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Ruling party chooses the former COVID minister to replace Jacinda Ardern as its new leader and become New Zealand’s next prime minister.

An Asian farm worker was in custody on Monday after seven of his colleagues were killed in front of children at sites in California, days after a mass shooter killed 11 people at a Lunar New Year celebration near Los Angeles.

Former pope Benedict XVI has died at the age of 95, the Vatican announced Saturday, almost a decade after he became the first pontiff to resign in six centuries.

Delegations to a regional meeting on labour issues point out that migrant workers are still among the most vulnerable groups in the labour markets of the Asia and the Pacific and the Arab States.

Government, employer and worker representatives from Asia and the Pacific and the Arab States gather in Singapore to shape priorities to drive employment growth in both regions.

The Asia-Pacific region and the Arab states labour markets have partially rebounded from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic yet the recovery has not been inclusive with underlying weaknesses remains to be solved, said ILO Director-General Gilbert F. Houngbo on Tuesday.

The recent climate talks in Egypt have left us with a sobering reality: The window for maintaining global warming to 1.5 degrees is closing fast and what is on the table currently is insufficient to avert some of the worst potential effects of climate change. The Nationally Determined Contribution targets of Asian and Pacific countries will result in a 16 per cent increase in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 from the 2010 levels.

At least 130 people were killed in India after a colonial-era pedestrian bridge collapsed, sending scores of people tumbling into the river below, police said Monday.

At least 149 people have been killed and 76 others injured in a deadly stampede in Seoul's Itaewon district as huge crowds of partygoers, many in their late teens and 20s, converged in the entertainment district for late-night Halloween celebrations

Former finance minister Rishi Sunak on Monday won the battle for leader of Britain's Conservative party and will become the country's first prime minister of colour

Indonesian police said on Sunday that 127 people had died and 180 were injured after a stampede following crowd trouble at a football match in the province of East Java overnight.

Inside the village's conference hall on a Monday afternoon, Josh Tseng, a person with visual impairment, and his colleague Aaron Yeoh distributed special goggles to a group of Impact Media fellows on a visit to the facilities. 

The 22nd meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) started in the city of Samarkand on Thursday.

Charles III was formally proclaimed Britain's new king by the Accession Council on Saturday in a history-laden ceremony following the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth II.

Britain's Charles III will officially be proclaimed king in a ceremony on Saturday, a day after he vowed in his first speech to mourning subjects that he would emulate his "darling mama", Queen Elizabeth II.

Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-serving monarch in British history and an icon instantly recognisable to billions of people around the world, died on Thursday. She was 96.