East and Southeast Asia are awash in record amounts of methamphetamine and other synthetic drugs, the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime said in a new report Tuesday, May 28.
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Friday, May 24, called removal of Estonian buoys by Russian border guards on river separating Baltic country from Russia “unacceptable,” and demanded an immediate return of orange floats.
Norway, Ireland and Spain said Wednesday, May 22, they would recognize a Palestinian state, a historic move that deepens Israel’s isolation as chief prosecutor of International Criminal court sought arrest warrants for leaders of Israel and Hamas.
Vatican made another big overture to China on Tuesday, May 21, reaffirming Catholic Church poses no threat to Beijing's sovereignty and admitting that Western missionaries had made “errors” in past centuries in their zeal to convert Chinese faithful.
French forces reported another death Saturday, May 18, in clashes in French Pacific territory of New Caledonia, the sixth fatality in a week of unrest scorching the archipelago whose indigenous population has long sought independence.
UN announced that a former Indian Army Colonel Waibhav Anil Kale died on Monday, May 13, when a UN vehicle was struck while traveling to a European hospital in Rafah. Citing UN sources, Turkish news agency TRT blamed Israel for the strike.
Georgia's parliament green-lit a final vote on a proposed law that critics see as a threat to media freedom and the country’s aspirations to join the European Union on Monday, May 13, a day after police dispersed the latest protests against it.
Argentina’s biggest trade unions mounted one of the fiercest challenges to libertarian government of President Javier Milei, staging a general strike on Thursday, May 9, that led to cancellation of flights and halted bus, rail and subway lines.
China and EU candidate Serbia signed an agreement on Wednesday, May 8, to build a “shared future,” making the Balkan country the first in Europe to agree on such a document with Beijing.
Hamas said Monday, May 6, it accepted Egyptian-Qatari cease-fire proposal, but Israel said the deal did not meet its core demands and it was pushing ahead with assault on Rafah, as Israeli campaign has already killed over 34,000 people.
Several episodes reflect the extreme measures taken by countries like China and Iran to intimidate, harass and sometimes plot attacks against political opponents and activists who live in the U.S.
Colombia has become the latest Latin American country to announce that it will break diplomatic relations with Israel over its military campaign in Gaza.
Police began dismantling pro-Palestinian demonstrators’ encampment Thursday, May 2, at University of California after protesters defied orders to leave, about 24 hours after counterprotesters attacked a tent encampment.
Nations made progress on a treaty to end plastic pollution, finishing the latest round of negotiations in Canada early Tuesday, Apr 30, amid sharp disagreements about whether to put global limits on plastic production.
Uttarakhand on Monday, Apr 29, reported 47 fresh cases of forest fires that gutted over 78 hectares of land in the hills and injured two persons. In 2021, 3,576 hectares of forest cover was destroyed followed by 3,425 hectares in 2022.
Iran on Saturday, Apr 27, said the mostly Indian crew of a Portuguese-flagged ship that was seized by Iranian forces in its maritime territory two weeks ago is being granted consular access, raising hopes for their early release and extradition.
US will pull majority of its troops from Chad and Niger as it works to restore key agreements governing what role there might be there for US military and its counterterrorism operations, Pentagon said Thursday, Apr 25.
Student protesters doubled down early Thursday, Apr 25, on their discontent of Israel-Hamas war on campuses across US as universities, including ones in California and Texas, have resorted to police action to end demonstrations.
China on Wednesday, Apr 24, blasted the latest package of U.S. military assistance to Taiwan on Wednesday, saying that such funding was pushing the self-governing island republic into a “dangerous situation.”
India's main opposition party Congress accused PM Narendra Modi of using hate speech after he called Muslims “infiltrators" — some of his most incendiary rhetoric, days after country began its weekslong general election.