Thailand’s oldest party may be king-maker after vote to determine military roleThailand's oldest political party is heading into an election on Sunday with leader Abhisit Vejjajiva facing tough choices in the first polls since the military seized power in a 2014 coup. Will Abhis...
NZ PM Ardern vows mosque killer will face ‘full force of law’New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern vowed Tuesday never to utter the name of the twin-mosque gunman as she opened a sombre session of parliament with an evocative "as-salaam alaikum" message of...
Treason: Myanmar court jails Rakhine leader for 20 yearsA Myanmar court on Tuesday sentenced a prominent ethnic Rakhine leader to 20 years in jail for treason, a verdict likely to intensify anger amid fighting between the ethnic group and the army. Securit...
‘I Live! I Die!’ — New Zealand uses haka to heal after attacksNew Zealanders are gathering to thump chests, stomp feet and stick out their tongues -- staging impromptu performances of the haka war dance to show solidarity with a Muslim community shattered by the...
Indonesia flood death toll rises to 89, dozens missingAt least 89 people are known to have died after flash floods and landslides tore through Indonesia's Papua region, with the toll expected to rise further as rescuers hunt for dozens still missing, the...
US House panel expects thousands of documents in Trump probeThe Democratic-led US House Judiciary Committee said on Monday that it expects to receive tens of thousands of documents as part of its wide-ranging corruption and obstruction of justice probe of Repu...
New Algerian group urges Bouteflika to step down, and army not to interfereA new Algerian group headed by political leaders, opposition figures and activists has called on President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to step down at the end of his term on April 28, and urged the army not...
Turkey escalates crackdown on dissent six years after Gezi protestsUnzile Aksakoglu struggles to explain to her seven-year-old daughter why her father Yigit has spent four months in jail and may never leave, because of his alleged role in mass protests against Turkey...
Time for N Korea to take concrete steps: Moon adviserTime for N Korea to take concrete steps: Moon adviserNorth Korea should take "actual action" towards giving up its nuclear weapons to break the deadlock in talks with Washington, a top security advise...
In Italy, arrests aplenty but top people smugglers remain elusiveDespite hefty anti-mafia powers, international police cooperation and thousands of arrests, Italy has yet to deal a significant blow to the human-trafficking networks responsible for sending countless...
‘Hold the compass or die’: jailed migrants recount ordealGambian Cherno Jallow, Senegalese Cheikhaya Dieng, and Ivorian Fofana Lamine, are finishing 44-month jail sentences in Italy after people smugglers forced them to navigate boats across the Mediterrane...
Job skills for young Indonesians a key concern ahead of electionRival campaigners in Indonesia's elections next month are sparring over ways to fix the education system in Southeast Asia's biggest economy, which is widely blamed for failing to equip students with...
Warren calls for scrapping US electoral college in 2020 televised town hallSenator Elizabeth Warren, one of more than a dozen Democrats vying for the 2020 presidential nomination, on Monday called for the scrapping of the electoral college, the method used to elect US presid...
Australian PM pushes G20 to tackle internet extremismAustralian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called on world leaders to press technology firms to tackle the "ungoverned" space of extremist internet content in the wake of the Christchurch terror att...
NZ pledges gun control as mosque ‘gunman’ sacks lawyerNew Zealand will tighten gun laws in the wake of its worst modern-day massacre, the government said Monday, as it emerged that the white supremacist accused of carrying out the killings at two mosques...
Rohingya ‘lost generation’ struggle to study in Bangladesh campsSixteen-year-old Kefayat Ullah walked to his school in southern Bangladesh in late January, as he had done most days for the previous six years, to find that - despite being one of the top students in...
Australian watchdog to probe broadcast of New Zealand gunman livestreamAustralia's media watchdog launched a formal investigation Monday into the possible breach of rules by networks which broadcast or put online images from a livestream of the New Zealand mosque massacr...
Syrian in court for the killing which sparked Germany far-right riotsA Syrian man went on trial Monday accused of a knife killing that sparked racist street violence and far-right protests in the eastern German city of Chemnitz last year. The manslaughter trial against...
Saudi crown prince approved ‘intervention’ against dissidents: reportMore than a year before the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia's powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved a secret campaign to silence dissenters, The New York Times reporte...
New Zealand Muslim leaders preach love, compassion after mosque attacksNew Zealand Muslim leaders on Monday conveyed messages of love, compassion and appreciation for the community support they had received after a lone gunman attacked two mosques, killing 50 people and...
Canada to extend military training mission in Ukraine — sourceCanada will announce as expected on Monday that it is extending a 200-strong military training mission in Ukraine, a source directly familiar with the matter said on Sunday. Foreign Minister Chrystia...
‘Clear similarities’ between Boeing crashes in Ethiopia, IndonesiaFlight recorder data recovered from the wreckage of Boeing 737 MAX planes that crashed in Ethiopia and Indonesia shows "clear similarities," Addis Ababa said Sunday as the US maker announced it was fi...
Brazil’s Bolsonaro in US to cement an alliance with TrumpBrazilian President Jair Bolsonaro arrived in Washington on Sunday to meet with his US counterpart Donald Trump and cement a budding conservative-populist alliance that, in part, aims to ramp up press...
Bosnia’s Karadzic faces final war crimes verdict in The HagueUN judges will rule Wednesday on former Bosnian Serb strongman Radovan Karadzic's appeal against his conviction for genocide and other atrocities during the bloody civil war in the 1990s. Karadzic was...
Venezuela’s Maduro plans ‘deep restructuring’ of government — VPVenezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is planning a "deep restructuring" of his government, Vice President Delcy Rodriguez said on Sunday, as the country recovers from a prolonged blackout amid a power...
In St. Lucia, Britain’s Prince Charles touts ‘blue economy’On the first leg of his Caribbean tour, Britain's Prince Charles touted a "vital blue economy," built on sustainable use of ocean resources for economic growth, as part of the solution to climate chan...
French PM plans new security measures after Champs Elysees riotingFrance's prime minister will present plans on Monday to crack down on rioters, his office said, after a new flare-up of violence linked to the yellow vest protest movement. Rioters ransacked stores an...
Israel’s top court disqualifies far-rightist, approves Arab party for ballotIsrael's top court disqualified on Sunday a far-right Jewish politician from next month's national election and approved the candidacy of a disputed Arab party, overturning March 6 decisions by the el...
Australian family of NZ mosques gunman devastated for victimsA grandmother of the Australian man suspected of killing 50 people in two New Zealand mosques said she was “just devastated” for the dead and injured. Speaking publicly for the first time in their hom...
No sign of imminent North Korea missile launchIt is too soon to tell if recent activity at some of North Korea’s rocket facilities is preparation for a missile launch, South Korea’s defense minister told a parliamentary hearing on Monday. Early i...