Asia Pacific

South China Sea drills: US, Australian and Philippine forces sink a ship

World
David Turner

LAOAG, Philippines (AP) — U.S. and Philippine forces, backed by an Australian air force surveillance aircraft, unleashed a barrage of high-precision rockets, ...

Chinese leader Xi visits the French Pyrenees in a personal gesture by Macron

World
David Turner

TOURMALET PASS, France (AP) — France’s president hosted China’s leader at a remote mountain pass in the Pyrenees on Tuesday for private ...

May Day 2024: Workers and activists call for greater labor rights

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Sarah Wilson

ISTANBUL (AP) — Workers and activists around the world marked May Day with largely peaceful protests Wednesday over rising prices, low wages ...

Lok Sabha election 2024: India votes in phase 2 as PM Modi pushes BJP’s pro-Hindu line

World
David Turner

NEW DELHI (AP) — Millions of Indians voted Friday in a moderate turnout in the second round of multi-phase national elections as ...

US House approves aid package worth billions for Ukraine, Israel | Politics News

World
David Turner

The Democratic-majority Senate is expected to vote on the bill next week, sending it to President Joe Biden to sign into law. ...

Lok Sabha election 2024: India begins voting in mammoth polls

World
David Turner

NEW DELHI (AP) — Millions of Indians began voting Friday in a six-week election that’s a referendum on Narendra Modi, the populist ...

Police in Australia identify the Sydney stabbing attacker who killed 6 people

World
David Turner

SYDNEY (AP) — Police have identified the assailant who stabbed six people to death at a busy Sydney shopping center before he ...

US, Japan, Australia and the Philippines will stage drills in South China Sea

World
David Turner

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The United States, Japan, Australia and the Philippines will hold their first joint naval exercises, including anti-submarine warfare ...

Hong Kong: Law giving government more power to curb dissent passed

World
David Turner

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong lawmakers unanimously approved a new national security law Tuesday that grants the government more power to ...

North Korea resume missile test days after South Korea, US end military drills

U.S.
Amanda Smith

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters Monday morning, its neighbors said, days ...