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The pounding of running shoes echoes through a Singapore shopping mall as fitness enthusiasts desperate to exercise take refuge from choking haze.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and rival Gadi Eisenkot each vowed on Wednesday to form a government after both came up short in the first election since the October 7, 2023 attack traumatised the country.

Technology firms surged across Asia on Wednesday after blockbuster earnings from chip giant SK hynix helped boost optimism in the AI trade ahead of results from Wall Street titans Microsoft and Alphabet.

India's Jio Platforms makes its stock market debut on Wednesday after a record-breaking IPO, capping billionaire owner Mukesh Ambani's years-long drive to diversify his conglomerate beyond oil refining.

Tired but resolute, dozens of Tamil cattle farmers have held a round-the-clock vigil for almost three years in eastern Sri Lanka, protesting what they call land "theft".

Britain's finance minister John Healey will unveil his first budget Wednesday, as he juggles commitments to defence spending and easing household bills with little financial room to manoeuvre.

As labourers gathered at a roadside in northern Afghanistan, Ghulam Sakhi Barat joined the search for work, with millions of new arrivals intensifying pressure for jobs and homes.

No startup has ever grown so fast. In five years, Anthropic has become an AI giant valued at $1 trillion, and it is now aiming for a record-breaking stock market debut.

Christine, a retired widow in Arizona, placed food staples in her cart at a charity food distribution event -- as she's had to do monthly since the Trump administration slashed federal food assistance programs.

The US Federal Reserve will announce a decision on setting interest rates on Wednesday, with markets expecting the central bank to hold steady days ahead of crucial midterm elections, despite surging inflation.

Jury selection is expected to begin on Wednesday in Los Angeles for another landmark trial about the alleged harms of social media on young users, with Meta and, for the first time, Snap as defendants.

Formerly a Democratic stronghold, the predominantly Hispanic region of southern Texas has swung rightward in recent years, helping Republicans to a narrow majority in Congress and highlighting a broader shift in Latino voter sentiment.

The French parliament's upper house passed a bill Wednesday that would make protesters financially liable for damage caused during street demonstrations, despite warnings from critics that it could curb the right to protest.

A low-lying Pacific nation urging drastic climate action has "limited ability" to halt its own government investments in fossil fuel companies, external advisers wrote in internal documents obtained by AFP.

Ferocious winds and torrential rain lashed India's southeastern coast as Cyclone Arnab made landfall on Wednesday, forcing nearly 100,000 people to evacuate their homes in two states, authorities said.

Mahmoud Khalil, a figurehead of Gaza war protests in the United States, returned Tuesday to Columbia University for the first time since his 2025 arrest under President Donald Trump's crackdown on pro-Palestinian activists.

As the first exit polls arrived in Israel's election, opposition supporters breathed a sigh of relief. But as a long night set in, nervousness grew on both sides in a tight race that is pivotal for the country.

US President Donald Trump announced Tuesday a sweeping rollback of rules that stop oil and gas producers from emitting methane, a greenhouse gas super pollutant.

South Korean chip giant SK hynix said Wednesday its third-quarter operating profit soared 632 percent on-year, largely driven by the artificial intelligence industry's explosive demand for its advanced memory chips.

Israel's opposition candidate Gadi Eisenkot vowed Wednesday to work quickly to form a government, saying voters had rejected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's divisive rule, but neither bloc secured a majority in the first election since the October 7 attack.

The French parliament's upper house on Tuesday debated a controversial bill that would make protesters financially liable for damage caused during street demonstrations, despite warnings from critics that it could curb the right to protest.

Young Canadians testified Tuesday to a "sense of despair" during a landmark climate trial over the federal government's alleged climate policy failures and the "scary" consequences of global warming.

홍석기 경찰청 국가수사본부장이 사법경찰리의 피의자 신문조서(피신조서) 작성에 대한 공소청의 시정 요구가 있었다며 지침을 마련 중이라고 발표했다. 사법경찰리의 피의자 신문 가능 여부를 두고 경찰과 공소청이 이견을 드러내며 수사 일선의 혼란이 가중되는 상황이다.

삼성전자 내부에서 빼낸 기밀 자료를 이용해 미국 법원에서 삼성전자를 상대로 특허 침해 소송을 제기한 혐의로 재판에 넘겨진 안승호 전 삼성전자 부사장이 2심에서도 실형을 선고받고 법정구속됐다.

이재명 대통령의 명예를 훼손한 혐의로 유시민 작가를 수사하던 경찰이 이 대통령의 처벌 불원 의사에 따라 27일 사건을 불송치 종결했다.

Mikel Arteta said Arsenal's stunning League Cup defeat by fourth-tier Fleetwood was "a very sad day" as the Premier League champions suffered one of the most embarrassing results in their history.

Israeli voters on Tuesday gave the opposition a narrow edge over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but no majority, exit polls showed, in decades-high turnout for the country's first election since the trauma of the October 7, 2023 attacks.

서울 강남의 ‘마지막 판자촌’으로 불리는 개포동 구룡마을에서 또다시 대형 화재가 발생했다. 지난 1월 큰불로 이재민이 발생한 지 9개월여 만이다.

Syria and Jordan announced on Tuesday they were determined to maintain good relations, after the Jordanian military conducted deadly strikes on its neighbour in retaliation for a gun attack on a church.

King Charles III began a Caribbean tour in the Bahamas Tuesday where he acknowledged "the great suffering of the past" in the face of pressure to apologize for the slave trade.

24일 중국을 방문한 김정은 북한 국무위원장 옆에서 최선희 외무상이 400만 원이 넘는 핸드백을 들고 기념 촬영을 해 관심이 집중되고 있다. 해당 방중에서 북한 측에서는 조용원 노동당 비서, 최 외무상, 김덕훈 내각 제1부총리, 김여정 노동당 총무부장, 리룡남 주중 북한대사 등이 김 위원장을 수행했다.

회원 1만7000여 명을 확보, 4900억 원대 불법 도박사이트를 운영한 일당이 무더기로 경찰에 붙잡혔다. 특히 이들은 워크숍과 단합행사를 열어 조직 결속력을 유지한 것으로 조사됐다.