投稿者: Associated Press
Pod of orcas in north Japan freed themselves as gaps between the ice grew, officials sayA pod of killer whales trapped by drift ice off the coast of Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost main island, have apparently safely escaped, officials have said.The orc…
Pod of orcas in north Japan freed themselves as gaps between the ice grew, officials sayA pod of killer whales trapped by drift ice off the coast of Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost main island, have apparently safely escaped, officials have said.The orc…
Boy sent to mental health facility after Bae Hyun-jin left with cuts to her head from attack in SeoulA 14-year-old boy who attacked a South Korean lawmaker with a rock has been sent to a mental health facility, police have said, as they continued to in…
Number of missing lowered to 211 as thousands of troops join rescue effort and experts warn of disease risk at evacuation centresThe death toll from a major earthquake in western Japan reached 100 on Saturday as rescue workers fought aftershocks to car…
Intense speculation over future role for Kim Jong-un’s daughter, who is reportedly 10, comes as North Korea fires shells near South Korean islandsThe young daughter of North Korean ruler Kim Jong-un is seen as her father’s heir apparent, South Korea’s …
Japan’s government has called a meeting of its national security council in response to the launchesNorth Korea has fired two ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast, according to the South Korean military.The South Korean military said in a…
Chinese president signalled that the pandas would be sent after his first face-to-face meeting with Joe Biden in 12 monthsBiden hails progress after Xi talks but Taiwan still the sticking pointChinese president Xi Jinping signalled on Wednesday evening…
The Democratic party, the city’s largest pro-democracy party, failed to secure enough nominations under new rules introduced by authoritiesHong Kong’s leader has defended the rules for upcoming local elections as open and fair, even though an electoral…
The opposition is demanding the resignation of prime minister Sheikh Hasina and the transfer of power to a non-partisan caretaker governmentAuthorities in Bangladesh have arrested a key opposition figure from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and sent h…
Pentagon report also says Beijing is intensifying pressure on neighbours to push back on US efforts to contain itA Pentagon report on China’s military power says Beijing is exceeding previous projections of how quickly it is building up its nuclear wea…
Authorities say thousands of people dispatched by North Korea to work for US companies fed millions of dollars to missile programThousands of information technology workers contracting with US companies have for years secretly sent millions of dollars …
Another 6.3-magnitude quake strikes outside Herat in western area where thousands were killed last weekA powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake has struck western Afghanistan, just over a week after strong quakes and aftershocks killed thousands of people a…
Armenian government says 100,000 people have fled since Azerbaijan took control of breakaway regionAlmost all ethnic Armenians have left Nagorno-Karabakh since Azerbaijan attacked and ordered the breakaway region’s militants to disarm, the Armenian gov…
Medical centres in Stepanakert at capacity after explosion, the cause of which remains unknown Dozens of people are feared dead and hundreds more injured after a powerful explosion at a fuel storage depot in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, as thousands of…
Sentencing of Sai Zaw Thaike at one-day trial for treason and defamation shows press freedom has been ‘completely quashed’ under junta, editor saysA Myanmar court has sentenced a photojournalist to 20 years in prison with hard labour over his coverage…