Florida communities scramble to help displaced Puerto RicansKISSIMMEE: At Leslie Campbell’s office in the central Florida city of St. Cloud, the phone will not stop ringing. Director of special programs for the Osceola County School District, Campbell helps en...
Africa startled by Trump’s sudden and vulgar attentionJOHANNESBURG: Africans woke up on Friday to find President Donald Trump had finally taken an interest in their continent. It wasn't what people had hoped for. Using vulgar language, Trump on Thursday...
Philippine police chief says cops could soon make drugs war returnMANILA: Police anti-narcotics operations notorious for their deadly outcomes could make a comeback in the Philippines' war on drugs, although bloodshed should be avoided and abuses would not be tolera...
Japan to curb asylum seekers’ right to work from MondayTOKYO: Japan will limit asylum seekers' right to work from Monday, making changes to its refugee system that are likely to swell the numbers of those in detention centres, the justice ministry said, p...
Turkey reinstates over 1,800 civil servants after post-coup purgesTurkish authorities on Friday reinstated more than 1,800 civil servants in an emergency decree after finding they had no links to a group blamed for the 2016 failed coup. The public sector employees w...
Swiss mountain town Davos relishes its turn in Trump spotlightDAVOS: The Swiss Alpine town of Davos is used to celebrities and high-rollers, but even it is relishing the new challenge posed by U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to attend the World Economic F...
Trump cancels London trip for embassy openingUS President Donald Trump announced Friday he will no longer attend the opening of the new US embassy in London, a move welcomed by critics in Britain who had planned mass protests. He wrote on Twitte...
China shuts Marriott website over Tibet error, scolds other firmsAuthorities in China have shut down Marriott's local website for a week and scolded Delta, Zara and a US medical firm Friday for listing Tibet, Taiwan and Hong Kong as separate countries. Alongside Ma...
Czechs weigh pro-Russian incumbent against liberals for presidentCzechs head to the ballot box Friday and Saturday in a bellwether presidential election pitting anti-Muslim, pro-Russian incumbent Milos Zeman against his more liberal pro-European rivals. Polls show...
Deadly ‘long-lost disease’ rages through Rohingya campsIn a makeshift bamboo clinic, small children struggle to draw breath through surgical masks, victims of a forgotten but deadly disease that has torn through the teeming Rohingya refugee camps in Bangl...
Four judges of India’s top court criticize its functioning in rare public spatNEW DELHI: Four justices of India’s top court on Friday criticized its distribution of cases to judges and raised concerns about judicial appointments, in an unprecedented public airing of problems at...
‘Frost Boy’ stirs poverty debate in ChinaA viral photo of a Chinese boy whose hair is encrusted with ice after his hour-long walk to school in freezing temperatures has stirred debate about the impact of poverty on children in rural regions....
Merkel party a step closer to new coalition governmentChancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives reached a "breakthrough" deal Friday with Germany's second biggest party, the Social Democrats, toward building a new coalition government, sources close to th...
Translating Trump: A ‘dirty’ job but someone has to do itUS President Donald Trump's use of the word "shithole" to describe some countries has sparked fury in some quarters and left many media scratching their heads on whether to repeat the slur. But spare...
China’s capital issues first major smog alert of winterBEIJING: Beijing issued its first major smog alert of the winter for the capital, triggering stringent measures to curb output of heavy industry as plunging temperatures spurred heating demand and the...
Turkey slams top court for ‘wrong decision’ on journalistsTurkey's deputy prime minister on Friday slammed as "wrong" a ruling by the Constitutional Court that two veteran writers arrested in the wake of the failed coup should walk free as their rights had b...
Stricken Iranian oil tanker drifts into Japan’s economic zoneTOKYO: A stricken Iranian oil tanker drifted into Japan's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) on Wednesday afternoon, a spokesman for Japan's Coast Guard told Reuters on Friday, as strong winds pushed the b...
Four killed in Venezuela food looting violence: oppositionFour people were killed and 15 injured on Thursday in violence linked to food looting in Venezuela, according to members of the opposition and the local press. It brought to six the number of deaths t...
Fresh Tunisia arrests over wave of unrestTunisian authorities said Friday the number of people detained in a wave of violent protests had risen to nearly 800, as fresh unrest over austerity measures hit a provincial town overnight. Activists...