The meeting, which lasted about an hour and was described as “cordial” in a brief Vatican statement, comes nearly a month ...

Pope Leo XIV appealed on Wednesday for the international community not to abandon the people of Myanmar as the country’s ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — The Association of Southeast Asian Nations welcomed East Timor as its newest member Sunday, which its prime minister said was a “dream realized” for the tiny nation. Meanwhile ...

Timor-Leste is Asean’s newest member. By population, Southeast Asia’s smallest nation first applied for membership in 2011 ...

East Timor has been formally admitted into the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in the group’s first expansion since the 1990s KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- East Timor’s prime minister told leaders ...