17 killed in Florida school shooting by former student: sheriffAuthorities in Florida could offer no explanation Wednesday night as to why a former student armed with an AR-15 rifle opened fire at a high school earlier that day, killing at least 17 people. Browar...
Nepal gets new Communist prime minister after landmark pollsThe leader of Nepal's largest Communist party was named prime minister Thursday, two months after leading his party to a thumping victory in landmark elections billed as a turning point for the impove...
S Africa crisis: The Ramaphosa era opensSouth Africa's parliament on Thursday chose Cyril Ramaphosa, an anti-apartheid activist who became a wealthy businessman, to be president after Jacob Zuma, tarred by scandal, was forced from office. H...
Record number of Afghan civilian casualties in attacks in 2017: UNNearly 2,300 civilians were killed or wounded in suicide bombings and attacks in Afghanistan in 2017, more than any previous year of the conflict on record, a UN report said Thursday. The figures come...
MSF reveals sex abuse cases as Oxfam scandal widensA scandal over sexual abuse in the foreign aid industry that began with Oxfam spread on Wednesday, as French group Doctors Without Borders revealed it had fired 19 staff last year for harassment or ab...
Moon’s chief of staff takes centre stage in inter-Korean detenteSEOUL: In 1989, a 22-year-old South Korean student caused an uproar when she sneaked into North Korea and was filmed advocating for unification and meeting then leader Kim Il Sung. The unauthorised vi...
War wounds: the endless agony of Afghan civilians“If committing suicide was not a sin I would have already killed myself," says Mohammad Alem. For 20 months, the Afghan father has been largely bedridden, paralysed in a suicide attack in Kabul. Alem,...
US urges Turkey to refocus its Syria fight against ISUS Defence Secretary Jim Mattis has appealed to Turkey to concentrate its fight in Syria against the Islamic State group as tensions mount between the two NATO allies over Ankara's operation against a...
China angered as Narendra Modi visits Arunachal PradeshBEIJING: China on Thursday expressed anger over a visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Arunachal Pradesh, which China also claims, and said India should stop any action that might complicate the d...
UK blames Russia for cyber attackLONDON: Britain blamed Russia on Thursday for a cyber-attack last year, publicly pointing the finger at Moscow for spreading a virus which disrupted companies across Europe including UK-based Reckitt...
Indonesian court indicts cleric accused of masterminding attacksJAKARTA: An Indonesian court indicted radical Islamic cleric Aman Abdurrahman on Thursday over allegations he masterminded from his jail cell a series of attacks in the Muslim-majority nation, includi...
Indian sleuths raid billionaire jeweller’s officesIndian investigators on Thursday raided the premises of a billionaire jeweller accused of defrauding one of the country's biggest banks. Enforcement Directorate (ED) officers searched the Mumbai offic...