A British former war correspondent and an Australian man have faced court in Indonesia on charges of possessing hashish.
US President-elect Donald Trump will name former Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue as his nominee for secretary of agriculture on Thursday (Jan 19), Fox News reported on Wednesday.
Law enforcement officials are in the final stages of sealing off a heavily fortified security zone encompassing the Capitol and the historic National Mall here as they prepare for the inauguration on Friday (Jan 20) and the substantial protests it is expected to attract.
A house on a leafy New York City street where United States (US) President-elect Donald Trump lived as a toddler is being auctioned off by a fellow real estate investor who bought it just last month.
The European Parliament elects a new president on Tuesday (Jan 17) in a vote that promises to be stormy after a coalition aimed at keeping eurosceptics out of power broke down.
President-elect Donald Trump yesterday tapped former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani to advise his incoming administration on cyber security, following an outcry over Russian hackers' apparent attempt to meddle in the US election.
UN Secretary- General Antonio Guterres has called for a "whole new approach" to prevent war, vowing to boost the world body's mediation capacity to tackle global conflicts.
An officer who works with the Malacca Chief Minister and a Johor land officer were the latest targets of anti-corruption officials in Malaysia, in what some see as a crackdown on graft linked to an impending general election.
Former president Megawati Sukarnoputri came out strongly against anti-pluralist voices yesterday, saying they have no place in a democratic Indonesia.
Prosecutors have charged relatives of former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon with conspiracy to bribe a government official.
President Obama delivered a nostalgic and hopeful farewell address to the nation on Tuesday evening, but warned both the divided country he led for eight years and his successor not to shrink from the challenges of economic inequality, racial strife, political isolation and voter apathy that still threaten its ideal of democracy.
President Barack Obama closes the book on his presidency on Tuesday US time (Wednesday Jan 11, Singapore time), with a farewell speech in Chicago that will try to lift supporters felled by Mr Donald Trump's shock victory.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) rebuffed requests by federal agents to inspect computer servers that had been breached last year during the presidential campaign, forcing them to rely on third-party cyber security data to investigate the hack, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said.
The Philippines is taking the right steps in diversifying its alliances, Russia's ambassador to Manila said yesterday as he pushed for defence cooperation, short of a military alliance, between the two countries.
The United States will transfer four detainees to Saudi Arabia from the Guantanamo prison in the next 24 hours, a US official said on Wednesday (Jan 4), in President Barack Obama's final push to shrink the inmate population despite pressure from President-elect Donald Trump to halt such releases.
Wall Street lawyer Jay Clayton, who has worked on high-profile initial public offerings such as Alibaba Group, is a leading candidate to head the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the Trump administration, two sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday (Jan 3).
US President Barack Obama will make a short but politically charged trip from the White House to Capitol Hill on Wednesday (Jan 4), calling allied lawmakers to arms in defence of his signature healthcare reforms.
简体中文
