Author: ANC News Desk

Iran’s football team still lacks US visas and is not competing on ‘equal terms’, Tehran’s envoy to Mexico says.

Trump administration has used crime and drug trafficking to push for greater US military influence across Latin America.

Lebanese PM Nawaf Salam says ‘nothing can justify’ Israel’s military onslaught against ‘peaceful people’ in Lebanon.

Claude maker raises $65bn from investors ahead of expected initial public offering.

Proposed $250 bill would mark the first time a living person has appeared on US currency in more than a century.

A damaged mural of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is still visible from outside the Awami League’s abandoned central office on Shaheed Abrar Fahad Avenue, nearly two years after the fall of Sheikh Hasina’s government. Credit: Saqlain Rizve The main gate of the Awami League’s (AL) central office on Shaheed Abrar Fahad Avenue (previously known as Bangabandhu […]

Singaporean Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong examines a model of the Qinzhou Automated Container Terminal of Beibu Gulf Port, China’s first automated container terminal for sea-rail transportation, in Nanning, China, May 19, 2026. Credit: MDDI Photo by Kendrick Wong Singapore’s Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong flew into Nanning on May 18, accompanied by officials from […]

Credit: Depositphotos Singapore’s Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan yesterday wound up a rare visit to North Korea, part of a three-nation diplomatic tour that also includes a visit to its twin on the southern half of the Korean Peninsula. Balakrishnan arrived in Pyongyang on Tuesday for a meeting with Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui. According to […]

Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte appears via videolink during a pre-trial hearing at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands, Mar. 14, 2025. Credit: International Criminal Court Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have set November 30 as the ​start date for the trial of former Philippine ‌President Rodrigo Duterte, who is […]

China’s President Xi Jinping and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin during a welcome ceremony for Putin in Beijing, China, May 20, 2026. Credit: Russian Presidential Press and Information Office The meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing on May 20 offered an important insight into the contemporary character of Sino-Russian […]