Reuters journalist takes stand as Myanmar trial beginsOne of two Reuters journalists charged in Myanmar with breaking a state secrets law while reporting on the Rohingya crisis protested his innocence Monday on the first day of a trial that has provoked...
In Mozambique, classes come alive in local languagesAbout 50 children sit on a bare classroom floor in front of their teacher in what could be any lesson in Mozambique, except that they are not learning in Portuguese, the country's official language. T...
Heat and power cuts force Gazans onto polluted beachesMaher Taha, his wife and six children sit enjoying the breeze on beach in Gaza, doing their best to ignore the rubbish and raw sewage floating a few yards off shore. The water is polluted and the smel...
Mexican president-elect slashes his own salaryMexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Sunday he plans to earn less than half of what his predecessor makes when he takes office in December as part of an austerity push in governmen...
Over a billion people struggle to stay cool as Earth warmsMore than a billion people are at risk from a lack of air conditioning and refrigeration to keep them cool and to preserve food and medicines as global warming brings more high temperatures, a study s...
EU official urges Trump, Putin not to destroy global orderA senior European official on Monday urged US President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and China to work with Europe to avoid trade wars and prevent conflict and chaos. Speaking before...
Clean water for all is still centuries away, aid group warnsSupplying clean water and toilets for all could take hundreds of years in countries like Eritrea and Namibia unless governments step up funding to tackle the problem and its harmful effects on health,...
Muslim candidates running in record numbers face backlashA liberal woman of color with zero name recognition and little funding takes down a powerful, long serving congressman from her own political party. When Tahirah Amatul-Wadud heard about Alexandria Oc...
Syrian forces widen south west offensive, some rebels leave for northSyrian government forces widened their offensive in the country’s southwest on Sunday to Quneitra province, a region adjoining the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, a war monitor and rebel sources said....
Puerto Ricans cheer return of electricity but remain waryIt was finally a night to celebrate in this village tucked into the mountains of central Puerto Rico. People pressed TV remote buttons, clicked on fans and plugged in refrigerators as electricity agai...
‘We are always missing you’: Torn apart by violence, Rohingya families connect through lettersInside a bamboo shelter on Bangladesh’s eastern coast, 58-year-old Sait Banu held a dog-eared note from her husband. “If you find a good match for my daughter Una Jamin, you can arrange her wedding,”...
HRW urges Lebanon to investigate alleged torture of actorLebanon must investigate the account of a prominent actor who says he was forcibly disappeared and tortured by state security forces last year, Human Rights Watch said on Monday. Ziad Itani was arrest...
Novichok nerve agent was in ‘perfume bottle’: victim’s brotherA British man exposed to Novichok, four months after the same nerve agent was used against a former Russian spy nearby, had found it in a perfume bottle, his brother said. Matthew Rowley told BBC News...
Strikes blamed on Israel killed 9 pro-regime fighters in Syria: monitorAt least nine pro-regime fighters died in a suspected Israeli missile strike overnight in northern Syria, a monitor said Monday. Syrian state media had accused Israel of bombing a military position in...
Iran’s Khamenei seeks better ties with the world, apart from USIran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei has called for better ties with the world -- though not with the United States, according his official website on Monday. Khamenei met President Hassan Rouhani and h...
Fierce heatwave hits Japan flood recoveryAblistering heatwave smothered swathes of flood-hit western Japan Monday, hampering clean-up efforts as survivors and relief workers toil in stifling temperatures a week after devastating inundations...
Eritrea reopens embassy in Addis Ababa in fresh sign of thaw with EthiopiaEritrea reopened its embassy in Ethiopia on Monday in further evidence of a rapid thaw between two countries that a week ago ended two decades of military stalemate over a border war in which tens of...