Residents of Indonesia's Aceh province in the northern tip of Sumatra Island paid tribute on Thursday to relatives, family members, and friends who lost their lives during the tsunami on Dec. 26, 2004 ...

At least 10,457 migrants died or disappeared while trying to reach Spain by sea in 2024, an NGO said Thursday, more than 50 percent more than last year and the most since it began keeping a tally in ...

Thailand has notified Russia, the current chair of the BRICS group, of its acceptance to be a partner country, Thai Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nikorndej Balankura said on Thursday.

India announced seven days of state mourning on Friday after the death of former prime minister Manmohan Singh, one of the architects of the country's economic liberalisation in the early 1990s.

From tiny and impoverished Mayotte to oil-rich behemoth Saudi Arabia, prosperous European cities to overcrowded slums in Africa, nowhere was spared the devastating impact of supercharged climate ...

Peru has declared an "environmental emergency" after an oil spill that triggered a clean-up operation on a stretch of northern coastline ...

Authorities in Brazil said the risk of acid pollution from a bridge collapse in the country's north has been contained, as they raised the death toll ...

Japan's government approved a record budget for the next fiscal year, ramping up spending on social welfare, as the population ages ...

The ports along the trunk stream of the Yangtze River, China's largest and the world's third-longest river, are expected to handle a record 4.02 bln ton ...

Australian firefighters said they were fighting to control a bushfire racing through a national park that has consumed an area the size of Singapore ...

South Korea's spy agency said it had confirmed that a North Korean soldier sent to back Russia's war against Ukraine had been captured by Ukrainian forces ...

Manmohan Singh, the former Indian prime minister whose economic reforms made his country a global powerhouse, has died at the age of 92.