Boris Johnson draws ire after calling burqa clad women ‘Letterboxes’LONDON: British Prime Minister Theresa May has scolded her former foreign minister, Boris Johnson, for saying that Muslim women who wear burqas look like letter boxes or bank robbers. Johnson, who res...
More than 70,000 homeless after deadly Lombok quakeMore than 70,000 people have been left homeless in the deadly earthquake that hit Lombok island, forced to sleep in makeshift shelters and lacking food, medicine and clean water, authorities said Wedn...
Malaysia’s Najib pleads not guilty to money laundering as charges pile upMalaysia's former Prime Minister Najib Razak pleaded not guilty to money laundering charges slapped on him on Wednesday, as the country's new government looked for answers to how billions of dollars w...
Canada to ask allies to help cool Saudi dispute; US offers no aidCanada plans to seek help from the United Arab Emirates and Britain to defuse an escalating dispute with Saudi Arabia, sources said on Tuesday, but close ally the United States made clear it would not...
Venezuela to try lawmakers for failed Maduro drone attackVenezuela's all-powerful constituent assembly is launching proceedings Wednesday to try opposition lawmakers over a failed "attack" on President Nicolas Maduro, who also accused exiled opposition lead...
Ex-city police chief claims role in Venezuela drone attackA former Venezuelan municipal police chief and anti-government activist says he helped organise an operation to launch armed drones over a military rally on Saturday that President Nicolas Maduro has...
In Venezuela’s hospitals, eat at your own riskHardly anybody likes hospital food but in Venezuela, it's so awful -- monotonous, starchy diets cooked in filthy conditions, and newborns fed intravenous solution for lack of baby formula -- that expe...
Despair as crippling drought hammers Australian farmersA crippling drought is ravaging vast tracts of Australia's pastoral heartlands, decimating herds and putting desperate farmers under intense financial and emotional strain, with little relief in sight...
Theresa May, Prince William mark centenary of key WW1 battleBritain's Prince William and Prime Minister Theresa May will join 2,000 guests at a service Wednesday marking the centenary of the Battle of Amiens, which rang in the beginning of the end of World War...
Child’s remains recovered in New Mexico compound where 11 children foundAuthorities in New Mexico have recovered the remains of a young boy inside the ramshackle compound where 11 other children were found alive but malnourished in a raid on the site last week, the Taos C...
California battles its biggest ever wildfire, Trump vows supportUS President Donald Trump struck a more conciliatory tone over California's raging wildfires on Tuesday, saying he was in constant contact with officials there, a day after blaming the state's environ...
Canadian UN peacekeepers return to Africa after 24 yearsSoaring over the Niger river before entering the savannah in northern Mali, a Canadian twin-engined military helicopter is making one of its first forays into the country. Two artillerymen are scannin...
Jailed ex-Guatemalan president in stable condition after ‘cardiac problem’Jailed former Guatemalan president Otto Perez was conscious and in stable condition and being evaluated by specialists at a hospital, the medical center's director said on Tuesday, after he suffered w...
Argentine abortion campaigners braced for crucial voteArgentine lawmakers face a crucial vote on Wednesday to decide whether or not to legalize abortion amidst fiercely polarized campaigns for and against the proposed bill. Last week the Senate approved...