CAIRO--An Egyptian court on Monday acquitted 26 men accused of "debauchery" after their night-time arrest from a Cairo bathhouse for suspected homosexual activity,...
CAIRO--An Egyptian court on Monday acquitted 26 men accused of "debauchery" after their night-time arrest from a Cairo bathhouse for suspected homosexual activity,...
Afonso Dhlakama MAPUTO--Mozambique's main opposition party Renamo on Monday boycotted the opening of parliament in protest at last October's election results as its...
BANGKOK--A Rohingya woman has died after suffocating in a truck packed with migrants from the Myanmar Muslim minority group as they travelled through...
Philippine President MANILA--President Benigno Aquino urged the Philippine people on Monday to be alert against panic, stampedes or any attempts to sow chaos...
ri Lanka's new President Maithripala Sirisena has pledged to reverse many of the constitutional changes made by the former president. COLOMBO--Sri Lanka's new...
MANILA--Pope Francis will travel in a different kind of "popemobile" during his visit to the Philippines later this week -- an open "jeepney",...
JERUSALEM--France asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stay away from a weekend solidarity march in Paris but he ignored the request and...
ABOARD THE KRI BANDA ACEH WARSHIP,, INDONESIA--Indonesian divers Monday retrieved the flight data recorder of the AirAsia plane that went down in the...
President Ashraf Ghani KABUL--Afghanistan's new cabinet was unveiled on Monday after three months of wrangling following the election of President Ashraf Ghani and...
HONG KONG--A pro-democracy group on Monday announced plans for the first major street rally in Hong Kong since more than two months of...
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA--Fire has badly damaged a historic hotel in Ethiopia's capital made famous as the setting for Evelyn Waugh's 1938 satirical novel...
Cambodian PM PHNOM PENH--Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday defended controversial Chinese-funded hydro-electric dams as he opened the energy-starved country's largest-ever power...
MADRID--The Spanish trial of 35 members of Batasuna, the banned political wing of the armed Basque separatist group ETA, was suspended Monday after...
LONDON--A proposed British law that would force universities to take action to stop young people being drawn into violent extremism risks "seriously inhibiting"...
MIAMI--SpaceX's unmanned Dragon cargo ship arrived Monday at the International Space Station, carrying 2.6 tons of food and supplies for the astronauts at...
Petro Poroshenko Kiev--Foreign ministers from Moscow and Kiev meet their French and German counterparts in Berlin on Monday to arrange a Ukrainian peace...
Angela Merkel Berlin--Chancellor Angela Merkel and most of her cabinet will join a rally for an "open and tolerant Germany" organised by Muslim...
Beirut--Security forces raided Lebanon's notorious Roumieh prison on Monday after discovering that inmates were linked to a deadly bomb attack last week, security...
