Brussels fears of no-deal Brexit mount after British chaosThe frantic pace of Britain's political turmoil was so great that at one point even European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker didn't know what was happening. "Has he resigned?" a bewildered Juncke...
Friend or foe at NATO? Who knows when Trump comes to dinnerWhen Donald Trump walks into a NATO summit Wednesday, international politics are bound to become intensely personal — again. Since moving into the White House almost 18 months ago, the U.S. president...
US gas import crucial to US- Pak trade relationsWASHINGTON: Pakistan Ambassador to the US Ali Jehangir Siddiqui said importing more US natural gas is crucial to expanding US - Pakistan trade relations and Pakistan's energy supply. Speaking with US...
WhatsApp offers tips to spot fake news after India murdersWhatsApp took out full-page advertisements in Indian newspapers Tuesday offering "easy tips" to identify fact from fiction after a slew of recent murders spurred by hoaxes shared on its platform. The...
Iranians outraged over arrest of teenage girl for Instagram dancing clipsIranians on social media mocked clerical rulers on Monday after the hard-line judiciary arrested a teenage girl for posting on Instagram videos of herself dancing in her room. Critics of the arrest of...
Brazil’s green candidate aims to restore ‘credibility’Amidst corruption scandals, economic problems and the political instability surrounding the imprisonment of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, environmentalist presidential candidate Mariana...
Families speak after 20 years as Ethiopia restores phones to EritreaOn Tuesday morning, Ethiopian mechanic Mohammed Osman placed a phone call he had dreamt of making for 20 years. He called his mother Kedija, who was expelled from Ethiopia to Eritrea in 1998 after the...
Cyprus clifftop villas raise fears for endangered sealsIn a string of caves along the coast of Cyprus, a colony of monk seals -- the most endangered mammals in the Mediterranean -- has found refuge. But now environmentalists and residents are accusing dev...
Trump names Kavanaugh to Supreme Court, Senate battle loomsPresident Donald Trump on Monday nominated conservative judge Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court, a decision likely to cement a rightward tilt on the top judicial body with momentous implications...
‘Kennels’: Venezuela’s dangerous answer to transport chaosPacked inside a barred pick-up truck that looks like a mobile cage, passengers are risking their lives in Venezuela's perilous solution to a public transport crisis. Far from banning the "kennels", as...
Turkey’s Erdogan ushers in presidential system, appoints son-in-law finance ministerTurkey's Tayyip Erdogan ushered in the new, executive presidential system he had long campaigned for by putting his son-in-law in charge of the economy and promising greater overhaul of a country he h...
India’s top court reviews homosexuality banIndia's top court began reviewing Tuesday petitions against a colonial-era ban on homosexuality, in the latest chapter of a legal tussle between social and religious conservatives and more liberal-min...
Daughter of Japan sarin attack cult guru to get his ashesThe youngest daughter of Shoko Asahara, the executed head of the Aum Shinrikyo cult behind a deadly 1995 sarin attack, has agreed to collect his cremated remains, she said on Tuesday. Her statement co...
Japan rescuers go house to house as flood toll hits 141Rescue workers carried out house-to-house searches Tuesday in the increasingly unlikely hope of finding survivors after days of deadly floods and landslides that have claimed 141 lives in one of Japan...
UN urges probe into N Korea waitress ‘defectors’A dozen North Korean waitresses involved in a high-profile "defection" case two years ago did not know where they were going, the top UN human rights official on North Korea said Tuesday. The issue ha...
Trump doubles up as most followed world leader on Twitter: studyUS President Donald Trump is by far the most followed world leader on Twitter, with the Pope trailing him by some 4.5 million followers, a study showed Tuesday. The number of Trump's followers has "mo...