House win part of major realignment in Southern CaliforniaDemocrat Gil Cisneros captured a Republican-held US House seat in Southern California on Saturday, capping a Democratic rout in which the party picked up six congressional seats in the state. In what...
Iraqi war victims turn to social media to find medical helpIt was spring 2007 in northern Iraq when 6-year-old Saja Saleem raced home from school with the good news about her excellent grades, hoping to receive the gift her father had promised her. "All of a...
GOP Legislatures try to curb Democratic governors’ powerWith their grip on power set to loosen come January, Republicans in several states are considering last-ditch laws that would weaken existing or incoming Democratic governors and advance their own con...
Republican DeSantis secures Florida governor’s seat after rival Gillum concedesDemocrat Andrew Gillum, who had sought to become Florida's first black governor, conceded on Saturday, after a recount showed he had no way of catching his Republican rival Ron DeSantis, an ally of Pr...
UK’s May sees ‘no altaernative’ to her Brexit planBritish Prime Minister Theresa May says she sees no alternative to the Brexit deal she presented earlier this week, amid reports that some of her senior ministers want her to renegotiate the draft agr...
Australia surf lesson turns bloody after shark attackA man taking part in a surf lesson off Australia's east coast suffered serious cuts after a shark attack -- the latest in a spate of recent encounters. The attack is a sixth off Australia's beaches in...
‘I earn around a million euros’, German conservative Merz tells BildGerman businessman Friedrich Merz, who is running to replace Chancellor Angela Merkel as leader of the Christian Democratic (CDU) party, disclosed for the first time that he earns about one million eu...
‘Sad’ Trump visits fire-wracked California, blames mismanagementPresident Donald Trump expressed sadness Saturday at the devastation caused by fires in a California town, but persisted in his controversial claim that forest mismanagement is responsible for the tra...
‘Ex-Central Africa militia leader arrives at ICC detention centre’A former Central African Republic militia leader nicknamed “Col. Rambo” arrived on Saturday in The Hague, where he will stand trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity at the International Crim...
Rights group calls for US reparations over 1989 Panama invasionThe Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has called on Washington to compensate victims and families of the 1989 invasion of Panama, accusing US forces of multiple rights violations as th...
Panama prisoners build confession boxes for papal visitAmid swirling sawdust and the smell of fresh paint, the inmates of a grim Panamanian prison are diligently preparing for the upcoming visit of Pope Francis, hoping for forgiveness and praying for free...
After ‘nap-gate’, Duterte skips APEC summit dinnerPhilippine President Rodrigo Duterte passed on a gala dinner at a regional summit in Papua New Guinea, days after skipping key meetings in another gathering of world leaders for a "power nap". Duterte...
Search on for 1,276 now missing after California’s deadliest wildfireThe number of people missing after California's deadliest and most destructive wildfire jumped on Saturday to 1,276, despite authorities locating hundreds of people who scattered when the Camp Fire to...
Missing St Mark mosaic finally returns to CyprusOne of the last missing pieces of Byzantine art stolen from Cyprus in the 1970s was handed back this week by a renowned, and proud Dutch art investigator. Arthur Brand said Friday he handed back the s...
In Iraq, bloody tribal custom now classed as ‘terrorism’A bloody, age-old custom used by Iraq's powerful tribes to mete out justice has come under fire, with authorities classifying it as a "terrorist act" punishable by death. For centuries, Iraqi clans ha...
Woman’s death casts shadow over France’s ‘yellow vest’ protestsA protester was accidently killed and more than 220 injured as tens of thousands of people blocked roads across France in a "yellow vest" protest against high fuel prices, which has channelled anger a...
Looters plunder Albania’s sunken treasuresAlbania's long underexplored coastal waters have become a hotspot for treasure hunters scooping up ancient pottery, sunken ship parts and other shell-encrusted relics that have lain on the seabed for...
‘Moral panic’ targets Indonesia’s LGBT communityIndonesian Budi Ahmad used to live openly as a gay man without fear of becoming a target for violence in the world's biggest Muslim-majority nation. Not any more. The country of 260 million is in the...
Central Americans stalled at US-Mexico border, mull work offersHundreds of migrants from a caravan of Central Americans were stalled at the US-Mexico border on Saturday, where a handful said they welcomed recent Mexican offers of employment in the face of a hosti...
Fiji prime minister narrowly wins election to serve a second termFijian Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama will stay in power for a second term as he narrowly won a general election on Sunday after voting resumed following delays due to bad weather. Bainimarama's Fij...
Cyclone death toll in southeast India hits 33: officialThe death toll from a cyclone that battered India's eastern coast has reached 33, a disaster official said Sunday, as authorities assessed the damage caused by the powerful storm. Cyclone Gaja, which...
Advocates of new Brexit deal ‘not living in real world’ — Irish ministerPro-Brexit British ministers are "not living in the real world" if they think they can renegotiate the divorce treaty agreed with the EU last week, Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said on Saturda...
Israel’s Netanyahu says early election must be avoidedIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday he wanted his government to fulfil its term, putting the onus of triggering an expected early election onto a coalition partner. Netanyahu ha...
Rebels say Syrian army steps up attacks in IdlibSyrian rebels said on Saturday the Syrian army and their allies were intensifying attacks on a demilitarised zone in the northwest in an attempt to undermine a Russian-Turkish deal that has averted a...