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Hun Manet, the prime minister of Cambodia, inaugurated a contentious $1.7 billion canal project on Monday with the goal of creating a new route from the Mekong River to the ocean. Manet pledged to “finish it...

The government of New Zealand said on Sunday that it intends to lift a five-year-old prohibition on new oil and gas development, which infuriated oppositional politicians and environmental organizations. The moratorium that has only permitted exploration...

India’s defence ministry said Friday it believed it had found wreckage from an Indian Air Force An-32 transport plane which went missing over the Bay of Bengal in 2016 with 29 people on board.  “This discovery...

According to the Joint Chiefs of Staff of South Korea, North Korea has launched “several cruise missiles” into the Yellow Sea between China and the Korean peninsula, Yonhap news agency reported on Saturday. The launch occurred...

A total of 141 migrants from the sub- Sahara region were rescued at sea Saturday between Spain and Morocco, from a variety of makeshift vessels, the Spanish maritime rescue service said. Two boats carrying 86 people,...

UN member states on Tuesday kicked off two years of negotiations toward a treaty that would finally regulate the high seas, which contain vast troves of valuable plant and animal DNA. In the morning, two small...

How do bowhead whales in the unbroken darkness of the Arctic’s polar winter keep busy during breeding season? Why, they sing, of course. From late fall to early spring, off the east coast of Greenland, some...

A British Volvo Ocean Race crew member who fell overboard in the Southern Ocean is presumed lost at sea, organizers said on Tuesday. John Fisher, 47, had been competing with Hong Kong entry Team Sun Hung...

One year after the State of Israel introduced a law that required supermarkets to charge customers for the use of plastic bags, use of the bags has dropped by 80 per cent, and bag waste found...

Bali’s palm-fringed Kuta beach has long been a favourite with tourists seeking sun and surf, but nowadays its golden shoreline is disappearing under a mountain of garbage. Plastic straws and food packaging are strewn between sunbathers,...