Asia Pacific
Qatar prime minister, Taliban chief hold secret Afghan talks
The Qatari prime minister held secret talks with the supreme leader of the Taliban this month on resolving tension with ...Japan puts missile defence on alert as North Korea warns of satellite launch
Japan put its ballistic missile defences on alert on Monday and warned that it would shoot down any projectile that ...Separatists in Indonesia’s Papua threaten to shoot NZ hostage if denied talks
Rebels in Indonesia’s Papua region threatened to shoot a New Zealand pilot they took hostage in February if countries do ...Indonesia, Iran sign preferential trade agreement
The leaders of Indonesia and Iran on Tuesday signed a preferential trade agreement to expand economic relations during an official ...G7 offers Ukraine long-term support, Zelenskiy laments Bakhmut ‘tragedy’
Leaders of the world’s richest democracies said on Sunday they would not back down from supporting Ukraine, in a warning ...Zelenskiy joins Japan G7 as democracies take aim at Russia and China
Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy brought his call for support against Russia’s invasion to a Group of Seven (G7) summit on Saturday ...Ukraine casts shadow over Hiroshima meeting
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will attend the Group of Seven (G7) Hiroshima summit this weekend, Ukrainian and Western officials said, ...More than half of the world’s large lakes are drying up, study finds
More than half of the world’s large lakes and reservoirs have shrunk since the early 1990s, chiefly because of climate ...Powerful storm snaps communications network in Myanmar’s Rakhine
One of the strongest storms to hit Myanmar in recent years severely disrupted communications in the impoverished state of Rakhine, ...Powerful cyclone barrels towards Myanmar, Bangladesh; 400,000 evacuated
A powerful storm closed in on the coasts of Bangladesh and Myanmar on Sunday, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of ...