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U.S. and South Korean military forces fired a volley of missiles into the sea early Wednesday and staged a bombing drill in the Yellow Sea in response to the North Korean missile launch.

As a delegation from the West African political bloc ECOWAS arrived in Ouagadougou on Tuesday, protesters took to the streets outside the airport. They shouted anti-French and anti-ECOWAS slogans and said it was time for Burkina Faso to manage its own ret...

Reserve Bank of New Zealand raises the benchmark rate by half a percentage point in fifth straight outsized hike.

Deputy economy minister says chipmaking requires collaboration to ensure a ‘very resilient supply chain’.

Electricity supply restored after the country plunged into a blackout following the failure of its national power grid.

Swiss bank’s plummeting share price has invited comparisons to the onset of the 2008 global financial crisis.

Latest weapons package, including four more HIMARS rocket launchers, comes as Ukraine military continues its advance.

Paid leave for menstrual pain should not substitute investments in health research for women and ethnic minorities.

Egyptian women use alternative therapies – colours, clay, movement and dance – to fight depression and other issues.

Attempts to boost forces in Ukraine appear chaotic and have unleashed rare shows of criticism.

At least 25 die after a bus carrying wedding guests veers off the road and falls into a deep gorge in Uttarakhand state.

Vladimir Putin formalises a move that Ukraine and its Western allies have condemned as a meaningless ‘sham’.

As Hong Kong experienced one of its hottest summers, the underprivileged living in Hong Kong’s notorious shoebox apartments are struggling to keep cool amid the territory’s ongoing housing crisis.

More than 500,000 homes and businesses in the southeastern US state still without power as death toll there and in North Carolina tops 100

The blackouts are said to affect 75-80% of Bangladesh, a country of 168 million people

Law aimed at making English-speakers more comfortable in the French-speaking majority country