Civil servants are being offered incentives to quit as US President Donald Trump seeks to cut costs and install more ...

UNITED NATIONS - France will propose a draft resolution to the U.N. Security Council on Friday that aims to \"increase the ...

HELSINKI - A Swedish prosecutor said on Friday he had decided to release from detention five suspects who were held over the killing on Wednesday of an anti-Islam campaigner. Read more at straitstimes ...

WASHINGTON - China's presence around the Panama Canal is a national security concern that Panama's government has to deal with, U.S. Special Envoy for Latin America Mauricio Claver-Carone said on ...

Aston Villa have been fined 30,000 pounds ($37,350) and Newcastle United 20,000 pounds on Friday for failing to control their players and staff members during an altercation in their Premier League ...

MOSCOW - Firefighters have extinguished a blaze that had burned for two days at a petrochemicals plant in Russia's Nizhny Novogorod region struck by Ukrainian drones on Wednesday, state news agency ...

U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to announce new tariffs against Canada and Mexico that will begin on March 1, but will include a process for the countries to seek specific exemptions for ...

Four female colleagues who saw what happened at the practice raised the alarm some time after the offences. Read more at straitstimes.com.

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration has urged government workers to quit their \"lower productivity jobs\" and seek work in the private sector, and to take a vacation to a \"dream destination,\" ...

PARIS - France rejected criticism from new U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio that it lagged in defence, saying it met NATO's target to spend 2% of GDP on its military, was on course to double ...

Singapore's world No. 83 Izaac Quek takes on Sweden's Anton Kallberg, who beat him 4-0 in 2024. Read more at straitstimes.com.