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.

KUALA LUMPUR - Myanmar's leader landed for his first visit to Malaysia on Wednesday, since taking power in a 2021 coup, as Kuala Lumpur seeks his cooperation to return thousands of migrants.

Thailand's industrial ​sector has suffered ​damages worth ‌an estimated 6 billion baht (US$178 million) from floods that have swept ​through

TOKYO - US forces on Okinawa were on Wednesday barred from drinking alcohol for 48 hours and also face a 30-day curfew after the murder of a woman allegedly committed by an American Marine.

RE'IM — Israel marked the third anniversary of Hamas's attack on Oct 7 on Wednesday with silent tributes, new strikes on Gaza and intense political debate, weeks before elections in which the country's deadliest day will be front and centre.

Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has admonished Prachin Buri's Ban Sang district chief who was abruptly transferred on Wednesday after being accused of resisting cooperation and not making a sufficient effort to help flood victims in the province.