Bangkok:  US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has urged leaders of major economies to work more closely in countering the impact from Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Yellen and other top financial...

Beijing: The US Navy on Wednesday sailed a destroyer close to China-controlled islands in the South China Sea in what Washington said was a patrol aimed at asserting freedom of...

London: The race to replace Boris Johnson as the Conservative Party leader and British Prime Minister may have just officially begun but it has already made history for its diverse...

Mina (Saudi Arabia): Millions of Muslims across the globe — including in countries like Afghanistan, Libya, Egypt, Kenya and Yemen — were celebrating Eid al-Adha on Saturday, one of the...

Mount Arafat (Saudi Arab):  Hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims from around the world raised their hands to heaven and offered prayers of repentance on the sacred hill of Mount...

Kuala Lumpur:  Friday's shocking assassination of Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in one of the world's safest countries stunned leaders and drew condemnation, with Iran calling it an “act...

Tokyo:  Shinzo Abe, a divisive archconservative who was Japan's longest-serving prime minister and remained a powerful and influential politician after leaving office, has died after being shot during a campaign...

Jakarta: Foreign ministers from the Group of 20 leading rich and developing nations are gathering in Indonesia's resort island of Bali for talks bound to be dominated by the conflict...

Beijing:  The United States is "the biggest threat to world peace, stability and development," China said on Thursday, continuing its sharp rhetoric in response to US accusations of Chinese spying...

Mecca:  One million Muslim pilgrims were converging on Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca on Wednesday for the largest hajj since the coronavirus pandemic severely curtailed access to one of...