The radio station of Yemen’s Houthi-run interior ministry said on Monday the militia’s former war ally turned adversary, ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh, had been killed as fighting racked the capital Sanaa though there was no independent confirmation. Unverified footage circulated by Yemeni social media users appeared to a show corpse resembling Saleh. Armed militiamen unfurled […]

A crew on board a Cathay Pacific aircraft saw a North Korean missile blow up over the Sea of Japan last week, the airline told CNBC on Monday. Pyongyang launched the latest in a series of ballistic missiles last Wednesday in defiance of international sanctions and warnings against provocations. The rocket, which the regime said […]

Australia’s competition regulator said on Monday it would investigate whether U.S. online giants Facebook and Alphabet’s Google had disrupted the news media to the detriment of publishers and consumers. Like their rivals globally, Australia’s traditional media companies have been squeezed by online rivals, as advertising dollars have followed eyeballs to digital distributors such as Google, […]

Asia markets were set to cautiously begin Monday following a decline in U.S. stocks in their Friday session after a shock from a since-corrected report about the investigation into possible collusion between then-candidate Donald Trump and Russia. Australia’s SPI futures traded at 5,991, fractionally higher than the ASX 200’s last close at 5,989.75. Nikkei futures […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Sunday the country will not close its door to the global internet, but that cyber sovereignty is key in its vision of internet development. Xi’s comments were read by Huang Kunming, head of the Chinese Communist Party’s publicity department at the country’s largest public cyber policy forum in the […]

A siren that frightened Lorraine Godoy as a child will wail once again in Hawaii, decades after the Cold War-era threat of nuclear attack subsided. The state on Friday is dusting off the system intended to warn people of an impending nuclear strike just days after North Korea launched its most powerful missile yet. Godoy, […]

While the world watches North Korea test yet another missile in defiance of international sanctions and warnings, China continues to be a friend to Kim Jong Un’s regime. The relationship has prompted questions over how far Pyongyang would have to go before Beijing turned on its neighbor. After this week’s latest missile test, again over […]

BEIJING — “This is the empty bottle of my last North Korean beer. I sold it last night,” Cui Chengri lamented, speaking from his empty Beijing restaurant. “I need re-supply by tonight but I don’t know if there will be any.” The United Nations has slapped stronger sanctions on North Korea over the last year […]

The Hwasong-15 missile that North Korea launched on Wednesday is a new type of intercontinental ballistic missile which can fly over 13,000 km (8,080 miles), a South Korean defense ministry spokesman told Reuters on Friday. Earlier this week, Pyongyang said it had test-fired its most advanced missile, putting the U.S. mainland within range, and in […]

A powerful quake of magnitude 6.3 struck southeastern Iran near the city of Kerman on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake, which was relatively shallow, was centered 31 miles (50 km) northeast of Kerman, which has a population of more than 821,000. A magnitude 6.3 quake is considered strong and is capable of […]