on Thursday (Jan 9) to sanction the International Criminal Court to protest its issuing ...

An official Palestinian tally of direct deaths in the Israel-Hamas war likely undercounted the number of casualties by 41 per ...

China's top anti-graft watchdog said on Friday (Jan 10) that it had filed more than 4,000 disciplinary cases against officials in 2024, as it attempts to tackle a long-running corruption problem.

Four people were killed on Thursday (Jan 7) in instances of shelling in Ukraine, one blamed on Russia's military, the other on Ukrainian forces, regional officials said. In Donetsk region, the focal ...

Two massive wildfires menacing Los Angeles from the east and west were still burning uncontained on Thursday (Jan 9), but a brief respite from the fierce winds that have fanned the flames for two days ...