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SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's top central banker will attend an annual U.S. symposium and other international meetings to discuss the latest global economic conditions and monetary policy direction, the Bank of Korea (BOK) said Thursday.
MANILA, Philippines — The Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) has issued a stern warning against the filmmaker behind the political film “Tatsulok” after discovering a falsified Permit to Exhibit (PTE) linked to the movie and its production company.
A generation after Germany banned a neo-Nazi youth organization for seeking to cultivate a new extremist elite, four of its former members now hold influential roles around the politician who is on track to become the country’s first far-right state premier since the Federal Republic of Germany was founded in 1949.
QATAR PM IN EGYPT. Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty (not pictured) and Qatari Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani attend a meeting with other ministers, in El Alamein, Egypt, August 20, 2026.
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China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi attends the Comprehensive Strategic Dialogue between Indonesia and China in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Aug. 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana, File)
MANILA, Philippines — The Supreme Court has affirmed that candidates who place second in local elections do not automatically succeed winners who are later disqualified or found ineligible.
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Eswatini says it "will not be coerced, disadvantaged or destabilised" over its foreign policy choices, the government said on Wednesday after China told its citizens to immediately leave the country.
Qatar’s Prime Minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman, is travelling to Tehran in an attempt to revive negotiations between Iran and the US and discuss the management of the Strait of Hormuz.
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob was charged on Thursday with failure to declare assets, the third former premier prosecuted in recent years over alleged graft-related offenses.
A race has emerged in right-wing Israeli politics over who can more closely associate themselves with Irgun, a militia implicated in the killing and torture of dozens of Palestinians during the 1948 war that led to the Nakba, the forced displacement of more than 750,000 Palestinians during the formation of the state…
An industry super fund-backed consortium has been selected to develop the Arden urban renewal precinct despite a rival bid that would have completed the project 15 years sooner.
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South Korea will intensify its crackdown on Chinese fishing boats operating illegally near the Northern Limit Line in the Yellow Sea, including by deploying more Coast Guard special forces and strengthening cooperation with Beijing, the government said Thursday.
Chairman Jung meets Vietnamese industry minister to discuss cooperation in local energy infrastructure
Many AfD supporters believe modern Germany should be proud of its history and focus less on its Nazi past
An 11-member government rapid response team departed for Nepal on Thursday, which has been devastated by massive flooding and landslides.
Police in Zimbabwe have arrested a district official charged with culpable homicide over the sinking of a government-run ferry that claimed at least 97 lives.
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Yonhap) -- Prime Minister Han Seong-sook called for measures Thursday to reform the way police handle missing person cases and to overhaul the agency's "organizational culture" amid public outrage over revelations an officer prematurely closed at least two cases with false reports the victims have be…
Opposition lawmakers at the National Assembly on Thursday proposed a special bill to support South Korea's production of nuclear-powered attack submarines, which would involve cooperation with Washington on securing nuclear propulsion technology.
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has again appeared to confuse her party’s immigration policy despite more than a week of scrutiny over her position – suggesting there would be both positive and negative overall migration levels in the same conversation.
At lunchtime on Wednesday, a first-term backbencher from Queensland’s regional town of Maryborough shared a local win – he’d successfully pushed for the removal of a public bench from a city street.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held direct contact and negotiations with Hamas behind the security establishment's back during Operation Protective Edge in 2014, using Israeli businessman Shlomi Fogel as an intermediary.
In its latest effort to quash rumors and concerns it will sell off more of its assets amid reports it is the subject of federal investigations into potential tax fraud, TWG Global said Wednesday that its stakes in both the Los Angeles Dodgers and its Cadillac Formula 1 team are not for sale.
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Parents for Climate took its plea to NSW Parliament in the lead-up to the IPC's decision. (ABC News)
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Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate Abdul El-Sayed speaks at a news conference at the base of the Spirit of Detroit monument in Detroit, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to continue establishing settlements in the occupied West Bank despite mounting international pressure, while promising a major wave of Israeli immigration to the occupied Palestinian territory.
Labor recently said it would keep refugee places at 20,000 and aspire to increase intake. (Pexels: Keira Burton)
A former senior government executive believed her school-aged children were being stalked by CFMEU members and was subjected to expletive name-calling before she resigned, the Queensland inquiry into the union has heard.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrives to the Capitol building, Tuesday, July 28, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)
Former NSW Labor planning minister Frank Sartor was engaged to provide planning advice to developer Bathla weeks before the company entered voluntary administration, owing more than $3 billion and threatening the delivery of thousands of homes.
Linda Henry poses for a photo in Long Beach, Calif., on July 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
The US saidWednesday it had disrupted a Chinese hacking operation responsible for breakins and attempts on the Justice Department, NASA, the Federal Reserve, the Senate, and other sensitive government agencies.
Andrew Tate, left, watches his brother Tristan speak, outside a police station in Voluntari, Romania, May 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)
Poll to take place in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, where Bauhaus blossomed a century ago – and where AfD is promising ‘patriotic culture policy’ if it wins
A sense of abandonment could make Saxony-Anhalt the first state government to be solely led by the AfD. But the party’s hollow promises will only make a dire situation worse
Malaysia’s former Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob, center, arrives at courthouse for a corruption case in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — The Brazilian government on Wednesday said it was suing the Discord messaging platform for nearly $100 million in damages over its alleged failure to protect children from harmful content and demanded it adopt stronger safeguards.
The head of the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (Unrwa) said that the Israeli government’s raid on the last remaining facility run by the UN agency earlier this weep is an attempt to "eliminate the presence of the United Nations" in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Search efforts have been expanded on both sides, with 484 tourists from at least 26 countries among those unaccounted for
Search efforts have been expanded on both sides, with 484 tourists from at least 26 countries among those unaccounted for
PARANG, Maguindanao del Norte – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) and security forces have finalized preparations and measures to ensure a peaceful, orderly, and secure vote for the first parliamentary elections in the Bangsamoro Region on Sept. 14.
Authored by Luc Lelièvre via Mises Institute,