Police have detained 322 people after a Jakarta protest against corruption spilled into a night of rioting outside parliament. Forty-five were named as suspects on Friday, and one...

The US Department of Justice has quietly softened its account of a major case of hacking by China. On Friday, August 28, it edited a press release issued...

Donald Trump announced what he called the biggest oil deal in world history late Friday. The agreement, he wrote on Truth Social, hands Washington majority control of more...

Russia's Defence Ministry announced a strategic missile launch on Friday, August 28. The test used a mobile, solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile fired from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the...

Iran's Revolutionary Guards announced a deal with Oman on Wednesday covering both the waters of the Strait of Hormuz and the revenue from it. The two neighbours have...

The United States announced on 26 August that it had shut down a Chinese hacking campaign that had burrowed into NASA, the Federal Reserve, the Justice Department, and...

CIA Chief John Ratcliffe landed in Moscow on Tuesday, 25 August. He met Russian intelligence officials, stayed a matter of hours, then flew home. Nobody in Washington announced...

China has developed hypersonic glide vehicles that can launch air-to-air weapons in mid-flight, Bloomberg reported on 24 August, citing a person with direct knowledge of the matter. The...

The United States Air Force wants a missile that can destroy an enemy aircraft 1,000 nautical miles away. On Tuesday, it began telling defence contractors how to build...

President Volodymyr Zelensky has denied that Ukraine ordered the attack on the Nord Stream gas pipelines. Speaking to reporters in Kyiv on Sunday during the Ukraine–Nordic-Baltic summit, four...

A court in Shenzhen has jailed the man who built China's largest property empire. On August 20, the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court sentenced Evergrande founder Hui Ka Yan,...

South Korea's military intelligence says North Korea is continuing preparations for another troop deployment to Russia, but that no movement indicating an imminent dispatch has been detected. The...