World Politics

A senior US administration official says both sides have agreed on the text of a memorandum of understanding, adding that Washington expects to sign an initial deal in the coming days.

The protest followed the arrests of dozens of women for alleged dress code violation in the Afghan city of Herat.

Princess Bajrakitiyabha Narendira Debyavati, who had spent the past three and a half years in a coma due to a heart condition, is being remembered for her efforts to improve the livelihoods of female prisoners and her diplomatic career.

When Jolie Cao chose to do her undergraduate university degree in Australia, she knew it would be expensive. But an additional financial pressure has made things "really hard".

Defence Minister Richard Marles's visit to the United Kingdom has been thrown into chaos after his British counterpart John Healey resigned hours before they were due to speak.

The men were accused of carrying out the attack on the popular Erawan Shrine that killed 20 people, many of whom were Chinese tourists.

Prime Minister Matthew Wale says it is legally impossible to publish the final document because the Sogavare government made binding commitments to the Chinese government when it signed the agreement in 2022.

The US president says his military has been running a "secret mission" to help tankers and commercial ships defy Iran's blockade.

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The Albanese government is paying an economic and political toll for an ongoing and deeply unpopular war.  

As UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer fights for his political life, the country is bracing for what could be a yet another summer of unrest.

Hadi Alodid, a 30-year-old man from Sudan, appears in a Belfast court charged with attempted murder over a stabbing attack that triggered anti-immigrant violence in several parts of Northern Ireland.

Four military intelligence officers are sentenced to up to three years in jail, after they threw sulphuric acid over a human rights activist in a brazen attack in Central Jakarta.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he is "very worried" about fresh US strikes on Iran and has highlighted the difficulties for global markets responding to US President Donald Trump's repeated peace deal announcements.

Xi Jinping and Kim Jong Un's bilateral talks in North Korea were a big departure from the Chinese president's usual diplomacy playbook because, for this first time this year, he was the one travelling abroad to make the meeting happen.

The Trump administration's planned fee for the H-1B visa was announced to prevent foreign workers from taking American jobs.

The US president is in deepening trouble and he does not seem to know how to get himself out of it. 

Taipei sits at the physical centre of the global AI economy but remains shut out of the diplomatic rooms where its sovereign rights are negotiated, often by others.

China and North Korea should strengthen exchanges "in diplomacy, law enforcement, and the military", Chinese leader Xi Jinping has suggested during a rare two-day visit to Pyongyang.

US President Donald Trump angrily storms out of an interview with American broadcaster NBC after he was questioned about his unfounded claims of election fraud.