International

Agencies Jakarta: Indonesian Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto was on course to win the archipelago's presidential election by a wide margin, election commission results showed Friday, with 50 percent of votes counted. The official…

Xinhua/APP Wellington: New Zealand fire crews were responding to a large vegetation fire in the Port Hills near Christchurch, covering about 650 hectares, Fire and Emergency New Zealand said on Thursday. A state of emergency was…

AFP/APP Melbourne:  Storms packing powerful winds toppled trees, killed one person, and knocked out power to 174,000 homes and businesses in eastern Australia, officials said Wednesday. The wild weather hit large swathes of Victoria…

AFP/APP New York: Voters in suburban New York picked a Democrat to replace expelled Republican congressman George Santos on Tuesday, US networks projected, after President Joe Biden's party poured cash into TV ads to flip the seat in an…

Xinhua/APP Beijing: An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 jolted the South Sandwich Islands Region at 0430 GMT on Wednesday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said.

Xinhua/APP Beijing: The domestic comedy film "YOLO" continued to top China's daily box office chart on Monday, data from the China Movie Data Information Network showed. The movie tells the story of an unemployed woman in her thirties…

AFP/APP Washington: Donald Trump on Monday appealed to the US Supreme Court to block a lower court ruling that had denied his claim to immunity for alleged crimes while he was president. The appeal for the top court to stay the…

Xinhua/APP Manila: The death toll in a massive landslide that crashed into villages in Davao de Oro province in the southern Philippines has climbed to 35 from 27, with 77 others remaining missing, authorities said on Sunday. The Maco…

Xinhua/APP Tokyo: An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.7 jolted Japan's Noto region in Ishikawa prefecture, the weather agency said here on Sunday. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), the quake took place at…

AFP/APP Jakarta: Indonesians vote in a presidential election on Wednesday, with Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto the clear favourite after a campaign mixing nationalist rhetoric and pledges to continue the era of popular outgoing leader…