WASHINGTON, United States -- Long viewed as the most formidable challenger to Donald Trump in the Republican US presidential nominating contest, Ron DeSantis boasts a record of ultra-conservative legislative wins and a pile of campaign cash. Yet the self-styled tip of the spear in what he says is...
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The liberal frontrunner to become Thailand's next prime minister said Saturday he would withdraw his candidacy if parliament did not endorse him next week, after military-appointed lawmakers foiled his first attempt. Pita Limjaroenrat's Move Forward Party (MFP) won the most...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- The United Arab Emirates and India vowed on Saturday to make this year's COP28 conference in Dubai a success, as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid a visit to the Gulf state. The oil-rich UAE will host the COP28 United Nations climate talks in November and...
KYIV, Ukraine -- South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol pledged Saturday to "expand the scale" of his country's humanitarian and non-lethal military assistance to Ukraine, in his first visit to the war-torn country. The world's ninth-largest arms exporter, South Korea has a long-standing policy to...
MADRID, Spain -- A wildfire on the Spanish island of La Palma has blazed around 4,500 hectares of land, making thousands of people evacuated, local emergency services said on Saturday. The fire, which broke out early morning on Saturday, has burnt the area close to the municipality of Puntagorda on...
JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was sent to hospital on Saturday after he complained of dizziness, his office said. Netanyahu, 73, is "in good condition and is undergoing a medical examination," according to a statement released by his office. "The initial assessment is...
BEIJING, China - China's top diplomat urged India to focus on "common interests" and meet China "halfway" to defuse border tensions between Asia's most populous neighbours, the Chinese foreign ministry said Saturday. Relations between India and China have deteriorated in recent months over their...
ROME, Italy - Strikes by airport and airline staff grounded hundreds of flights and left thousands of travellers stranded in Europe on Saturday at the height of the busy summer tourism season. In Italy, some 1,000 flights, both domestic and international, were cancelled as a result of the strike...
CHEONGJU, South Korea -- Rescuers battled on Sunday to reach people trapped in a flooded tunnel in South Korea, where at least 37 people have died and nine are missing after heavy rains caused flooding and landslides. South Korea is at the peak of its summer monsoon season, and there has...
ROME, Italy -- Tens of millions of people were battling dangerously high temperatures around the world on Sunday as record heat forecasts hung over parts of the United States, Europe and Asia, in the latest example of the threat from global warming. A powerful heatwave stretching from California to...
KYIV, Ukraine - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday thanked his South Korean counterpart Yoon Suk Yeol for a substantial first visit to his war-torn country. "Today, during this first visit of the President of the Republic of Korea to Ukraine in the history of our relations, we...
A 51-year-old Filipina was found dead in a pier in Hong Kong on Thursday, July 14, Hong Kong authorities said. A concerned citizen discovered the cadaver of a woman in a corner of Tsing Yi Public Pier at around 6:37 a.m. Hong Kong firefighters immediately responded to the scene where they recovered...
