Chile's President Gabriel Boric has become the first leader in the Americas to visit the South Pole, after arriving at a US base there. The president said his visit to the Amundsen-Scott South ...

A recent encounter between the Singapore Police Coast Guard (PCG) and Indonesian fishermen near Tuas has sparked allegations of "intimidation" from the fishermen, following what Singapore authorities ...

On New Year's Day, a man drove his speeding truck into a crowd of New Orleans partiers in what the FBI is calling a terrorist assault. He killed 15 people and injured more than 30 more before ...

SINGAPORE: Singapore's coast guard took “appropriate enforcement action” after Indonesian fishing boats entered the country's waters multiple times, the Singapore Police Force (SPF ...

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The man who killed 10 people and injured at least 35 others in a horrific terrorist attack in New Orleans on New Year's Day was reportedly carrying an ISIS flag with him in the rental truck he ...

Indonesia scaled back its planned increase in the value-added tax rate just hours before it was set to take effect on January 1 amid escalating public outcry. The VAT rate will be increased to 12% ...

Passersby noticed a Confederate flag flying from a City of Whiteville flagpole on the first morning of the New Year. City Manager Darren Currie personally removed the flag, which he said was not ...

Earlier, in his inaugural speech on Oct 20, Prabowo expressed optimism that Indonesia would achieve food self-sufficiency within four to five years. - Bernama-Antara ...

FREDERICTON - Motorists caught in New Brunswick for driving while impaired will face additional immediate consequences under new penalties that take effect Jan. 1. Changes to the province’s ...

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Crowds have been gathering at the flag pole at Independence and Market streets since 1988 to watch a replica piece of anthracite coal be lowered at the stroke of midnight.