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Authorities issued a “final alert” to evacuate on Saturday as record-high floods rose quickly. Rescuers used a helicopter to fly residents out of a remote Australian town. Police in Burketown, a small

The Japanese Justice Ministry panel has suggested raising the consent age from 13 to 16. It is a part of a larger revision to Japan’s sex crime laws following a wave of

The Taliban-run government in Afghanistan claims to be converting some former foreign military installations into business-friendly economic zones. Since the Taliban regained control of the nation in August 2021, Afghanistan has experienced

As Seoul seeks to forge closer ties with Tokyo, US top diplomat Antony Blinken praised plans unveiled by South Korea on Sunday to compensate victims of Japan’s forced labor during World War

As part of an effort to have 10% of the population using green vehicles by next year, Indonesia will provide incentives to persuade 200,000 people to switch to electric motorbikes. In addition

The national security police of Hong Kong detained one of the city’s most well-known rights activists on Tuesday for allegedly tampering with witnesses, a police source told AFP. Albert Ho, 71, was

India’s anti-money laundering agency, the Enforcement Directorate (ED), has conducted searches at the offices of Byju’s, one of the country’s leading edtech firms. The searches, which took place in multiple locations across

At least 14 people were killed and dozens more were hurt when a large fire at a fuel storage depot in the capital of Indonesia on Friday forced the evacuation of thousands

Three former Tiananmen Square vigil organizers in Hong Kong were given four and a half months in prison on Saturday for refusing to turn over records to the national security police. Hong

In the disputed South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait, where Washington has repeatedly warned China over its increasingly aggressive actions, American and Filipino forces on Tuesday launched their largest combat drills

Hun Sen, the long-serving prime minister of Cambodia, made a strong suggestion on Tuesday that he intends to step down when a new administration is put in place following the general election