Floating courts in China’s Three Gorges reservoirCHONGQING: With a gavel strike on the table, a trial opened on a ferry in the waters of the Three Gorges Reservoir region in Gaoyang Township in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality. Inside the ca...
EU cool to US plan for new Russia sanctions over SyriaEuropean Union foreign ministers looked unlikely to join the United States on Monday in imposing new economic sanctions on Russia or Syria over chemical weapons attacks that prompted the first coordin...
Iran environmentalist, symbol of expat return, quitsA top Iranian environment official, who symbolised government efforts to encourage expat Iranians to return home, has quit just seven months into his job, sources said Monday. The resignation of Kaveh...
Slovakia interior minister quits amid row over journalist’s murderSlovak new Interior Minister Tomas Drucker resigned Monday after resisting public demand to sack the chief of police following an investigative journalist's murder. Tens of thousands of street protest...
Trump ‘morally unfit’ for office, fired FBI chief Comey saysFired former FBI chief James Comey lashed out at Donald Trump in an interview with ABC broadcast Sunday, calling him “morally unfit” to be president and describing him as a serial liar who will “stain...
Japan PM Abe’s woes deepen as ratings drop, predecessor predicts resignationJapanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s political crisis deepened on Monday after polls showed that suspected cronyism scandals have pushed his support to record lows and a popular predecessor said Abe w...
‘Drug flats’ blight the heart of Spanish citiesA decade after Spain’s property bubble burst, dozens of vacant apartments in Madrid and Barcelona city centres have turned into “drug flats”, to the dismay of local residents who complain of abandoned...
Philippines bars EU party official critical of DuterteThe Philippines has barred entry to an EU party official critical of President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal drugs crackdown, in a move denounced by critics Monday as a gag on dissent. Italian Giacomo Fili...
Turkey says not siding with anyone on Syria, policy different from Iran, Russia, USTurkey does not stand with or against any country on Syria and its policy in the region is different from that of Iran, Russia and the United States, Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said on Monday....
Korean Air ‘nut rage’ sister apologizes for angry outburstKorean Air Lines’ unions have called for the youngest daughter of its chairman, a sister of the infamous ‘nut rage’ heiress, to step down from management after her alleged abusive behavior against an...
May, Macron face lawmakers anger over Syria strikesBritish Prime Minister Theresa May and French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday faced anger from lawmakers for conducting air strikes with the United States in Syria in their first major military ac...
Guatemala votes on international court handling Belize border disputeGuatemalans voted overwhelmingly Sunday to send a centuries-old border dispute with neighboring Belize to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for final resolution, according to preliminary refere...
In daytime discos, South Korea’s elderly find escape from anxietyA discotheque hidden among the back alleys of eastern Seoul is packed with hundreds of grey-haired couples on a Monday afternoon, dancing to local hits from the 1960s in a basketball court-sized hall....