FBI Director Kash Patel visited New Zealand over the weekend to launch the bureau’s new office there, saying the country was a crucial partner for fighting Chinese influence in the Indo-Pacific region.

Reuters - President Donald Trump could meet Vladimir Putin as soon as next week, a White House official said on Wednesday, as the U.S. continued preparations to impose secondary sanctions, including potentially on China, to pressure Moscow to end the

U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Wednesday imposing an additional 25% tariff on goods from India, saying the country directly or indirectly imported Russian oil, adding to 25% tariffs already announced.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that Ukrainian troops in northeastern Ukraine were fighting foreign ’’mercenaries’’ from various countries including China, Pakistan and parts of Africa, and vowed a response.

Parts of the Great Barrier Reef have suffered the largest annual decline in coral cover since records began nearly 40 years ago, according to a new report.

Race organisers at Utah’s famed Bonneville Salt Flats have confirmed that a veteran driver died in a 283mph (455km/h) crash while trying to break the land speed record.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said on Tuesday that it will start winding down mRNA vaccine development efforts under a federal health agency focused on developing medical countermeasures to address public health emergencies.

India’s digital payment revolution reached a new peak on August 2, 2025, as the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) clocked over 707 million transactions in a single day — its highest ever.

When Sri Lanka announced a partnership with China’s BYD to bring electric vehicles into the country, it was heralded as a double victory: a leap toward green mobility and a symbol of deepening economic ties with Beijing. Today, that bold venture ha

WhatsApp says it has taken down 6.8 million accounts linked to scammers targeting people around the world in the first half of this year.

Vietnam has been hit by an increasing number of outbreaks of African swine fever, with the number of infected pigs more than tripling in just two weeks, state media said on Tuesday.

Japan recorded its highest-ever temperature of 41.8 degrees Celsius (107.2 degrees Fahrenheit) on Tuesday, prompting the government to advise residents to stay indoors and promise steps to ease weather-related damage to rice crops.

India emerged as the world’s fifth biggest aviation market, handling 241 million passengers, while Mumbai-Delhi was one of the busiest airport pairs in 2024, according to data released by global airlines’ grouping IATA.

Myanmar military courts have sentenced a dozen individuals, including five Chinese nationals, to life imprisonment for their involvement in multiple human trafficking cases, state-run media reported on Saturday (Aug 2).

India has called Donald Trump’s threat of ’’substantially’’ higher tariffs over its purchase of oil from Russia ’’unjustified and unreasonable’’.

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said in June that China posed an imminent threat and urged Indo-Pacific countries to increase military spending to 5% of GDP.

Philippines President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr is set to visit India from August 4-8, and hold talks with President Droupadi Murmu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other officials.

Pakistan’s inflation surged to 4.1 per cent in July, driven primarily by rising costs of non-perishable food items and the Pakistani government-administered increases in energy tariffs, The Express Tribune reported.

More than 60 migrants died when a boat carrying around 150 people sank off the coast of Yemen in bad weather on Sunday.

In a moment steeped in déjà vu, US President Donald Trump on July 22 unveiled a sweeping new trade pact with Japan.

The second phase of the petroleum pipeline project, being carried out with assistance from the Indian Government and extending from Nepal’s Amlekhgunj in Bara to Lothar in Chitwan, has officially commenced.

A newborn has been named the world’s oldest baby after being born from an embryo frozen in 1994.

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) pressed the Pentagon on Monday for answers about its guardrails on contractors following revelations that Microsoft was using China-based engineers to maintain the agency’s computer systems.

A collection of hundreds of jewels linked to Buddha’s remains has returned to India after 127 years following an auction planned for earlier this year that drew threats of legal action from the government in Delhi.

U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order reducing import taxes on goods from Sri Lanka to 20%. This is a big drop from the 44% rate he announced in April, the White House said late Thursday.

Foreign ministers from the Quad nations- Australia, India, Japan, and the United States- convened in Washington earlier this month and unveiled a robust strategy designed to counteract China’s coercive influence in the Indo-Pacific, as reported by

On July 4, US President Donald Trump signed the highly controversial One Big Beautiful Bill Act, raising the US federal debt ceiling by $5 trillion to $41.1 trillion. The bill will increase the fiscal deficit by $3.4 trillion over the next 10 years a

As the world grapples with a new wave of economic nationalism, Sri Lanka stands at a precarious crossroads. In April 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump announced sweeping new tariffs, reviving an aggressive ’’America First’’ trade doctrine.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning roles recorded a significant 42 per cent year-on-year (YoY) growth in June 2025, highlighted the Monthly Economic Review released by the Department of Economic Affairs.

Two Hyderabad-based firms have teamed up to build India’s first “dual stealth drone,” combining autonomous flight with a new material that hides platforms from both radar and infrared (IR) sensors.