Oslo Accords 25 years on: from hope to deadlockSealed with a handshake beamed across the world, the 1993 Oslo Accords were the first agreements between the rival Israelis and Palestinians and promised to end decades of deadly conflict. The deal's...
IS ambush kills 21 regime fighters in southern Syria: monitorAn ambush by the Islamic State jihadist group has killed 21 regime fighters in Syria's southern province of Sweida, a Britain-based war monitor said on Tuesday. The attack occurred late Monday in the...
UN says Myanmar waging ‘campaign against journalists’Myanmar, facing international outrage over the jailing of Reuters journalists for their reporting on a massacre of Rohingya Muslims, is conducting a "political campaign" against independent journalism...
Bangladesh photographer denied bail againA Bangladesh court refused bail for award-winning photographer and rights activist Shahidul Alam, whose month-long detention has triggered an international outcry, his lawyer said Tuesday. Alam was ar...
ICC ‘undeterred’ after US sanctions threatThe International Criminal Court on Tuesday said its work would continue "undeterred" after Washington threatened to prosecute its officials if Americans are charged with war crimes committed in Afgha...
‘Europe must face its policy failures to top rise of far right’Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Tuesday Europe could face an existential crisis over nationalism unless it owned up to its failure to handle a fiscal crisis and deal with an influx of migr...
Russia launches biggest ever war gamesRussia on Tuesday launched what it has called its largest every military drills, with hundreds of thousands of Russian troops taking part along with Chinese soldiers in a massive show of force that ha...
Over a million told to flee as Hurricane Florence stalks US East CoastPowerful Hurricane Florence was tracking towards the US East Coast Tuesday, prompting authorities to order upwards of one million people to evacuate the path of the extremely dangerous storm forecaste...
Behind the wire in Australia’s ‘Pacific Gulag’A cluster of prefabricated huts pokes out of Nauru's sweltering rocky landscape to reveal refugee settlement camp number five, a place defined by desperation and rarely visited by outsiders. Although...
Simple blood test may reveal your body’s inner clockEver feel like it's 7 am, even though the clock says 9 am? A team of researchers at Northwestern University said Monday they have designed a blood test that can measure a person's inner body clock wit...
US teens prefer remote chats to face-to-face meeting: studyAmerican teenagers are starting to prefer communicating via text instead of meeting face-to-face, according to a study published Monday by the independent organization Common Sense Media. Some 35 perc...
Afghan Taliban prepare for new peace talks with US — sourcesThe Taliban are preparing to send a delegation for further talks with US officials about ending the conflict in Afghanistan, two officials involved with the process said on Tuesday, adding that the me...
North Korea’s Kim asks Trump for another meeting in ‘very warm’ letterUS President Donald Trump received a "very warm, very positive" letter from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un asking for a second meeting and the White House is looking at scheduling one, White House sp...
Many California marijuana products failing safety testsNearly 20 percent of marijuana products in California have failed tests for potency and purity since the state started requiring the checks on July 1, a failure rate some in the industry say has more...
Jailed Lula to bow out of Brazil’s presidential race — sourcesJailed former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will throw in the towel on Tuesday in his legal battle to run in the Oct. 7 election and allow his Workers Party to announce running mate Fe...
GOP lacks votes — and appetite — to end ‘Obamacare’Arizona's new senator says he'd vote to repeal the nation's health care law. That's one additional Republican ready to obliterate the statute because his predecessor, the late Sen. John McCain, helped...
Ethiopian, Eritrean leaders visit border together to celebrate Ethiopian new yearThe leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea made a joint visit to celebrate the Ethiopian New Year on Tuesday with their troops on the border, in a further step toward warmer ties between two countries that f...
Student killed in twin bomb attack near Afghan girls’ schoolA boy was killed and four others wounded in a double bombing outside a school in restive eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, officials and witnesses said, in the latest violence to hit the country. The fi...
UK Conservative eurosceptics fail to agree Brexit plan B — FTA plan by eurosceptics in Prime Minister Theresa May's party to publish an alternative plan for the United Kingdom's future relationship with the European Union has fallen apart, the Financial Times r...
S Korea’s Moon urges ‘bold decision’ from Trump and KimSouth Korean President Moon Jae-in called for a "bold decision" by US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on denuclearisation Tuesday as the White House said it was planning ano...
US urges Cambodia to remove restrictions against opposition leaderThe United States urged Cambodia's government on Tuesday to drop all charges against opposition leader Kem Sokha, who was released on bail but has been placed under house arrest. Kem Sokha was release...