File picture for representation only. Tokyo: Japan accepted only 27 refugees last year and rejected almost all applications, officials said Saturday, as rights...
File picture for representation only. Tokyo: Japan accepted only 27 refugees last year and rejected almost all applications, officials said Saturday, as rights...
The Dene high school campus of the La Loche Community School is seen in an undated photo. Reuters By Rod Nickel and Julie...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) extended its travel warning to another eight countries or territories that pose a risk...
Miami: Dozens of original objects and furnishings from the Kennedys' "Winter White House" Florida estate go under the hammer Saturday, according to the...
Washington: Washington has stripped five Russian honorary consuls of their accreditation in response to the harassment of its own staff in Russia, the...
Chinese dredging vessels are purportedly seen in the waters around Fiery Cross Reef in the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea...
Paris: French President François Hollande is to ask parliament to extend the state of emergency imposed following the November Paris attacks for three...
Washington: Conservatives shaken by the rise of Donald Trump appealed to Republicans Friday not to support his presidential candidacy, uniting in a full-blown...
Monkeys take shelter under a rock in the snow in a zoo in Hangzhou in east China's Zhejiang province 21 January 2016. A...
BEIJING: China’s Foreign Ministry urged the Philippines on Friday to exercise “restraint” over “relevant parties”, after Filipino protesters said they planned a second...
Stockholm: Sweden's Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom (pictured) on Friday condemned China's detention of two Swedish nationals as "unacceptable". "We have said, through diplomatic...
A photo made available on 22 January 2016 shows Laos delegates and officials of Communist Party attend the congress in Vientiane, Laos, 21...
Helsinki: Nearly 70 percent of Iraqi asylum seekers in Finland whose applications were processed last year have abandoned their claims, with many returning...
Guatemala City: Former Guatemalan vice president Roxana Baldetti returned to jail Friday to await a possible trial on graft charges after spending more...
Davos: Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs of the Sultanate of Oman Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah met Friday with US Secretary of State...
EU, U.S. negotiating new data transfer pact Previous one quashed by EU court on fears of U.S. spying New office to take complaints...
Save the Children has $30 million of $100 million it needs Experts say drought is worst in decades, eclipsing 1984 Africa’s economic star,...
