11+ hour, 4+ min ago   (135+ words) SEOUL — North Korea held a live-fire drill to test long-range artillery and missile units of its army, state media KCNA reported on Monday (Sept 14). The "joint firepower attack drill" on Saturday involved five army units and tested several weapon systems,…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (403+ words) CAIRO — An Iranian commercial vessel was struck early Sunday (Sept 13) off Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, with one person killed and four wounded, Iranian state media said, a day before Tehran seeks to brief regional countries on its…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (201+ words) JAKARTA — Indonesian rescuers were searching on Sunday (Sept 13) for 140 people from a passenger ship that was earlier reported missing in the Java Sea after 103 others were evacuated, one of whom died, a search and rescue agency official said. An Indonesian…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (303+ words) COPENHAGEN — Iceland's government will submit a bill in February on whaling that could ban it, a move that would leave Norway and Japan as the only two countries in the world to continue commercial whaling. Whaling in Iceland has sparked…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (964+ words) NUREMBERG, Germany — A lone American soldier stood on a dusty road in Germany, fussing with a controller. Moments later, a drone, with wings that stretched almost as wide as his arms, whirred to life and shot into the sky. The…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (353+ words) Foreign investors returned to net buying of Asian stocks in August, ending a nine-month selling streak as AI-linked tech stocks attracted buyers following a sharp July selloff and a strong earnings season. Foreign investors bought a net US$4.72 billion (S…...

4+ day, 37+ min ago   (501+ words) The adjustment to political salaries enables Singapore to continue attracting capable people into politics, which, in turn, provides the quality of Government Singapore deserves, said Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Taking to social media on Thursday (Sept 10) after MPs debated…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (708+ words) "There is never going to be a politically convenient time to adjust political salaries," said Prime Minister Lawrence Wong in Parliament on Thursday (Sept 10) as he wrapped up the debate on a revised political salary framework and the Government's response…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (655+ words) Five members of a crew killed when an Amazon cargo jet smashed into their van were wrapping up their eight-hour shift cleaning planes at the Miami airport when they were struck, lawyers for one of the victims said on Wednesday....

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (632+ words) NEW YORK — A US prosecutor described China's Huawei as a criminal enterprise that stole from American companies to build its telecommunications empire, as the trial against the tech giant kicked off in Brooklyn federal court on Wednesday. "Theft, lies, cover-up,…...