Officials from Thailand and Cambodia begin four days of border talks as deadly clashes displace civilians and strain a fragile truce. The meeting is the first after fruitless efforts to reinstate a ce...
An aerial video released by Beijing during this week’s military exercise and featuring the Taipei 101 landmark in Taiwan has ignited a debate on how close PLA drones came to the heart of Taipei. The b...
China’s central bank has set the yuan’s daily reference rate at its strongest level in 15 months, as the currency strengthened in offshore trading and briefly broke through the closely watched seven-p...
Iran executed at least 1,500 people last year, the Norway-based Iran Human Rights group said on Thursday, in what it called an “unprecedented” hike in the use of capital punishment. “It is very alarmi...
Maduro's lawyers are expected to contest the legality of his arrest, arguing that he is immune from prosecution as a sovereign head of state....
Protests sparked by economic hardship have spread across Iran, in the biggest wave of dissent in three years....
Businessman found guilty of falsifying documents for executives at the German fintech company...
Turkish special police detained more than 100 suspected members of the "Islamic State" terrorist group that they said were planning on carrying out attacks during Christmas and New Year celebrations i...
Danish police at Copenhagen Airport on September 22. STEVEN KNAP/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images Several European airports have been temporarily shut down due to nearby drone sightings. Analysts a...
On the last day of 2025, DeepSeek published a new technical paper, with founder and CEO Liang Wenfeng among the 19 co-authors, about “manifold-constrained hyper-connections” – a general framework for ...
On December 16, Chinese President Xi Jinping, on receiving a work report from Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu, said the city should proactively align with the country’s 15th five-year plan ...
The latest attacks bring the total number of known boat strikes to 35 and the number of people killed to at least 115 since early September, according to official figures....
This year's figures represent a drop in migrant arrivals from North Africa to the Canary Islands, one of the world's deadliest crossings for migrants hoping to reach the EU....
China's large military exercise around Taiwan comes after tensions with Japan and a major US arms sale. Maxim Shemetov/Reuters China's military is conducting massive war games all around Taiwan. The e...
We have selected seven stories from the SCMP’s coverage of Asia over the past week that resonated with our readers and shed light on topical issues. If you would like to see more of our reporting, ple...
The US has hit back at ISIS following a deadly ambush that killed several Americans earlier this month. US Army photo US and partner forces killed or captured nearly 25 ISIS fighters in late December....
Russia's T-14 tanks are considered its best, but they don't seem to have been in Ukraine. Sean Gallup/Getty Images The British military expected to see more "prestige" Russian equipment in Ukr...
Thieves broke into the vault of one branch of Germany's Sparkasse Gelsenkirchen. Christoph Reichwein/picture alliance via Getty Images Thieves stole valuables worth at least $36 million from a German ...
Ukraine is using ground robots to evacuate the wounded, and some have cages or armor to protect the soldiers. 1st Separate Medical Battalion A ground robot evacuating a wounded Ukrainian soldier was a...
The Turkish Interior Ministry mourned the loss of thee security force members as police moved in on a suspected hideout. Six Islamist militants were reported to have been killed in the operation....