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On the craggy rocks on northwestern Spain's treacherous Costa da Morte (Death Coast), wetsuit-clad fishermen dodge crashing waves as they pick barnacles, a prized Christmas delicacy facing decline due...

BANGKOK: Three people, from the United States, Brazil and Ukraine, were killed after a fire broke out at a hotel near Bangkok's popular backpacker district on Sunday night, authorities said, with...

A South Korean Jeju Air passenger jet crashed on landing at Muan International Airport on Sunday, killing 179 people in the country's deadliest air disaster.The following are the final minutes of...

Seoul: Both black boxes — the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder — for Jeju Air flight 2216 have been found, a transport official said on Sunday, after the Boeing 737-800 crashed...

Inflation dropped in most economies around the world in 2024, but voters didn’t care.Angered by the hefty ramp-up in prices for everything from eggs to energy over the past few years, they punished...

China has approved the construction of what will be the world's largest hydropower dam, kicking off an ambitious project on the eastern rim of the Tibetan plateau that could affect millions downstream...

Israeli troops forced the evacuation of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza and many patients, some of them on foot, arrived at another hospital miles away in Gaza City, the territory's health...

TOKYO - Japanese auto giants Honda and Nissan said Monday they aim to list a new holding company in August 2026 as the pair announced they are entering talks on a merger. "Shares of the newly...

TikTok must now move quickly with a request to the Supreme Court to block or overturn a law that would require its Chinese parent ByteDance to divest of the short-video app by Jan. 19 after an appeals...

A defiant South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol faces a second impeachment vote on Saturday over his short-lived attempt to impose martial law, a move that shocked the country, split his party, and...

Workers in some of the world's biggest garment manufacturing hubs in Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Pakistan are increasingly exposed to extreme heat as climate change pushes temperatures up, a report found...

An earthquake measuring magnitude 5.7 struck Western Iran on Thursday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) reported.The quake struck Iran's Khuzestan Province injuring at least 15 people...

SEOUL: South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday declared martial law, accusing the opposition of being "anti-state forces" and saying he was acting to protect the country from "threats" posed...

Lawmakers in Britain voted Friday in favor of a proposal to legalize assisted dying for some terminally ill patients in England and Wales. The 330-275 vote in the House of Commons was not the final...

Israel has agreed a ceasefire with Lebanon, Israel's Channel 12 television reported on Tuesday, clearing the way for an end to a conflict between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah that has killed...

A powerful Israeli airstrike targeted central Beirut on Saturday, security sources said, shaking the Lebanese capital as Israel pressed its offensive against the Hezbollah group.At least four people...

SYDNEY: Australia's centre-left government on Thursday introduced a bill in parliament that aims to ban social media for children under 16 and proposed fines of up to A$49.5 million ($32 million) for...

REYKJAVIK: A volcano near Iceland's capital erupted late on Wednesday for the tenth time in three years, spewing fountains of lava and smoke, the country's meteorological office said, but there were...

NAIROBI: Kenyan President William Ruto said on Thursday he had ordered the cancellation of a procurement process that had been expected to award control of the country's main airport to India's Adani...

A Southwest Airlines plane preparing for departure at Dallas Love Field airport was struck by a bullet late on Friday, prompting the aircraft to return to the gate, the airline said in a...