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Southeast Asia is set to be the region hardest hit by American tariffs, according to a new UN report, with observers saying the fallout could push Asean deeper into China’s orbit as the US raises the price of entry to its vast consumer market. The report from the United Nations Development Programme forecasts a 6.4 […]

Japanese tourism to the United States is facing major headwinds – from a weak yen and safety concerns to dwindling interest among younger travellers – with the sparse American turnout at Japan’s biggest travel fair this year offering a glimpse of the market’s fragility. Analysts and tourism officials say the slowdown points to deeper structural […]

Colombian officials said on Monday that the country had produced its first combat rifle, a cheaper, lighter weapon aimed at replacing the arms that were once supplied by its former military ally, Israel. Leftist President Gustavo Petro broke ties with Israel last year to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ongoing military offensive in the Gaza […]

Donald Trump stirred online outrage on Monday after posting an apparent AI-generated video of himself promising every American access to all-healing “MedBed” hospitals, reviving a widely debunked conspiracy theory. The deepfake video – posted on Saturday on the US president’s Truth Social account and later deleted – was styled as a Fox News segment and […]

Nearly 90 years after Amelia Earhart vanished over the Pacific, a presidential order to declassify every US record on her final, ill-fated flight has sparked a fresh surge of interest in one of aviation’s most enduring enigmas. US President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he had ordered the declassification of “all records” related to […]

When Saudi Arabia and Pakistan signed a mutual defence agreement earlier this month, it was widely interpreted as a gesture of Muslim unity in a region roiled by crisis. But its reverberations are already being felt among policymakers in Pakistan’s perennial rival India, threatening to complicate New Delhi’s delicate diplomatic balancing act in the Gulf. […]

We have put together stories from our coverage last weekend to help you stay informed about news across Asia and beyond. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. China is ‘nanoseconds behind’ US in chips, says Nvidia’s Jensen Huang 2. Dim sum trolleys go silent as Hong Kong’s […]

It has black button eyes and long, thin whiskers that tremble when it looks around curiously. Unlike most rats, this one has a name, Plume, and gets to enjoy the rare privilege of wandering around Paris on the shoulder of its owner, a local politician. Gregory Moreau, a Paris district deputy mayor, is on a […]

Iran said on Monday it hanged a man accused of spying for Israel, the latest as Tehran carries out its largest wave of executions in decades. Iran identified the executed man as Bahman Choobiasl, whose case was not immediately known in Iranian media reports or to activists monitoring the death penalty in the Islamic Republic. […]

Bukhara once flourished as a Silk Road hub, where travelling poets, merchants and scholars converged. But under Soviet rule during the 20th century, the Uzbekistani city was for decades sealed off from the world, with few outsiders entering. This autumn, the narrow streets of the medieval city are abuzz again, but with a very different […]