The lightning Russia-Georgia warTen years ago, in August 2008, Russia and Georgia went to war over South Ossetia, a small separatist Georgian region which Moscow would later controversially recognise as independent, in the face of i...
Heatwave eases in Europe’s hotspot Portugal, wildfire ragesTemperatures in Portugal, at the crest of a European heatwave, began to ease from near record levels on Sunday, but a forest fire raged for a third day in the south, battled by 800 firefighters and 12...
Trump would fight any US special counsel subpoena in court: president’s lawyerIf US President Donald Trump is subpoenaed by a special counsel investigating contacts between the 2016 Trump election campaign and Russia, his lawyers will attempt to quash it in court, one of Trump'...
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards says it held war games in GulfIran's Revolutionary Guards confirmed on Sunday it had held war games in the Gulf over the past several days, saying they were aimed at "confronting possible threats" by enemies, the state news state...
Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim wins party presidencyMalaysian political leader Anwar Ibrahim won the presidency of the People's Justice Party (PKR) on Sunday, becoming next in line to take over as prime minister when current premier Mahathir Mohamad st...
A decade after Russia war, plight of Georgian refugees continuesStanding in a meadow in the sweltering heat and amid the chirping of grasshoppers, 84-year-old Dato Vanishvili looks through a barbed wire fence and sighs: "It's like living in a prison, here." Around...
IS killed hostage from Syria’s SweidaThe Islamic State jihadist group has executed one of dozens of Druze hostages abducted from Syria's southern province of Sweida last week, a journalist in the area and a monitor said Sunday. IS killed...
Saudi hackathon seeks high-tech fixes to Hajj calamitiesFuelled by caffeine, pizza and adrenaline, sleep-deprived programmers in a marathon Saudi contest this week explored high-tech solutions to prevent a repeat of past calamities in the annual hajj pilgr...
Hardline US ‘gundamentalists’ pressure NRA from withinAbout 100 protesters, many wearing T-shirts emblazoned with NRA (Not Real Activists), marched through the National Rifle Association's annual meeting in Dallas in May to slam the powerful gun lobby as...
Kenya, Tanzania mark bombings which introduced al QaedaKenya and Tanzania on Tuesday mark 20 years since the devastating US embassy bombings that thrust al Qaeda onto the global stage and went on to shape how a generation thinks about personal security. I...
For exiled novelist, Turkey ‘like 1930s Germany’Turkish novelist Asli Erdogan, living in exile in Germany as she risks a life sentence on terror charges at home, thinks the writing is on the wall: her country is sliding into fascism. The award-winn...
How blogger helped bring breastfeeding back to SerbiaWhen Branka Stamenkovic gave birth to her first child in Serbia, the experience was traumatic. Minutes after the baby was born, nurses bundled up the infant and whisked him away, separating the mother...
Hundreds of Philippine mums in show of support for breast-feedingHundreds of Philippine mothers simultaneously nursed their babies in public on Sunday, some of them two at a time, in a government-backed mass breastfeeding event aimed at combating child deaths. Abou...
Right-wing protesters and opponents square off in PortlandFour people were arrested late Saturday as scores of right-wing and anti-fascist demonstrators squared off in Portland, Oregon, where four people were injured in similar rallies on June 30, police sai...
Seventh person dies as northern California wildfires spreadA seventh person died in a northern California wildfire Saturday, officials said, as a couple of other fast-growing wildfires in the state expanded by more than 25 percent overnight and continued to s...
Bangladesh PM urges teen protesters to go home amid violenceBangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged students Sunday to go home as police fired tear gas at teenage protesters during an eighth day of unprecedented demonstrations over road safety which have...
Thousands march in Nicaragua against govt crackdown on doctorsThousands marched Saturday against President Daniel Ortega's government and his crackdown against doctors who treated injured protestors Managua calls terrorists. The demonstrators chanted "No more ab...
Palestinian teens reach finals of Silicon Valley app pitchFour Palestinian high school friends are heading to California this week to pitch their mobile app about fire prevention to Silicon Valley's tech leaders, after winning a slot in the finals of a world...
Islamic State claims responsibility for mosque bombing in AfghanistanIslamic State on Saturday claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing on a Shi'ite Muslim mosque in eastern Afghanistan that killed 39 people and wounded at least 80 others. In a statement carried by...