Jakarta airport and others reopen after volcanic ash crisis in Indonesia
Indonesia’s main airport and several other air travel hubs reopened early on Tuesday after days of closure due to ash from a volcanic eruption,...
Black boxes recovered from Amazon cargo plane that overran Miami runway
Investigators with the US National Transportation Safety Board said on Monday they had recovered the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder from an...
Burnham risks friction with Trump over Israeli West Bank settlement sanctions
Published: 6:42am, 8 Sep 2026Updated: 11:29am, 8 Sep 2026 UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s government is expected to ban trade with Israeli settlements in...
How Tokyo is widening regional defence ties to complicate Beijing’s Taiwan calculus
The risk of a conflict over Taiwan is shaping Japanese defence planning, with Tokyo shoring up security at home and abroad for a potentially...
Japan must reckon with how it views foreign workers
Japan will substantially raise its fees for residence permits next month. Depending on the period of stay applied for, renewing or changing one’s residency...
Netanyahu’s main challenger accuses Israeli PM of prioritising survival over security
Gadi Eisenkot, the main challenger to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accused the sitting premier of looking merely after his own political survival and...
Canada set to hit back at Trump tariffs, risking wider trade war
Canada is poised to impose tariffs of 15 per cent to 50 per cent on hundreds of products from the US on Tuesday, as...
New Panama Canal chief says El Nino could force further transit cuts
Published: 3:43am, 8 Sep 2026Updated: 4:21am, 8 Sep 2026 The number of ships sailing through the Panama Canal could be cut further due to...
Alleged killers of Australian, US surfers go on trial in Mexico
Published: 2:56am, 8 Sep 2026Updated: 3:00am, 8 Sep 2026 The suspected murderers of two Australian surfers and an American at a Mexican surfing hotspot...