BEIJING: A cat shop in Shenzhen, a city in China’s southern Guangdong province, recently sparked public criticism after launching…

UNITED NATIONS: North Korea is flouting UN sanctions by exporting coal, iron, steel and other commodities banned under UN…

TOKYO: “Oil-like” blobs are washing up on the beaches of several southern Japanese islands, officials said Friday, raising fears…

WASHINGTON: The US military wants to revamp its nuclear arsenal and develop new low-yield atomic bombs, largely in response…

THE HAGUE: The UN’s highest court drew new maritime boundaries between Costa Rica and Nicaragua on Friday seeking to end…

DUBAI: An independence push by southern separatists who have seized the Yemeni government’s de facto capital has laid bare deepening…

JAKARTA: A plan to use satellite imagery and aerial mapping to protect Indonesia’s peatlands — a vast carbon sink…