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Nine people are facing charges in what authorities are calling the biggest gold theft in Canadian history; Indonesia issues tsunami warning; Cordlife board lodges police report over ‘potential wrongdo...

18 Apr 20242min

The United Nations human rights office has called on Israel to halt its support of attacks by West Bank settlers; Sri Lanka has rejected an international bondholders' proposal and in Singapore employe...

17 Apr 20242min

Jury selection begins in criminal trial for ex-US president Donald Trump in New York City; Pakistan declares state of emergency in the southwest of the country as torrential rains continue to batter t...

16 Apr 20242min

Iran has warned Israel and the United States, of a much larger response if there is any retaliation. In Asia at least 14 people have been killed in landslides on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and ...

15 Apr 20242min

In world news President Joe Biden, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, expected to announce a joint coast guard exercise. Russian opposition politician ...

12 Apr 20242min

The United States and Japan have announced a joint partnership to accelerate development and commercialization of nuclear fusion. Exit polls in South Korea showed the main opposition party and its all...

11 Apr 20242min

Iran’s foreign minister has accused the United States of giving Israel the “green light” for a strike on its consulate building in Syria, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has said, that the Biden admin...

9 Apr 20242min

The idea that in shiny and successful Singapore, there might be citizens living in a cycle of poverty would seem preposterous to some. And yet the island does have low-income families struggling to su...

25 Mar 202418min