Exiled Nobel laureate María Corina Machado has returned to Venezuela for the first time since December and is testing the U.S.-backed government.

The discovery of five baby orangutans abandoned on a plantation in eastern India is highlighting the country’s growing role as a destination for trafficked apes. Experts say wealthy

Islanders are seeking slavery reparations from Britain, a formal apology for its role in the slave trade and greater independence from the former colonial power. The Bahamas National Reparations Committee said it already knows what awaits the Caribbean as King Charles III and Queen Camilla prepare for this week's trip: “Schools emptied of children who will stand in the sun and wave for the Crown that has taken everything from their ancestors and comes back smiling.

Flash flooding has inundated several areas of Thailand's island of Phuket after heavy rain overnight. Officials say all three island districts, including its capital of Phuket City, were

Australia’s Parliament has resumed with enhanced security and paid tribute to a member who was injured last week in an alleged act of political violence.

Former Japanese Prime Minister ⁠Yasuo ⁠Fukuda, who used his brief ⁠period in office to seek closer ties with Asian ​neighbours, particularly China, has died at the age of 90, the Nikkei business daily ‌reported on Monday.

The Bank of Japan ​will likely declare victory in a nearly 14-year battle to hit its 2% inflation target at its policy meeting on Friday and ‌emphasise the risks prices could overshoot, signaling the chance of a rate hike as soon as December.

Japanese prosecutors have indicted a US Marine on suspicion of murdering and robbing a woman in Okinawa earlier this month, multiple Japanese media outlets have reported, in a case that has prompted renewed outrage over the conduct of US troops in the country.