Hardline interior minister rejects Merkel’s migration planGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel's hardline interior minister Horst Seehofer is unhappy with an EU-wide deal she struck last week to reduce migration, sources told AFP Sunday, sharpening a crisis that...
France pays tribute to Veil, Holocaust survivor with Pantheon burialFrance paid homage on Sunday to Simone Veil, a Holocaust survivor best known for legalising abortion in the 1970s as she joined the country's great citizens interred in the Pantheon in Paris. Veil, wh...
Italy’s far-right League holds annual rally in buoyant moodItaly's far-right League launched its annual gathering on Sunday with party head and hardline Interior Minister Matteo Salvini in triumphant mood after declaring the country's ports closed to NGO migr...
44 dead in bus crash in northern India: policeAt least 44 people were killed in northern India Sunday when a passenger bus crashed into a gorge in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, police said. “44 people have died in the accident. At least 3 o...
Eleven family members found dead in Delhi home: policeIndian police launched an investigation Sunday after a family of 11 was found dead inside their home in New Delhi. Police have cordoned off the home in Burari in the north of the capital where the bod...
Myanmar not safe for Rohingya returnees: Red Cross chiefThe head of the Red Cross on Sunday said it was not safe to return Rohingya refugees to their homes in Myanmar, where he described whole villages abandoned and destroyed. Peter Maurer toured strife-to...
Suicide bombing wounds 19 at Iraq ballot warehouseA suicide bombing Sunday targeting a warehouse in Kirkuk where ballot boxes from Iraq's May elections were stored wounded 19 people, days before a vote recount, a security source said. "Nine policemen...
Chasing dinosaurs in Myanmar’s conflict-ridden northAmber hunters" on a quest for a Jurassic Park-style discovery of dinosaur remains sift through mounds of the precious resin in Myanmar -- a lucrative trade that captivates palaeontologists but also fu...
‘Slow but sure’ progress towards less toxic tools to fight cancerJohn Ryan is just one of the miracles to emerge from the Johns Hopkins cancer unit in Baltimore. An immunotherapy treatment -- highly effective in a minority of patients -- saved his life after a lung...
Protesters flood US cities to fight Trump immigration policyThey wore white. They shook their fists in the air. They carried signs reading: "No more children in cages," and "What's next? Concentration Camps?" In major cities and tiny towns, hundreds of thousan...
Ukraine’s Roma under attack in wave of hate crimesBlood-stained clothes, shoes and kids' toys lie scattered in several old tents where a Roma man was murdered in an attack on a forest camp in western Ukraine last week. More than a dozen Roma people w...
Opportunities for Afghan money traders as Iran sanctions loomAziz Ahmad is one of the unlikely winners of the stand-off between the United States and Iran, turning his modest transport service into an international foreign exchange operation that is providing m...
In Austria, migrant trainees face explusion as attitudes hardenIn a small town in northern Austria, Sylvia Hochstoeger never imagined she would become the figurehead for a protest movement. But it was the threat of expulsion hanging over Shafi, an Afghan apprenti...
Scratchcard lottery craze grips BulgariaArmed with a coin, 96-year-old Stoyan Stoimenov from the small village of Tsurkva outside Sofia hunches over and tries his luck on yet another scratchcard. "I tell myself: 'I will win again.' It's not...
Thai divers make little progress in murky cave searchThai navy divers leading the search for 12 boys and their soccer coach in a cave have failed to make much headway in their effort to push through the murk of a kilometer- (half-mile-) long chamber to...
Jordan army sends aid to southern Syria displacedThe Jordanian army has sent cross-border deliveries of aid to displaced people in Syria's southern province of Daraa, where Damascus is pressing an offensive to oust rebels, officials said. "The Jorda...
African Union chief says ‘time to act’ on South SudanAfrican Union chief Moussa Faki Mahamat called Saturday for measures against the key players in the conflict in South Sudan, saying "we are used to them not respecting their commitments". "The situati...
Mexico elections centre on disgust with corruption, violenceMexicans vote Sunday in a potentially transformative election that could put in power a firebrand vowing to end politics and business as usual in a country weary of spiraling violence, unchecked corru...
Ritual sacrifice draws crowds to Indonesia volcanoThousands of locals and tourists climbed Mount Bromo early Sunday for a lavish religious ceremony that involves throwing ritual offerings into the smouldering crater of an active volcano in Indonesia'...