Torrential downpours have caused widespread flooding across parts of Indonesia, including in the capital, Jakarta, where the floodwaters are chest-deep in places. The...
Torrential downpours have caused widespread flooding across parts of Indonesia, including in the capital, Jakarta, where the floodwaters are chest-deep in places. The...
Geneva: A probe into whether Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte ran a death squad is making progress following crucial whistleblower testimony this week, the...
Paris: A senior Socialist minister said yesterday he might back centrist Emmanuel Macron in France’s presidential election, a blow to his party’s official...
Boracay: The Philippines' top diplomat said yesterday it remains to be seen whether China will cooperate fully in ongoing efforts to craft a...
Sydney: A pilot and four American passengers were killed yesterday when a small plane crashed in to the roof of a shopping mall...
KIEV: A Ukrainian lawmaker who proposed an alternative plan for peace with Russian-backed separatists to U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration told Reuters on...
Tehran: Iran's supreme leader yesterday used the podium of a pro-Palestinian gathering in Tehran to lash out at Israel, calling the Jewish state...
Jerusalem: A senior Palestinian journalist has been released after 10 months in an Israeli jail without charge, he said. Omar Nazzal, 55, was...
Geneva: Upcoming Syria peace talks remain focused on negotiating a "political transition" in the war-ravaged country, the UN mediator's office said yesterday, following...
JUBA: South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir yesterday promised aid agencies safe access to hunger-stricken civilians, a day after his government declared a famine...
Kampala: Ugandan authorities have seized more than a tonne of ivory, chopped into small pieces and treated with a chemical intended to prevent...
Tel Aviv: A young Israeli soldier who killed a wounded and incapacitated Palestinian assailant was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment yesterday, in a...
Baku: Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev yesterday appointed his glamorous wife as first vice-president, the latest move seen as tightening the family's iron grip...
Tokyo: A Japanese kindergarten known for its nationalist curriculum has apologised after coming under fire for hostile comments about Korean and Chinese parents....
Bali: Indonesian prosecutors sought eight-year prison sentences yesterday for a British man and an Australian woman accused of killing a police officer on...
Tokyo: A Japanese zoo has culled 57 native snow monkeys by lethal injection after finding that they carried genes of an "invasive alien...
Tangi: At LEAST seven people were killed when multiple Taliban suicide bombers attacked a court complex in northern Pakistan yesterday, the latest in...
Rome: Hundreds of taxi drivers protested in Rome yesterday as a strike over delays to Italian legislation regulating Uber and car-hire services entered...
