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Singapore (AFP) May 31, 2025 - US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Saturday warned that China was credibly preparing to use military force to upend the balance of power in Asia - remarks that earned a sharp rebuke from Beijing.
May 31, 2025
Guwahati, India (AFP) May 31, 2025 - Torrential monsoon rains in India's northeast triggered landslides and floods that swept away and killed at least five people in Assam, disaster officials said Saturday.
May 31, 2025
Singapore (AFP) May 31, 2025 - India's defence chief on Saturday appeared to confirm his country had lost at least one aircraft during the brief conflict with Pakistan earlier this month, he told Bloomberg in an interview.
May 31, 2025
Panama City (AFP) May 31, 2025 - Panama's government said Friday it would start maintenance work at a major mine forced to shut by protests, but insisted the project was not tantamount to the pit reopening.
May 31, 2025
Alexandria, Egypt (AFP) May 31, 2025 - An unseasonal rainstorm battered the Egyptian city of Alexandria on Saturday, flooding roads and damaging seafront businesses in the latest bout of erratic weather to hit the region.
May 31, 2025
Dushanbe, Tajikistan (AFP) May 31, 2025 - The collapse of the Swiss Birch glacier serves as a chilling warning of the escalating dangers faced by communities worldwide living under the shadow of fragile ice, particularly in Asia, experts say.
May 31, 2025
Port Sudan, Sudan (AFP) May 31, 2025 - Anti-aircraft missiles fired over Sudan's wartime capital Port Sudan on Saturday, eyewitnesses reported, as drones flew over the once-safe haven city.
May 31, 2025
Singapore (AFP) May 31, 2025 - China hit back at French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday for drawing a connection between the Ukraine conflict and the fate of Taiwan, saying the two issues are different in nature, and not comparable at all.
May 31, 2025
Abuja (AFP) May 31, 2025 - Search teams fanned out Saturday from the epicentre of deadly flash flooding in Nigeria, the Red Cross said, as the death toll from heavy rains in the north-central market town of Mokwa topped 150.
May 31, 2025
Bucharest (AFP) May 30, 2025 - Romanian authorities scrambled Friday to save a salt mine in the northern village of Praid from further damage after heavy rains worsened flooding at a site that provides the region's economic lifeblood.
May 30, 2025
Geneva (AFP) May 30, 2025 - A cascade of events in the Swiss Alps led to the dramatic collapse of the Birch glacier, wiping out Blatten village in the valley below, glaciologists and geoscientists told AFP on Friday.
May 30, 2025
Hong Kong (AFP) May 30, 2025 - China signed a convention on Friday setting up a global mediation body in Hong Kong, which aims to be comparable to organisations such as the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
May 30, 2025
Seoul (AFP) May 30, 2025 - On the campaign trail in South Korea ahead of the June 3 vote, leading candidates in the presidential race have barely mentioned the nuclear-armed North - but a new leader in Seoul could shake-up years of Pyongyang policy.
May 30, 2025
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) May 30, 2025 - Malaysia has criticised the European Union's scrutiny of some of its exports under new deforestation rules, insisting the bloc is using outdated information to decide what level of checks to impose.
May 30, 2025
London (AFP) May 30, 2025 - Muddy saltmarshes are major stores of greenhouse gases and should be protected to help Britain in the battle against climate change, a new report said Friday.
May 30, 2025
Washington DC (UPI) May 30, 2025 - Six gray whales have been found dead in the wider San Francisco Bay Area in the last seven days, raising the total number of dead whales in the region to 15 for the year.
May 30, 2025
