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Powerful waves have chewed away large sections of Bali’s iconic Kuta Beach, raising fresh concern about the future of the Indonesian island’s most famous stretch of sand. Officials say the latest damage, driven by recent rough seas, has intensified a long-running problem of coastal erosion that experts warn is being worsened by extreme weather and…

Hongkonger Shirley Sung finally returned home on Sunday after being stranded in Dubai for a week and making eight failed attempts to secure a flight, ultimately paying HK$11,000 (US$1,406) to escape the Middle East conflict via Kuala Lumpur. The 30-year-old solo traveller, who had flown to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for a wedding, found…

Malaysia’s Zus Coffee has filed a police report to protect the privacy and well-being of an employee who was verbally abused and splashed with coffee by a customer in a recent viral video. The local coffee chain said the employee involved has been given paid time off to recover from the traumatising incident. “The police…

Inmates in Ecuador fought each other with guns and explosives in a riot that left 13 prisoners and a guard dead, police said. The mayhem was the latest in a series of bloodbaths to engulf gang-ridden, overcrowded prisons in a once peaceful country now at ground zero of the violent Latin American drug trade. An…

Donald Trump is clearly in a hurry to dominate the political narrative in his second term of office. He began 2026 with strikes in Syria against Islamic State groups, the kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, threats to intervene in Iran and the declaration that the US would take control of Greenland – by hook…

The United States Navy’s decision to shoot down an Iranian drone in the Arabian Sea is not in itself extraordinary.What is, however, is how routine such encounters have become and how thin the margin for miscalculation is in the Persian Gulf and its surrounding waters. According to US Central Command, an Iranian unmanned aerial vehicle…