The seat for Myanmar delegation remains empty before the 26th ASEAN-China Summit at the 43rd ASEAN Summit in Jakarta on September 6, 2023. (Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / POOL / AFP) YANGON, Myanmar -- Myanmar's junta on Wednesday criticised an ASEAN statement condemning military violence and the...
A man (L), whom local media have named as 24-year-old Ryuji Kimura, who is believed to have thrown an explosive toward Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, leaves Wakayama Nishi Police Station in Wakayama on April 17, 2023. (Photo by JIJI PRESS / AFP) TOKYO, Japan -- A man accused of throwing a...
Indian artist Jagjot Singh Rubal gives final touches to an oil painting of US President Joe Biden, at his workshop in Amritsar on September 5, 2023, ahead of the two-day G20 summit in New Delhi. (Photo by Narinder NANU / AFP) NEW DELHI, India -- US President Joe Biden heads to India for the G20...
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (C) attends the celebration of Amazon Day at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia on September 5, 2023. Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced the demarcation of two new indigenous reserves, considered major barriers to deforestation,...
This handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service on August 24, 2023, shows Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (C,R) and his wife Olena Zelenska attending a religious service at Saint Sophia cathedral during Ukraine's Independence Day celebrations in Kyiv....
This picture taken on July 27, 2022 and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on July 28, 2022 shows weapons being paraded at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang to mark a key anniversary of the Korean War. (Photo by KCNA VIA KNS / AFP) WASHINGTON, United States -- The...
Women wear Abayas as they walk in an underpass in Nantes, western France on August 31, 2023. The French government's decision to ban schoolgirls wearing abayas -- long, flowing dresses of Middle Eastern origin -- has opened a fresh debate about the country's secular laws and the treatment of Muslim...
TOPSHOT - (L-R) Philippine’s President Ferdinand Marcos, Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Thailand's Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sarun Charoensuwan, Vietnam's Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo, Laos’ Prime Minister Sonexay...
NEW YORK, United States -- Oil prices jumped Tuesday after Russia and Saudi Arabia extended cuts to supplies, while global equities mostly retreated and the dollar gained. The price of the main international oil contract, Brent crude, hit $90 per barrel for the first time this year, following...
US President Joe Biden presents US Army Captain Larry Taylor (L) with the Medal of Honor during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on September 5, 2023. Taylor, a former Army helicopter pilot, is being awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Vietnam War...
Nayib Hassan an attorney for Enrique Tarrio speaks to the press outside the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse in Washington, DC on September 5, 2023. Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the far-right Proud Boys militia, is to be sentenced on September 5, 2023, for his role in the attack on the US...
Russian mercenary organization -- The Wagner Group (Photo from AFP) LONDON, United Kingdom -- Britain is to ban Russian mercenary outfit the Wagner Group as a terrorist organisation, media reports said on Tuesday, quoting Home Secretary Suella Braverman. The UK was set to make the Wagner Group a...
