Tens of thousands return home after south Syria ceasefire dealTens of thousands have returned to their homes in southern Syria since a ceasefire deal between regime ally Russia and rebels to end more than two weeks of deadly bombardment, a monitor said Sunday. T...
Riots ease as family of French police shooting victim plans lawsuitA relative calm began to return to the western French city of Nantes early Sunday after days of rioting over a police officer's fatal shooting of a black man, whose family plans to file a lawsuit over...
‘I don’t know where to start’: rains devastate Japan townMasanori Hiramoto stood before his traditional home in the Japanese town of Mihara, speechless at the destruction caused by record rains that have killed dozens of people. "I have lived here all my li...
Kuwait’s highest court sentences lawmakers to prisonKuwait's highest court on Sunday ordered an opposition leader and several lawmakers imprisoned for 3 and a half-year over the 2011 storming of parliament during the country's Arab Spring protests. The...
German interior minister says dispute with Merkel is historyGermany's interior minister says his bitter dispute with Chancellor Angela Merkel over migration is history, suggesting that the government is on course to reduce support for the far-right Alternative...
Italy’s anti-migrant minister steals partner party’s showHe skipped a Cabinet meeting to attend a horse race and took a dip in a Tuscan villa's swimming pool to show he didn't fear the Mafia. He leads the junior party in Italy's populist coalition governmen...
Trump faces ‘carnival of protest’ on trip to BritainA barrage of nationwide protests will greet US President Donald Trump's four-day trip to Britain from Thursday, with organisers hoping to stage one of the country's biggest demonstrations in decades f...
‘Race against time’ to rescue Japan flood victims: PMJapan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe warned Sunday of a "race against time" to rescue flood victims as authorities issued new alerts over record rains that have killed at least 48 people. The torrential...
Zimbabwe opposition chief eyes ‘Obama effect’ in historic pollZimbabwe's main opposition leader and presidential hopeful Nelson Chamisa believes he will ride a wave of youthful optimism to election victory, emulating Barack Obama, Emmanuel Macron and Justin Trud...
No rescue for Dakar’s homeless and mentally illOn Dakar's sunny avenues, troubled souls wander aimlessly alongside busy traffic, often muttering to themselves, sometimes begging, as the rest of the city ignores them. Clad in an electric-blue wooll...
Pompeo brushes off N Korea ‘gangster’ tag, says sanctions to stayUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday shrugged off North Korean accusations of "gangster-like" behaviour and said sanctions on Pyongyang would only be lifted with "final" denuclearisation. Speak...
West African states in joint fight against root crop ‘Ebola’Researchers from half a dozen states in West Africa have joined together in a battle against what one expert calls a root crop "Ebola" -- a viral disease that could wreck the region's staple food and...
Mexico’s next president aims to end foreign fuel imports in three yearsMexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will seek to end the country’s massive fuel imports, nearly all from the United States, during the first three years of his term while also boosting...
Child beggars fill Mosul streets a year on from ISEvery day little Mohammed Salem roams the streets of Mosul, left with no choice but to hawk tissues after his father was killed by jihadists who overran Iraq's second city. A year on from Iraqi forces...
Scientists defy ‘force of nature’ to unlock secrets of Hawaii volcanoDressed in heavy cotton, a helmet and respirator, Jessica Ball worked the night shift monitoring "fissure 8," which has been spewing fountains of lava as high as a 15-story building from a slope on Ha...
Haiti president tells protesters ‘go home’ after fuel hike suspendedHaiti's President Jovenel Moise called on protesters late Saturday to "go home" after the suspension of a fuel price hike that triggered violent protests and left at least two dead in the Caribbean na...
Turkey sacks 18,500 state employees in new decreeTurkish authorities ordered the dismissal of more than 18,500 state employees including police officers, soldiers and academics, in a decree published on Sunday. The Official Gazette said 18,632 peopl...
Nicaragua’s Ortega rules out early electionsNicaragua's President Daniel Ortega on Saturday ruled out early elections as demanded by opposition protesters in the country where more than 220 have died in unrest since April. "Here the rules are s...