Hungary denounces EU sanctions on MoscowHungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Sunday denounced European Union sanctions imposed on Russia, during a visit to President Vladimir Putin in Moscow ahead of the Moscow World Cup final. Hungary...
Helsinki: the right fit for Trump-Putin summitThe choice of Helsinki for Monday's first summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin is a reminder of the Finnish capital's Cold War history when it hosted a number of key tete-a-tetes. Finland sh...
Planemakers plot course through trade, Brexit worries to air show dealsAerospace firms are setting out wares from luxury jets to lethal drones at back-to-back British air shows this week, hoping trade tensions will not deter airlines from buying jetliners even as geopoli...
Iraqi protesters storm local govt building amid anger over graftProtesters stormed the provincial government building in the Iraqi city of Kerbala on Saturday as protests over poor public services and corruption across southern Iraq entered their sixth day. Demons...
Church says govt forces kill two on Nicaragua day of protestGovernment forces in Nicaragua shot dead two young men at a protest site at a church, the clergy said, the latest violence to hit the Central American country that has convulsed with political unrest...
Obama to lead celebrations 100 years after Mandela’s birthSouth Africa celebrates the 100th anniversary of Nelson Mandela's birth this week with a flagship speech by former US president Barack Obama and an outpouring of memories and tributes to the late anti...
Haiti prime minister resigns after deadly unrestEmbattled Haiti Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant resigned on Saturday following deadly violence and looting sparked by a now-abandoned plan to raise fuel prices, triggering a fraught process to form...
After no end of drama, Trump and Putin take to summit stageBefore coming to Europe, US President Donald Trump raised eyebrows by predicting that Monday's historic Helsinki summit with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin would be the "easiest" stage of his tour...
Trump and Putin: the odd coupleAs Donald Trump prepared to travel to Moscow five years ago for the Miss Universe pageant, he wondered whether he would run into Vladimir Putin. "If so," he wrote on Twitter, "will he become my new be...
Remembering ETA in Basque Country, a divisive challengeAs the director of a peace museum in Spain's Guernica, the Basque town infamously destroyed during the civil war, Iratxe Momoitio has often heard young visitors ask a surprising question. "What is ETA...
US, North Korea meet to discuss remains of soldiers from Korean War – YonhapUS and North Korean officials met on the inter-Korean border on Sunday to discuss the return of remains of US soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean War, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said. The repa...
Turkey issues presidential decrees reshaping institutionsTurkey issued presidential decrees on Sunday reshaping key political, military and bureaucratic institutions as part of the transformation to a powerful executive presidency triggered by last month's...
Woman survives seven days on radiator water after California crashAn Oregon woman who disappeared a week ago was rescued from the bottom of a California coastal cliff where she survived by drinking water from the radiator of her wrecked sports utility vehicle, autho...
Communist-run Cuba to recognise private property in new constitutionCommunist-run Cuba will officially recognise private property, something it has long rejected as a vestige of capitalism, under a new constitution that also creates the position of prime minister alon...
Arrests after India mob lynches man over WhatsApp child abduction rumourIndian police said Sunday they have arrested 25 people after a man was killed by a mob in the country's latest lynching over suspicion of child kidnapping sparked by rumours on WhatsApp. The men were...
King of the Ghats: life and death on the banks of the GangesIt is well past midnight as Bahadur Choudhary, a fourth-generation caretaker of Varanasi's ancient cremation grounds, sprinkles ceremonial butter on huge funeral pyres burning on the banks of the Gang...
Civilian deaths in war-torn Afghanistan hit record high: UNThe number of Afghan civilians killed in the country's long-running conflict hit a record high in the first six months of 2018, UN figures showed Sunday, with militant attacks and suicide bombs the le...