Australia will provide surveillance drones and other high-tech gear to the Philippine coast guard and is considering whether to take part in joint patrols in the disputed South China Sea, Australia Foreign Minister Penny Wong said Thursday.

Facing a migration quagmire on the French island territory of Mayotte, off Africa’s east coast, France’s government has sent in 2,000 troops and police to carry out mass expulsions, destroy slums and eradicate violent gangs.

World leaders landed Thursday for a Group of Seven meeting in Hiroshima, the site of the world’s first atomic bomb attack, with Russia’s war in Ukraine expected to be high on the agenda.

At least six people were killed in the fire at an emergency housing location in central Wellington.

Covid has given rise to a new business in China: hospital escort services for elderly patients whose children are far away or busy working.

A Hebrew Bible more than 1 000 years old sold for $38.1 million in New York on Wednesday, setting a record for the most valuable manuscript ever sold at auction.

President Biden on Thursday said the Group of Seven nations faces one of the most complex security environments in recent history, but he’s “proud that the United States and Japan are facing it together” as he kicked off an abbreviated Asia trip by sit…

Police in Spain are searching the waters of Barcelona’s port – near to where a British rugby player went missing.