8+ hour, 34+ min ago   (317+ words) MUSCAT, Sept 14 — Oman has announced the postponement of a meeting today between Iran and Gulf countries on the Strait of Hormuz, the major flashpoint in the Middle East war. Iran’s foreign ministry had said there would be a meeting hosted…...

6+ hour, 28+ min ago   (583+ words) SINGAPORE, Sept 14 — Cambodia and Thailand will face off before international mediators in Singapore this week in a long-standing dispute over valuable maritime resources, the latest spat between the feuding neighbours. Phnom Penh initiated a UN-backed conciliation process at the Permanent…...

8+ hour, 55+ min ago   (237+ words) LONDON, Sept 14 — The leaders of the main Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish separatist parties are to hold rare talks today aiming to advance their campaigns to break away from Britain, they announced in a statement. Scottish Nationalist Party leader John…...

7+ hour, 19+ min ago   (422+ words) JERUSALEM, Sept 14 — Israeli Culture Minister Miki Zohar called on Sunday for the award-winning directors of an Israeli-made Gaza documentary to be stripped of citizenship, accusing them of “treason against the state”. In NAZA, Israeli directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor…...

7+ hour, 25+ min ago   (270+ words) WASHINGTON, Sept 14 — A forty-year-old woman in the US state of Pennsylvania has died of measles, authorities said yesterday, bringing this year’s death toll from the highly contagious, preventable disease to three, amid declining vaccination rates. The Washington Post, citing Coroner…...

8+ hour, 25+ min ago   (282+ words) KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14 — The family of N. Kalaiselvi, a Malaysian reported missing in the Nepal landslide tragedy, hopes the relevant authorities will continue to provide updates on the search and rescue (SAR) efforts following the impending return of the Malaysian…...

9+ hour, 38+ min ago   (592+ words) BANJARMASIN, Sept 14 — Rescuers in Indonesia said at least six people were killed and 129 others were missing after a ferry capsized in rough seas yesterday, with one survivor recounting scenes of panic as passengers scrambled for life jackets. The Virgo Transport…...

9+ hour, 14+ min ago   (359+ words) NEW DELHI, Sept 14 — “I’m happy, very happy. The people are looking at me. At least they see me. My face, my face is being shown all around the world,” said M.Rehman, who played the piano for Prime Minister Datuk…...

9+ hour, 32+ min ago   (379+ words) PARIS, Sept 14 — The leaders of France and Canada will next week visit France’s North Atlantic territory of Saint-Pierre-and-Miquelon to underscore their support for national borders in the face of Donald Trump’s territorial ambitions, Paris said yesterday. The US president today…...

22+ hour, 31+ min ago   (706+ words) HONG KONG, Sept 14 — Chan Yuk-tong hoped to spend his remaining years in the row of small, blue-brick houses where he was born and raised, but the 71-year-old’s Hong Kong village home will soon be bulldozed to make way for a…...