Friend or foe? Assad quietly aids Syrian Kurds against TurkeyALEPPO: Syria's US-backed Kurds are getting indirect help from an unlikely source in their war against Turkey in the northwestern region of Afrin: President Bashar al-Assad. Pro-government forces and...
UN rights chief calls on PNG to safeguard Australia camp refugeesPapua New Guinea is responsible for the human rights of refugees sent to a remote island by Australia, the UN human rights chief has said, as advocates warn the men are living in fear of violence from...
Hard road ahead for Olympics detente: analystsOn September 3 2017 North Korea detonated its most powerful nuclear blast to date, sending tensions on the peninsula higher than a mushroom cloud. Less than six months later the two sides' heads of st...
Trump laments ‘shattered’ lives after aides resignPresident Donald Trump said Saturday that lives were being "shattered" by allegations that may be false after two of his White House aides quit over domestic abuse accusations. Trump's White House has...
UK’s Johnson urges ‘independent’ probe of Rohingya crisisBritain’s foreign minister Boris Johnson stopped off in Myanmar on Sunday to press Aung San Suu Kyi on the need for an independent probe into violence in Rakhine state, as the country faces mounting p...
India, China vie for influence as crisis unfolds in MaldivesNEW DELHI: As a political crisis plays out in the Maldives, a quiet tug of war is taking place around it, with heavyweights China and India vying for strategic dominance in the picturesque Indian Ocea...
Hong Kong police probe deadly bus accidentHong Kong police said Sunday they were investigating a deadly bus accident that left 19 people dead and scores more injured, with the bus driver arrested for dangerous driving. The double-decker bus o...
Sri Lanka coalition suffers humiliation at local voteSri Lanka’s ruling alliance was humiliated Sunday in local elections seen as a test of its leadership and the party of ex-president Mahinda Rajapakse was on track for a shock landslide victory, result...
Police shoot man during sword attack at Indonesian churchIndonesian police shot and wounded a man who attacked a church congregation with a sword during Sunday Mass, seriously injuring four people including a priest and destroying Christian imagery. Around...
S Africa’s ANC to meet today as Zuma deadlock tightensThe top decision-making body of South Africa's ruling ANC will meet on Monday following days of talks over President Jacob Zuma's expected departure from office, a party spokeswoman said Sunday. "An N...
French mum, ex-partner get 20 years for 5-year-old’s murderA French appeal court on Sunday sentenced a mother and her ex-partner to 20 years for the brutal murder of her five-year-old daughter whose disappearance in 2013 shocked the country. Cecile Bourgeon,...
Iranian-Canadian environmentalist dies in Iran prisonIran’s academic community was in shock Sunday following the death of renowned environmentalist Kavous Seyed Emami, an Iranian-Canadian, who authorities claimed committed suicide in prison a fortnight...
Myanmar says soldiers, police facing action over village killingsAction will be taken against 10 members of Myanmar’s security forces in connection with the killing of captured Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state, a government spokesman said on Sunday, adding it was...
Search for Taiwan quake victims ends as toll rises to 17Rescuers Sunday ended their search of a Taiwan building partially toppled by a 6.4-magnitude earthquake as the last trapped pair were presumed dead, bringing the final death toll to 17. Thousands of e...
Woman killed, 12 injured in Beijing mall knife attackBEIJING: A woman was killed and 12 other people injured after a man carried out a knife attack in a mall in a busy shopping district in the Chinese capital, Beijing, police said on Sunday. Beijing pol...