All eyes on OPEC as Trump gripes over pricesJust nine days before a big OPEC meeting, US President Donald Trump joined the oil-market fray Tuesday, blaming the group for high prices. "Oil prices are too high, OPEC is at it again. Not good!" the...
In final debate, Mexican presidential favourite says a NAFTA fail ‘not fatal’The collapse of the North American Free Trade Agreement would not be fatal for Mexico, the leftist presidential favorite said on Tuesday, while keeping his cool under attack from rivals in the last te...
Iran deal comparisons cloud Trump’s North Korea summitPresident Donald Trump's triumphant assertions about the success of the unprecedented Singapore summit are being met with skepticism and outright derision from critics seizing on the contradiction bet...
‘Pyongyang-bound’ Trump says world avoided ‘nuclear catastrophe’Donald Trump accepted an invitation from Kim Jong Un to visit North Korea during their historic summit, Pyongyang state media reported Wednesday, as the US president said the world had jumped back fro...
In Iraq’s Mosul, women desperate for news of ‘disappeared’Every Friday since Mosul was prised from the Islamic State group's clutches last July, women gather in the Iraqi city's Al-Minassa Square, desperate to learn the fate of husbands and sons. Dressed in...
Top Nicaragua civic group calls strike as anti-Ortega fury growsNicaragua's top civic alliance called Tuesday for a nationwide 24-hour strike to protest "extreme conditions" under President Daniel Ortega, who has yet to decide on reviving talks over the crisis tha...
Lebanon foreign minister escalates refugee row with UN agencyLebanon's caretaker foreign minister escalated his row with the UN refugee agency UNHCR on Wednesday, accusing it at a news conference of working to stop refugees from returning to Syria. UNHCR has de...
Greeks divided on proposed Macedonia name dealGreeks were divided Wednesday on a proposed compromise deal to end a nearly three-decade name row with Macedonia, with some questioning its benefits and others pointing out that obstacles remain. The...
Italy threatens to cancel Conte-Macron meet unless France apologisesItaly's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Wednesday that without an "official apology" from France, a planned meeting between Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and French President Emmanuel Macron on...
Republican Trump critic ousted in closely-watched primaryA US Republican congressman and Donald Trump critic who survived a sex scandal lost his re-election bid Tuesday hours after the president launched a scorching personal attack against the lawmaker from...
S Korea newspapers welcome summit as ‘first step’ towards peaceMost South Korean newspapers reacted with cautious optimism Wednesday to the historic meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un in Singapore, although one conservative daily denounced the agreement...
Paris hostage-taker moved to psychiatric hospitalA man who took two people hostage in central Paris was transferred to a psychiatric ward Wednesday, a day after the four-hour standoff in which he doused a woman in petrol and held a knife to her thro...