US, Mexico play up increased security cooperationSecretary of State Rex Tillerson insisted Friday the US and Mexico are bolstering cooperation in the fight against drug trafficking, brushing aside concerns about the impact of his boss Donald Trump’s...
Head of Nigeria’s anti-corruption court charged with briberyNigeria’s top judge handling corruption cases against public officials has himself been charged with bribery, court papers showed Saturday. Danladi Umar was accused by the country’s anti-graft body EF...
Puigdemont or plan B? Catalan separatists dividedCatalonia's separatist parties have to decide in the coming days whether to set their differences aside and back ousted, exiled leader Carles Puigdemont or seek an alternative. Unlike other major inde...
Maldives shuts parliament, resists order to free dissidentsMaldivian authorities Saturday announced an indefinite postponement of parliament as President Abdulla Yameen's regime resisted international pressure to comply with a landmark Supreme Court order to...
Scholar Tariq Ramadan charged with rape: legal sourceIslamic scholar Tariq Ramadan has been charged with rape, a judicial source said, following claims by two women that he assaulted them in French hotel rooms in 2009 and 2012. Ramadan, who was arrested...
25 militants killed in Afghan provinceMAIMANA: A total of 25 militants have been killed over the past 24 hours as the government forces attacked Taliban positions in the northern Faryab province, a police spokesman said Saturday. Four Tal...
Palestinian-American brings #MeToo campaign to West BankRAMALLAH: A young Palestinian-American is the driving force behind a nascent #MeToo movement in this patriarchal corner of the world, selling T-shirts, hoodies and denim jackets with the slogan "Not Y...
New French film raises ghosts of Nazi medical horrorsA new documentary about the scale of Nazi medical experiments has reopened old wounds in France as one of the country's leading universities investigates whether its stores still contain the remains o...
Perfect storm: China’s blizzard exposes flaws in rail, coal policiesBEIJING: China's worst blizzard this winter exposed a flaw in Beijing's drive to create remote coal mining hubs as it tries to streamline heavy industries and clear the air in populated regions: a lac...
Britain clamping down on suspect Russian money in UKRussian oligarchs suspected of corruption will be forced to explain their wealth in a new British clampdown on organised crime, Security and Economic Crime Minister Ben Wallace said Saturday. Official...
Sri Lanka probes corruption at national carrierSri Lanka has ordered a corruption investigation at its national carrier, including the controversial termination of a management deal with Emirates airline, the government said Saturday. President Ma...
African migrants injured in Italian drive-by shootings: policeROME: An Italian man opened fire on African migrants in the central city of Macerata on Saturday, injuring six people in the racially motivated attack before he was captured, police said. The shooting...
Brazilian judge orders passport returned to ex-president LulaA Brazilian federal judge on Friday ordered that former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's seized passport be returned. A lower court judge had ordered Lula -- sentenced last week to more than 12 y...
Low-lying Marshall Islands brace for tidal floodsEmergency services were put on standby Saturday in Majuro, as rising king tides threatened to flood the capital of the low-lying Marshall Islands. The national weather service warned "major inundation...
China charts course for modernized economyBEIJING: After decades of speedy advances, China is shifting its economic focus to high-quality development, with "developing a modernized economy" high on the agenda. Now an economic catchphrase, the...
India’s central probe agency to reopen decades-old arms scandalNEW DELHI: India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has moved the country's Supreme Court, seeking a fresh probe in a decades-old arms scandal case involving late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of m...