On September 15, 2025, the location transmitter of an Iranian oil tanker called Reef pinged near Iraq’s offshore Basrah Oil Terminal. Reef was actually several hundred kilometers away at the Iranian ...

Foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) at their annual retreat in Cebu, Philippines, Jan. 28, 2026. Credit: Facebook/ASEAN 2026 PH Southeast Asia’s top diplomats met ...

Beijing has stepped up cooperation with south-east Asian nations to crack down on the multibillion-dollar industry China on Thursday executed 11 people linked to Myanmar criminal gangs, including “key ...

Myanmar Holds Its Last Election Round With the Army Already Certain to Keep Control Over Government YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Voting was held Sunday in Myanmar in the final round of a three-stage general ...

, a party source told AFP on Jan 26, after a month-long vote that democracy watchdogs dismissed as a rebranding of army rule. The military snatched power in a 2021 coup, ending Myanmar’s experiment ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) - A federal judge ordered, opens new tab President Donald Trump's administration on Friday to delay its termination of the "Temporary Protected Status," or TPS, for ...

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Polls in Myanmar have closed after a third and final stage of voting in what are widely viewed as sham elections. Many popular parties are banned from standing and voting has not been possible in ...

When Dr Ronan Lee spoke to members of the Rohingya community, he heard "blood-curdling accounts" of killings and sexual violence allegedly carried out by Myanmar's security forces. They described how ...

Officials of the Union Election Commission work during the second phase of the general election at a polling station in Yangon, Myanmar, on Jan. 11, 2026. Officials of the Union Election Commission ...