Macedonia lawmakers to vote on name change deal with GreeceMacedonia's parliament will vote Monday on whether to ratify a deal to change the country's name, in a bid to finally settle one of Europe's longest running disputes. Prime Minister Zoran Zaev faces a...
Irish border riddle confounds EU, UK as Brexit end nearsThe land around the small Irish town of Carrickcarnan is the kind of place where Britain's plan to leave the European Union runs right into a wall — an invisible one that's proving inordinately diffic...
Abe renews pledge to change Japan’s charter to boost troopsJapanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe renewed his pledge Sunday to push for a revision to the country's war-renouncing constitution, in which he wants the military explicitly mentioned. Speaking before a...
Cambodia resumes search effort with US for Vietnam War remainsCambodia has agreed to resume a search effort with the United States for the remains of Americans killed in the Vietnam War, the Foreign Ministry said on Sunday, after suspending the program a year ag...
Maldives risks sanctions as toppled Yameen fights backThe Supreme Court of the Maldives is to decide Sunday on President Abdulla Yameen's petition to overturn his defeat in last month's election, a move that could bring international sanctions. The tiny...
Journalist murder a toxic mystery in Malta one year onA year after a car bomb killed Maltese anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, those who ordered the murder remain free while others continuing her work in the EU's smallest state are brand...
Congolese migrants flood home, Angola denies claims of brutal crackdownCongolese migrants and officials said dozens of people were killed this month in neighbouring Angola in a crackdown on artisanal diamond mining, an accusation Angolan security forces strongly denied....
Filipinos deeply conflicted on Duterte’s drug warJailed drug user Bitoy Paras perks up when describing his support for Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's deadly war on narcotics, an unlikely fan of a campaign that has left Filipinos deeply confl...
Men as the real victims? After Kavanaugh, #HimToo gains attentionThe notion that it is dangerous to be an American man in the #MeToo era took off during the angry debate over Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. But tossing more fuel onto the fire were a sarcasti...
Brazil’s Bolsonaro ‘fomenting violence,’Brazil's far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro is "fomenting violence" and is a danger to democracy, his leftist rival Fernando Haddad told AFP on Saturday. Haddad, trailing in the polls ahe...
Salvadorans celebrate ahead of Romero’s canonizationHundreds of pilgrims from around Central America paraded in San Salvador Saturday to celebrate the impending canonization of slain Salvadoran cleric Oscar Romero, seen by many as a martyr of the left....
Hopes fade for more survivors of Hurricane MichaelThe hunt for missing people in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael early Sunday is turning into a search for the dead, as hope of finding more people alive fades in the Florida Panhandle, US officials...
Putin foe Navalny freed from jail after back-to-back sentencesRussian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was released from jail Sunday after three weeks behind bars for organising anti-Kremlin protests, his second spell in detention in as many months. The 42-year-...
Trump says US would be ‘punishing’ itself if it halts Saudi arms salesUS President Donald Trump said on Saturday the United States would be "punishing" itself by halting military sales to Saudi Arabia even if it is proven that Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed...
Australia to stop schools expelling gay studentsAustralia's conservative government will ban schools from expelling students over their sexuality, after a public outcry over the issue that threatened to sway the result of a crucial by-election and...
Merkel’s Bavarian allies brace for bruising in state electionChancellor Angela Merkel's Bavarian allies are heading for their worst state election result in more than 60 years in a regional vote on Sunday that is likely to increase tensions within Germany's fra...
Martyr priest, now Saint Romero, challenged power in El SalvadorIn 1980, a day after urging El Salvador's military to halt a string of abuses that would inflame a 12-year civil war in the impoverished country, Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero was shot dead while...
‘Zombie’ storm Leslie smashes into Portugal, SpainStorms packing nearly 180 kilometres-per-hour winds hit Portugal early Sunday leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power before carrying heavy rain on into Spain, authorities said. The regi...