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The de facto U.S. The embassy in Taiwan said on Thursday that Chinese military activity in the region is currently elevated, but it did not see that wider activity as a response to President Lai Ching-te's recent U.S. -visit. Lai, who…

Two famous real estate brokers and their brother have been charged with sex trafficking in a case involving the alleged drugging, assaulting, and raping of dozens of women over more than a decade. Prosecutors say Tal and Oren Alexander,…

Embattled South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has defended his shock decision to declare martial law last week, saying he did it to protect the country's democracy. In a surprise televised address on Thursday, he said the attempt was a…

The rate of medical assistance in dying - also known as euthanasia - has grown in Canada for the fifth straight year, albeit at a slower pace. The country released its fifth annual report since legalising assisted dying in 2016, which,…

Syrian rebel forces have said they plan to close the notoriously harsh prisons run by ousted president Bashar al-Assad and hunt those involved in the killing or torture of detainees. Rebel leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, also known as Abu…

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Tuesday it had detained a dual Russian-German citizen on suspicion of preparing an act of sabotage on a railroad in Nizhny Novgorod, a city some 280 miles (450 km) east of Moscow. The FSB…

China is deploying its largest navy fleet in regional waters in nearly three decades, posing a threat to Taiwan that is more pronounced than previous Chinese war games, the Taiwanese defence ministry said on Tuesday. Speaking in Taipei,…

Syrian fighters who toppled President Bashar al-Assad have appointed Mohammed al-Bashir as the country’s caretaker prime minister. Al-Bashir, who headed the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham-led de facto government in Idlib province, will lead a…

Middle Eastern nations including Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan and Qatar have condemned Israel’s seizure of the buffer zone that separates the occupied Golan heights from the rest of Syria and accused it of taking advantage of the…

The collapse of the Assad regime has prompted a punishing military response from Israel, which has launched airstrikes across Syria and deployed ground troops both into and beyond a demilitarized buffer zone established in 1974. A Syrian…