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WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Friday raged against eco-friendly paper straws promoted by his predecessor Joe Biden, and pledged that the United States would return to

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Friday raged against eco-friendly paper straws promoted by his predecessor Joe Biden, and pledged that the United States would return to

PARIS: French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou survived a second no-confidence vote on Wednesday night, launched by the hard left-wing party La France Insoumise (LFI), reported

WASHINGTON: The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) headquarters was closed on Monday, with employees instructed to work remotely, United Press International (UPI) reported.

WASHINGTON: Hundreds of US government websites, including USAID’s, were offline on Monday, an AFP review found. The outage affected over 350 federal sites from a

BEIJING: China has eased some travel restrictions on Uyghurs but still imposes “severe controls” on those seeking to go abroad or visit family in Xinjiang,

PHNOM PENH: Cambodia has completed the restoration of a more than 1,000-year-old brick temple on the north side of Phnom Krom Temple in the UNESCO-listed

SEOUL: A travel agency has opened bookings for a tour to North Korea’s Rason to mark the late leader Kim Jong Il’s birthday, offering foreign

BEIJING: The US has long accused China of enabling the fentanyl trade, which officials say is now the leading cause of death among Americans aged

SEOUL: Samsung Electronics chief Lee Jae-yong was cleared again Monday of a raft of charges linked to a controversial 2015 merger which prosecutors claimed was

TOKYO: Japan on Sunday launched the Michibiki navigation satellite aboard the H3 Rocket No. 5 from the Tanegashima Space Centre in Kagoshima Prefecture, reported Xinhua.