Zimbabwe blocks internet as crackdown intensifiesZimbabwe on Friday imposed a "total shutdown" of the internet as international criticism mounted over a ruthless security crackdown after anti-government protests. Police and soldiers have been accuse...
Iran’s FM mocks John Bolton with ‘10-year challenge’Iran's foreign minister has mocked the US national security adviser's calls for a strike on Iran, in a play on the viral 10-year challenge meme on social media. In a tweet Friday, Mohammad Javad Zarif...
How Kabila’s election strategy unravelled in CongoIn Kinshasa's lush Botanical Garden, the scene was set to celebrate the election of the man Joseph Kabila had chosen to replace him as president of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Emmanuel Ramazani...
Trump grounds House speaker, scraps Davos trip amid shutdownUS President Donald Trump forced the cancellation Thursday of a trip to Afghanistan by his Democratic opponent Nancy Pelosi, and scrapped administration officials' travel to the Davos forum as a gover...
$11 toothpaste: Immigrants pay big for basics at private ICE lock-upsDetained in a California lockup with hundreds of other immigrants seeking asylum, Duglas Cruz faced a choice. He could content himself with a jailhouse diet that he said left him perpetually hungry. O...
Davos assembly faces Brazilian populism and BrexitGovernment and business leaders trek to the freezing Swiss Alps next week for the annual Davos conclave, taking heat from a populist wave encapsulated in Brazil's new far-right leader, trade conflicts...
21 dead in car bomb attack on Colombian police academyColombia' s government declared three days of mourning Thursday after at least 21 people died in a car bomb at a Bogota police cadet training academy, and 68 were wounded -- the worst such incident in...
Brothers in arms: S Korea debates military service exemptionsDespite generating almost $4 billion a year for the South Korean economy, the seven floppy-haired members of K-pop boyband BTS will still have to perform nearly two years of mind-numbing military serv...
Trump missile defense review calls North Korea ‘extraordinary threat’President Donald Trump unveiled a revamped US missile defense strategy on Thursday that called North Korea an ongoing and "extraordinary threat," seven months after he declared the threat posed by Pyo...
Palestinian forces soldier on amid Israeli raids, US neglectOn a cold winter's night earlier this month, a convoy of 10 Israeli armored jeeps drove into the heart of the West Bank city of Ramallah and parked in front of the Palestinian police headquarters. Sol...
US, North Korea to hold talks on second Trump-Kim summitNorth Korea's lead negotiator in nuclear diplomacy with the United States is expected to hold talks with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and could also meet President Donald Trump on Friday during a vi...
Climate change clouds Australia’s Pacific charm offensiveAustralian Prime Minister Scott Morrison's Pacific charm offensive went off course on Friday when he was forced to defend Fiji's accusations of inaction over climate change. As Morrison pushed Canberr...
Singapore plans to buy F-35 jets — defence ministerSingapore's defence minister said on Friday that Lockheed Martin's F-35 fighter jets were the most suitable replacement for its F-16 fleet, and it planned to buy "a few planes first" for evaluation. "...
Belarusian model who claimed Trump secrets detained in Moscow — IfaxA model from Belarus who claimed to have evidence of Russian interference in US President Donald Trump's election was detained in an airport in Moscow on Thursday after being deported from Thailand, I...
India court orders security for women who entered flashpoint templeThe Indian Supreme Court on Friday ordered southern Kerala state to provide “round-the-clock” security to two women who enraged conservatives by entering one of Hinduism's holiest temples earlier this...
Former Singapore presidential candidate plans new opposition partyA former member of Singapore's ruling party and presidential candidate said on Friday he had applied to set up a new party, making a return to politics ahead of an election expected as soon as this ye...