Wars and conflicts

Thailand says Cambodia border fight is also a war on scammers

Thailand and Cambodia had also dismantled a scam centre with hundreds of trafficked foreign workers.

Thailand bombed Cambodian casino town on border, says Phnom Penh

Poipet is a major land crossing between the two nations that are engaged in renewed border clashes.

China seeks to mediate Thai-Cambodia clash that Trump says he ended

A house damaged after Thai military strikes in Cambodia's Banteay Meanchey province on Dec 16, amid clashes between Thailand and Cambodia along a disputed border.

While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, Dec 18, 2025

FILE PHOTO: A view of the dome of the U.S. Capitol building, during a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives on a stopgap spending bill to avert a partial government shutdown that would otherwise begin October 1, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. U.S., September 19, 2025. REUTERS/Kent Nishimura/File Photo

US ‘pressuring’ EU not to use frozen Russian assets for Kyiv, says senior Ukraine official

Rescuers standing near an apartment building hit by a Russian drone strike, in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, on Dec 16.

Ukraine’s Zelensky tells Europe: Use frozen assets to end Russia’s appetite for war

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made the comments in his Dec 17 evening address, ahead of ‍a crucial European Union summit on Moscow’s frozen ‍assets.

Germany approves landmark $75b in military purchases

Berlin is accelerating a defence spending ramp-up to face the threat posed by Russia.

Poland to start producing anti-personnel mines to lay along eastern border

The mines would be part of the “East Shield”, a defensive programme aimed at fortifying Poland’s borders with Belarus and the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.

Russian glide bomb attack on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia injures 26, governor says

Paramedics assisting a resident after an apartment building was hit by a Russian air strike on Dec 17, in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia.

Cambodia, Thailand agree to attend ASEAN Foreign Ministers meet in KL: Malaysia’s PM Anwar

Foreign ministers from South-east Asia meeting next week will seek to convince both countries that peace is imperative, said Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim.

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