An earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale shook the Philippine island of Luzon on Monday, the German Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake occurred at a depth of…
The South Korean government said on Monday it plans to conduct a safety inspection of all Boeing 737-800 aircraft operated by domestic airlines in the wake of the Jeju Air…
Croatia’s election commission announced on Sunday that outgoing president Zoran Milanovic had failed to win the first round of voting and would face the ruling conservative party’s candidate Dragan Primorac…
Former US President Jimmy Carter died on Sunday at the age of 100. The Carter Centre said in a statement that Carter ‘died at his home in Plains, Georgia’ after…
Mikheil Kavalashvili (53) has been sworn in as the new President of Georgia, succeeding outgoing President Salome Zurabishvili. Kavalashvili became President of Georgia for a 5-year term after winning 224…
The world’s longest motorway tunnel, the Tianshan Shengli Tunnel, was completed on Monday morning in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur, paving the way for the opening of a new motorway linking…
French army and foreign ministers Sébastien Locorno and Jean-Noël Barrot will visit Lebanon from Monday to Wednesday to meet French soldiers in the UN Interim Force (UNIFIL) on New Year’s…
President-elect Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to delay the implementation of a law banning the Chinese social media platform TikTok in the United States. Trump’s lawyer, John Sawyer,…
South Korea’s Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok took over as acting president after the National Assembly impeached interim President Han Duk-soo in a plenary session on Friday.…
An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale struck the Philippine island of Mindanao today. The German Geosciences Research Centre said in a statement that the epicentre of the earthquake…