PARIS: Conservative candidate Francois Fillon is fighting to save his political career in France’s presidential election after his campaign was hit by a...
PARIS: Conservative candidate Francois Fillon is fighting to save his political career in France’s presidential election after his campaign was hit by a...
PARIS: Emmanuel Macron seemed destined for a steady climb up the ranks of the French establishment when he decided to apply his skills...
PARIS: Marine Le Pen has brought the National Front from fringe status into the political spotlight and made herself a real contender to...
Colombo: Emergency workers dug through tonnes of garbage in Sri Lanka's capital Friday after a massive rubbish dump buried an estimated 40 homes...
Tributes were paid on Thursday to Sheila Abdus-Salaam, the first African-American woman to serve on New York's highest court. Police pulled Abdus-Salaam's fully...
Paris: French prosecutors have asked the European parliament to lift the immunity of far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, ratcheting up an investigation...
ACHIN, KABUL, Afghanistan: The top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan said on Friday that the decision to deploy one of the largest conventional...
BEIJING: Palestinians must be allowed to build an independent state, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Thursday after meeting Palestinian Foreign Minister...
BEIJING/PYONGYANG: China said on Friday tension over North Korea had to be stopped from reaching an “irreversible and unmanageable stage” as a U.S....
BEIJING: China’s national airline, Air China, suspended flights from Beijing to the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, from late on Friday, Chinese state broadcaster...
BUDAPEST: Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban is gambling that a new law targeting a top Budapest university will help shore up his core...
Tripoli: At least 97 migrants were missing after their boat sank yesterday off the Libyan coast, a navy spokesman said. Survivors said the...
RAMALLAH, West Bank: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas warned that he will take "unprecedented steps" to end the political division between his West Bank-based...
Kano, Nigeria: Nigeria is negotiating with the help of "foreign entities" for the remaining kidnapped Chibok girls held by Boko Haram Islamists, a...
Damascus: In the following AFP interview with Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, the questions were asked in English and he replied in English. Question...
Dortmund, Germany: German federal prosecutors said Thursday they had cleared the sole suspect in custody for a bomb attack against the Borussia Dortmund...
Tripoli: At least 97 migrants went missing after their boat sank Thursday off the Libyan coast, a navy spokesman said. According to survivors,...
Wellington: Heavy rain is lashing New Zealand's North Island as Cyclone Cook, called the worst storm in decades, makes landfall in the north-east....
