Seven foreigners in Fiji have been sent to hospital with suspected alcohol poisoning after reportedly drinking cocktails at a five-star resort's bar.
Four are Australian tourists, aged between 18 and 56. One is American and two are foreigners living (...)
The rate of medical assistance in dying – also known as euthanasia – has grown in Canada for the fifth straight year, albeit at a slower pace.
The country released its fifth annual report since legalizing assisted dying in 2016, which for the first (...)
A New Zealand warship that crashed into a coral reef before it caught fire and sank had been left on autopilot, an official inquiry has found.
Crew members of the HMNZS Manawanui had thought the ship was under manual control while sailing in Samoan (...)
The manager and seven staff of a backpacker hostel in Laos have been detained after six tourists died from suspected methanol poisoning.
Local media said that police brought in the 34-year-old manager of the Nana backpacker hostel in Vang Vieng and (...)
A second Australian teenager has died of suspected methanol poisoning, bringing to six the number of foreign tourists who have died after apparently drinking tainted alcohol in Laos.
The family of Holly Bowles, 19, said it was with "broken hearts" (...)
Global sales breakthrough: In October, the sales volume of OMODA&JAECOO reached 22,499 units.
The monthly sales volume has exceeded 20,000 units for six consecutive months. This monthly sales figure accounts for 20% of the group's export sales. (...)
More than 40,000 people have protested outside New Zealand's parliament against a proposed bill seeking to reinterpret the country's founding document between British colonizers and Māori people.
Tuesday's demonstration marked the end of a nine-day (...)
New Zealand's parliament was brought to a temporary halt by MPs performing a haka, amid anger over a controversial bill seeking to reinterpret the country's founding treaty with Māori people.
Opposition party MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke began the (...)
The Justice Department has charged a man for allegedly leaking highly classified US intelligence about Israel's plans for retaliation against Iran, according to court documents and a person familiar with the case.
Asif W. Rahman was indicted last (...)
New Zealand's Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has formally apologized to victims of abuse in care homes, following an inquiry into one of the country's biggest abuse scandals.
The historic apology, delivered in parliament, comes after a report (...)
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and New Zealand have signed a joint statement concluding a free-trade agreement (FTA) aimed at enhancing bilateral trade and economic cooperation by eliminating trade barriers.
The signing ceremony took (...)
Geoff Capes, the British shot put record holder and two-time world's strongest man, has died aged 75.
Capes set the record for the longest shot put by a British man with a distance of 21.68m in 1980.
In a statement, Capes' family said: "The family (...)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has accused India of making a "massive mistake" that Canada could not ignore if Delhi was behind the death of a Sikh separatist leader last year on Canadian soil.
Trudeau made the comments two days after Canadian (...)
RIYADH — The Council of Ministers highlighted on Tuesday the political and humanitarian endeavors being exerted by Saudi Arabia to address the current critical situations in the Gaza Strip as well as in Lebanon.
The Cabinet session, chaired by Crown (...)
New Zealand's navy lost its first ship since World War II after the HMNZS Manawanui sank on a reef off the coast of Samoa on Sunday creating a potential environmental disaster in waters used for fishing and tourism. The specialist dive and (...)
The FBI has used a court order to seize control of a network of hundreds of thousands of hacked internet routers and other devices that Chinese government-linked hackers were using to threaten critical infrastructure in the US and overseas, FBI (...)
A series of shootouts between rival tribes over a disputed gold mine has left at least 30 people dead in Papua New Guinea, police said on Monday.
Security forces have been given emergency powers to stop the fighting — including the use of "lethal (...)
The Pacific Islands are scattered across a vast area of ocean, with some of the clearest waters in the world, and pristine beaches and rainforests.
They are a magnet for tourism, which is vital for many of the countries' economies.
But the region's (...)
JEDDAH — United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO and the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) have selected and nominated Al-Wahbah Crater of Saudi Arabia as one among the top 100 geological heritage (...)
Mike Lynch, a prominent British tech entrepreneur and billionaire, was among the six people confirmed dead after a yacht he owned capsized off the coast of Italy on Monday.
His 18-year-old daughter remains missing as search efforts continue, (...)
New Zealand is set to extradite internet mogul Kim Dotcom to the United States after the country's justice minister gave his approval on Thursday.
Dotcom, who was born in Germany but has New Zealand residency, had been fighting his extradition to (...)
Police in New Zealand are racing to trace down sweets containing "potentially lethal levels of methamphetamine" after they were distributed by a charity in Auckland.
Up to 400 people may have received the sweets from Auckland City Mission as part of (...)
Gunmen stormed a helicopter and killed its New Zealand pilot shortly after it landed in Indonesia's restive Papua region on Monday, and they released two health workers and two children it was carrying, the Associated Press reported.
Glen Malcolm (...)
The 2024 Paris Olympics began with a rain-soaked opening ceremony that drenched athletes and spectators alike.
On Tuesday, however, they endured the exact opposite. Most of France is under heat warnings, with temperatures in Paris hitting 36C.
US (...)
New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon expressed regret on Wednesday after a public inquiry found some 200,000 children, young people and vulnerable adults were abused in state and religious care over the last 70 years.
Nearly one in three (...)
