WASHINGTON - Most employees at USAID will be placed on leave or fired by midnight on Sunday, the aid agency said, as President Donald Trump's administration plows ahead in slashing government spending.

DUISBURG, Germany - Sporting a cap with the Trump-inspired slogan "Make Duisburg Great Again", AfD candidate Alan Imamura was upbeat as he campaigned for the far-right party in Germany's ailing industrial heartland.

On Thursday, 200 Chinese nationals rescued from online scam centres in Myanmar were repatriated to China, while hundreds more are expected to arrive in China in the coming days, according to Beijing's Ministry of Public Security.

JOHANNESBURG – Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya called for enhanced cooperation between Japan and emerging and developing countries from the Global South at a Group of 20 foreign ministers meeting in Johannesburg on Thursday and Friday.

HO CHI MINH – General Secretary of the Communist Party of Việt Nam (CPV) Central Committee Tô Lâm held a high-level meeting with President of the Cambodian People’s Party and President of the Cambodian Senate Hun Sen, and General Secretary...

TOKYO – Since Russia and North Korea signed their mutual defense treaty in June last year, the number of missiles fired by the Russian military against Ukraine that are believed to have been made in North Korea has increased sharply. Moscow...

DUBAI - Inspired by LeBron James and Roger Federer, Russian 17-year-old Mirra Andreeva wrapped up a fairytale week in Dubai by becoming the youngest ever WTA 1000 champion with victory over Clara Tauson on Saturday.

Chon Buri: Angel Yin produced a 'moving day' masterclass to surge clear at the top of the leaderboard after three rounds of the 2025 Honda LPGA Thailand in Pattaya yesterday.

Hosts Nakhon Ratchasima fought back from a two-goal deficit to claim a point from their Thai League 1 clash with Sukhothai on Friday night.

BERLIN - A Syrian man arrested after a stabbing attack at Berlin’s Holocaust memorial that seriously wounded a Spanish man had been harbouring a “plan to kill Jews”, police and prosecutors said on Saturday.