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SINGAPORE, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has dwindled to 33 vessels from Monday to Thursday this week, data showed, versus 50 in the week-ago period, as markets watch...

BANGKOK, Aug 7 (Reuters) - A teacher was killed and four other people injured in a shooting at a school in Thailand, where the gunman - a student - has killed himself, police said on Friday. Those inj...

By Chalinee Thirasupa and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANG KRUAI, Thailand, Aug 7 (Reuters) - A Thai teenager killed at least five people and himself at a school outside Bangkok on Friday after fatally shoot...

By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON, Aug 7 (Reuters) - New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said this week he was open to a referendum on the country's electoral system, sparking vigorous debate, with ...

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday a man charged in connection to a mid-July fire at the Northeast Philadelphia Islamic Center had targeted...

By Lucy Craymer SUVA, Fiji, Aug 7 (Reuters) - The Solomon Islands is repairing ties with traditional partners including the U.S. and Australia while maintaining its "friends to all and enemy to none" ...

By Renju Jose SYDNEY, Aug 7 (Reuters) - New Zealand's ruling centre-right coalition may retain a razor-thin parliamentary majority if an election were held now, a poll showed on Friday, but a surge fo...

By Yimou Lee and Fabian Hamacher NEW TAIPEI, Taiwan Aug 7 (Reuters) - Taiwanese troops on Thursday practiced defending a bridge at a critical chokepoint that could give Chinese forces a shortcut to ta...

By Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY, Aug 6 (Reuters) - The former governor of Mexico's southern Guerrero state has been arrested for allegedly ordering the destruction of evidence that could have helped shed ...

By Lucy Craymer SUVA, Fiji, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Pacific Island foreign ministers failed to agree on Friday to a joint response to China's missile launch in July, with further discussions expected at the...