China's special climate envoy Xie Zhenhua delivers a speech at the COP27 climate conference at the Sharm el-Sheikh International Convention Centre, in Egypt's Red Sea resort city of the same name, on November 8, 2022. Photo: AFP
09 November 2022
China's top climate envoy told a UN summit Tuesday his country would not retreat from the...
This picture released on November 8, 2022 by the Vietnam News Agency shows crew members of the Japan-flagged 'Helios Leader' vessel rescuing suspected migrants from Sri Lanka on board the Myanmar-flagged 'Lady 3' fishing vessel after it began taking on water, around 250 nautical miles off Vung Tau on Vietnam's southern coast. Photo: AFP
09 November 2022
More than 300 suspected migrants from Sri Lanka were rescued off the coast of Vietnam...
In this file photo taken on May 3, 2022, Theary Seng (R), a US-Cambodian lawyer and activist then facing treason and incitement charges, walks in the street in front of Phnom Penh municipal court ahead of her hearing in Phnom Penh. Photo: AFP
09 November 2022
A jailed outspoken American-Cambodian activist has begun a one-week hunger strike to...
A European flag flies at half-mast during a meeting of EU energy ministers to find solutions to rising energy prices at the EU headquarters in Brussels on Septembre 9, 2022. Photo: AFP
09 November 2022
The EU on Tuesday extended its sanctions on Myanmar's junta, targeting 19 more...
A health worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) walks past a fenced residential area under lockdown due to Covid-19 coronavirus restrictions in Beijing on June 20, 2022. (Photo by Noel Celis / AFP)
08 November 2022
China reported its highest daily Covid caseload in six months Monday, despite grinding...
Philippines' Secretary of Interior Benjamin Abalos Jr., (R) gestures with Philippines' Justice Secretary Jesus Remulla (L) during a press conference announcing suspects in the killing of radio journalist Percival Mabasa, at the Department of Justice in Manila on November 7, 2022. Photo: AFP
08 November 2022
Philippine police accused the country's prisons chief Monday of ordering the killing of a...
Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan talk with media representatives at a hospital in Lahore on November 4, 2022, a day after an assassination attempt on him during his long march near Wazirabad. Photo: AFP
07 November 2022
The assassination attempt on former prime minister Imran Khan and his accusation it was a...
UN's climate change Communications Officer Alexander Saier, UN's climate change executive secretary Simon Stiell, and COP27 President Sameh Shoukry listen to questions following the opening ceremony of the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, more commonly known as COP27, at the Sharm El Sheikh International Convention Centre, in Egypt's Red Sea resort of the same name. Photo: AFP
07 November 2022
The UN's COP27 climate summit kicked off Sunday in Egypt with warnings against...
 China's President Xi Jinping stands by national flags at the Schloss Bellevue presidential residency in Berlin. Xi Jinping secured a historic third term as China's leader on October 23, 2022 and promoted some of his closest Communist Party allies, cementing his position as the nation's most powerful leader since Mao Zedong. Photo: AFP
06 November 2022
China said on Saturday that it would "unswervingly" stick to its zero-Covid policy,...
Egyptians ride camels at the Giza pyramids necropolis on the southwestern outskirts of the Egyptian capital Cairo on December 18, 2019. Photo: AFP
06 November 2022
Leaders buffeted by the geopolitical crosswinds or war and economic turmoil meet in Egypt...
Malaysia's former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, chairman of Gerakan Tanah Air (Homeland Movement) party, waits to enter the nomination center in Langkawi Island on November 5, 2022. (Photo by Arif Kartono / AFP)
06 November 2022
Mahathir Mohamad, the nearly 100-year-old elder statesman of Malaysian politics, filed...
Riot police advance on a street in Yangon as members of the press take photos during a protest against the military coup on February 26. Photo: EPA
05 November 2022
A new report released on 2 November by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)...

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