Southeast Asia's fastest train route was officially opened in Indonesia on Monday. The key project under China's Belt and Road initiative connects Indonesia's capital Jakarta to Bandung, the heavily populated capital of West Java province.  The project was largely

Former President Donald Trump has attacked a judge and prosecutor in a day of courtroom drama as he attended the opening of a fraud trial that could threaten his business empire. On entering the room on Monday dressed in a blue suit, Mr Trump - who turned up voluntarily - looked ahead

US House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy is fighting for his political life after a right-wing rebel filed a rarely used motion to oust him. Responding to Matt Gaetz's move, Mr McCarthy posted on social media: "Bring it on." Mr Gaetz retorted: "Just

The United Nations Security Council approved on Monday deploying a multinational force to Haiti, where authorities have been struggling for nearly a year to control criminal gangs. The force was described as a Multinational Security Support mission "to take all necessary

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine-2023 was awarded jointly to Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman “for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19”. Dr Katalin Kariko and Dr Drew

At least 10 migrants have been killed and 25 others injured after a cargo truck clandestinely carrying them overturned on a highway in southern Mexico. The accident took place early on Sunday in the Mexican state of Chiapas near the border with Guatemala. A source in the

At least 13 people have died in a fire that engulfed three nightclubs in the south-eastern Spanish city of Murcia. The blaze broke out in the Fonda Milagros nightclub - known as La Fonda - early on Sunday morning. It then spread to neighbouring clubs as patrons rushed to escape the

Britain's biggest defence firm, BAE Systems, has won a £3.95bn ($4.82bn) contract to build a new generation of submarines as the security pact between the US, UK and Australia moves ahead. In March, the three countries announced details of the so-called Aukus pact to provide

President Joe Biden has vowed continued US support for Ukraine, after further military funding was excluded from a last-minute congressional budget deal. The temporary measure, pushed through to avert a government shutdown, did not include $6bn (£4.92bn) in military aid for Kyiv

Seven people are reported to have been killed and some 20 others trapped after a church roof collapsed in Mexico. Local media said 49 people were taken to hospital, after the roof of Ciudad Madero's Santa Cruz church fell in. Police in the coastal state of Tamaulipas said around

The SMER-SSD party of former Prime Minister Robert Fico has won Slovakia’s parliamentary election after criticising the European Union as well as NATO and promising to stop military aid to Ukraine. With 99.2 percent of votes from some 6,000 polling stations counted by the Slovak

The government of Britain will be deploying military instructors to Ukraine, along with providing training to Ukrainian armed forces present in Britain or other Western countries, said British defence minister Grant Shapps, in a newspaper interview. To date, Britain and its allies

Afghanistan's Embassy in India on Sunday ceased operations. New Delhi does not recognize Afghanistan's Taliban rulers, who took power in 2021. India had allowed the Afghan Embassy to continue operating under the ambassador and mission staff appointed by ousted President

An ethnic Armenian exodus has nearly emptied Nagorno-Karabakh of residents since Azerbaijan attacked and ordered the breakaway region’s fighter groups to disarm, the Armenian government has said. Nazeli Baghdasaryan, the press secretary to Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan,

The US government has avoided a federal shutdown after both House and Senate agreed on a short-term funding deal. A bill that keeps the government funded until mid-November but includes no new aid for Ukraine was approved in the Senate by 88 votes to nine. The 45-day resolution was

A pro-China candidate has won presidential elections in the Maldives, defeating an incumbent who had strengthened relations with India. President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih accepted defeat in the run-off poll, congratulating his rival Mohamed Muizzu who won 54% of the vote. Mr Muizzu,

The UN Security Council on Friday strongly condemned what it described as an “egregious and escalatory drone attack,” by the Houthis on Bahraini soldiers serving in the Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen, in which three servicemen were killed and several injured. It

The United States is going to impose visa restrictions on approximately 100 Nicaraguan municipal officials for their role in alleged attacks on human rights. In an official statement, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken came up with the announcement on Friday. This move is part

The Maldives began voting to decide their next president in a referendum on whether to hitch their fortunes to China or India, both vying for influence in the tropical paradise. Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, 61, faces an uphill battle to secure a second mandate after a term that saw renewed

A man in the US has been charged with leaking the tax returns of a "high-ranking government official" who is understood to be Donald Trump. Prosecutors said Charles Littlejohn, a contractor for the IRS - the US-wide tax body - stole the information and passed it on to a news