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Veteran Thai politician Anutin Charnvirakul won a vote in Parliament on Friday to become the country’s next prime minister, according to an unofficial running tally broadcast live on television. Anutin, leader of the Bhumjaithai party, won a total of 311 votes, far exceeding the 247 required majority from the House of Representative’s 492 active members. He and his government are ...

Women holding up brooms and placards attend a protest outside the parliament complex in Jakarta on Sept. 3, 2025. Photo: Reuters Hundreds of Indonesian women, dressed in symbolic pink and black, and carrying brooms, rallied in Jakarta on Wednesday to demand sweeping reforms in the country’s security forces after a violent crackdown on nationwide protests, reports Arab News. At least ...

Thailand’s acting prime minister has taken steps to dissolve parliament, his party announced Wednesday, following a major political shift in the race for the country’s top office. The move comes just days after prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra was removed from office by the Constitutional Court, creating a power vacuum at the highest level of government. Her party, Pheu Thai — ...

More than 1,000 people have been killed in a devastating landslide in Sudan’s western Darfur region, according to a statement released late Monday by the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A), a rebel group that controls the affected area. The disaster occurred on Sunday at the village of Tarasin, located in the Marra mountains, following several days of heavy rainfall. The group ...

A massive rescue operation was underway in Afghanistan Monday, after a strong earthquake and multiple aftershocks flattened homes in a remote, mountainous region, killing more than 800 people, the Taliban authorities said. The earthquake struck just before midnight, shaking buildings from Kabul to neighbouring Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad. More than 1.2 million people likely felt strong or very strong shaking, according ...

The Israeli military confirmed on Sunday that it carried out an airstrike on a Hezbollah site in southern Lebanon, targeting what it described as military infrastructure, including underground facilities. In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the strike hit a location in the Beaufort Ridge area where “military activity was identified.” The army said the existence and use ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has alleged that Indian authorities have expelled scores of ethnic Rohingya refugees to Bangladesh and Myanmar without rights protections since May 2025. Authorities have arbitrarily detained several hundred more, mistreating some of them, said the New York-based rights body on August 29. In May, states in India governed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) initiated a ...

Thailand’s Constitutional Court on Friday removed Paetongtarn Shinawatra, who had already been suspended, from office as prime minister. In its verdict, the court ruled that although Paetongtarn did not show “dishonesty” and had demonstrated the “required integrity,” she violated ethics rules in a leaked phone call with Cambodian Senate President Hun Sen. During the phone call, the pair had discussed ...

The Trump administration has withdrawn former vice president Kamala Harris’s Secret Service security protection, a White House official said Friday. The administration terminated an extension approved by then-president Joe Biden for Harris, the defeated Democratic presidential candidate whose customary six-month period of protection as ex-VP ended July 21, CNN reported. A senior Harris aide told AFP that Harris was “grateful ...

At least 34 people have died and over 210,000 have been displaced as torrential rains pounded parts of Pakistan and India this week, triggering flash floods, landslides, and large-scale evacuations across the region. The death toll is expected to rise as rescue operations continue. In Indian-controlled Kashmir, a landslide in the Jammu region killed several Hindu pilgrims late Tuesday after ...