Hopes rise as two Koreas open liaison office on North’s side of borderNorth and South Korea opened a liaison office on the North's side of their heavily militarised border on Friday, setting up a permanent channel of communication as part of a flurry of efforts to end t...
Gas explosions drive thousands from homes in Boston suburbsSome 8,000 people were prevented from returning home in Boston suburbs on Friday as investigators scrambled to find out the cause of dozens of gas explosions that killed at least one person and injure...
EU’s Juncker urges Swiss to wrap up treaty talksEuropean Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has urged Switzerland to quickly wrap up negotiations on a new bilateral treaty, saying time is running out as attention turns to the crunch phase of...
Spymaster dispute won’t fell German coalition: MerkelGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday her coalition government would survive a row over the future of the domestic intelligence chief following his comments on the hounding of migrants by far...
At summit, South Korea’s Moon seeks to play ‘chief negotiator’ between Kim, TrumpNext week's inter-Korean summit will test whether South Korean President Moon Jae-in can pull off his role of mediator and salvage stalled nuclear talks between Pyongyang and Washington. Moon will cro...
In a remote district, starving Yemenis live off leavesIn a remote pocket of northern Yemen, many families with starving children have nothing to eat but the leaves of a local vine, boiled into a sour, acidic green paste. International aid agencies have b...
US coast battered by wind, rain as Hurricane Florence closes inHurricane Florence battered the Carolinas early Friday with howling winds, life-threatening storm surges and torrential rains as it edged closer to the coast in what officials warned is a "once in a l...
Russian suspects’ claims over spy attack spark mockery in UKAn interview by two men accused by London of poisoning a former Russian spy in Salisbury has prompted mockery and derision on social media -- led by Britain's foreign minister. Alexander Petrov and Ru...
Venezuela’s Maduro seeks deals with ‘big sister’ ChinaVenezuelan President Nicolas Maduro hailed China as a "big sister" as he prepared to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping Friday, hoping to broker economic deals for his crisis-hit country. Maduro decl...
PM Abe says Putin’s comment shows desire for Japan-Russia peace treatyPrime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday repeated Japan's stance that a row over islands seized by Russian troops in the final days of World War Two must be settled before a peace treaty can be signed to f...
Turkey says Erdogan will meet Putin on Monday for Syria talksTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Monday, officials said, amid rising international concern over a looming Syrian government assault on a...
Afghan conflict could be deadlier than Syria in 2018: analystsThe Afghan conflict could overtake Syria as the deadliest conflict in the world this year, analysts say, as violence surges 17 years after the US-led invasion. The grim assessment contrasts sharply wi...
Young Russians taking the lead in anti-Putin protestsWhen almost all the protesters at recent anti-government rallies across Russia went home, teenagers and young adults were the only ones left on the streets. "In my circle, more and more people are get...
Indian man fills potholes out of love for dead sonDadarao Bilhore smoothes the road surface, rests his shovel, looks to the sky and prays for his son, one of thousands of Indians killed every year in accidents caused by potholes. Prakash Bilhore, a p...
Bangladesh unions reject $95 minimum wage for garment workersBangladesh unions staged street protests Friday to reject what they called an "inhuman" $95 a month minimum wage fixed by the government for the country's four million garment workers. Authorities sai...
Urgent preparations as super typhoon closes in on PhilippinesPreparations were in high gear in the Philippines on Friday with Super Typhoon Mangkhut set to make a direct hit in less than 24 hours, packing winds up to 255 kilometres per hour and drenching rains....