ATHENS - Top US diplomat Marco Rubio was in Athens on Wednesday ahead of a "strategic dialogue" with the NATO member on regional and energy security, the State Department said.

PARIS (FRANCE) - France has suspended the use of stun grenades by police at student-led demonstrations, the interior minister said Wednesday, as allegations of police brutality mounted after days of sometimes violent demonstrations across the country...

SINGAPORE - The global economy is under threat from ‌persistently high energy prices, record public debt and risks from the AI investment boom, International Monetary Fund managing director Kristalina Georgieva warned on Wednesday, urging govern...

TAIPEI - Hundreds of workers at a Micron Technology plant in Taiwan have voted to strike, their union said Wednesday, after talks with the US memory chip giant over bonus reforms collapsed.

Former abbot Alongkot Phoolmuk and his aide have been sentenced to hundreds of years in prison for embezzling funds donated to the Aids hospice at Wat Phrabat Namphu in Lop Buri, and ordered to return over 300 million baht to the temple.

Former abbot Alongkot Phoolmuk and his aide have been sentenced to hundreds of years in prison for embezzling funds donated to the Aids hospice at Wat Phrabat Namphu in Lop Buri, and ordered to return over 300 million baht to the temple.

Fifteen minutes with a pair of clippers, a mirror check, and out the door for the price of a sandwich. Or: lying back on a reclined chair, eyes covered, a hot towel over the face, a straight razor worked slowly along the jaw, warm oil worked into the...

The government on Wednesday warned of possible flooding in western provinces with forecasts of heavy rain, while explaining high tides are impeding drainage of flood waters from eastern provinces Chachoengsao and Prachin Buri.

Thailand is bracing for persistently high energy prices through the end of the cool season as state subsidies reach their fiscal limits, underscoring the need for urgent energy conservation measures, according to the Energy Policy and Planning Office...

The government remains committed to introducing the 450-baht tourism tax in the first quarter next year despite calls from the private sector to delay the scheme due to ongoing flooding, with officials citing an online public hearing in which 80.5% s...