New Zealand begins funerals for mosque shooting victims, PM visits schoolThe bodies of victims from New Zealand's mosques mass shooting were carried in open caskets on the shoulders of mourners into a large tent at Christchurch's Memorial Park Cemetery on Wednesday - the f...
Venezuela doctors under regime pressure during UN visitVenezuelan doctors have come under pressure from President Nicolas Maduro's government for trying to alert a visiting UN mission about the severe lack of hospital medicine and equipment, NGOs say. Ven...
Hamas crackdown quells Gaza demos, but protest calls persistGaza has seen regular protests along the Israeli border for the past year, but new demonstrations in recent days have been much less to the liking of the strip's rulers Hamas. Over the course of sever...
Australian PM pillories Erdogan for ‘reckless’, ‘vile’ Christchurch commentsAustralian Prime Minister Scott Morrison condemned "reckless" and "highly offensive" comments made by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the wake of the Christchurch massacre, warning he would consider...
NZ gunman ‘faces isolation’ due to prison dangersThe white-supremacist accused of the Christchurch killings will spend the rest of his life in jail if convicted, likely in isolation for his own safety, a New Zealand criminologist and former convict...
“I am your mother now”: NZ mosque shootings hit tight-knit Bangladesh community hardHusna Ahmed was 19 when she arrived in New Zealand from Bangladesh on her wedding day. Waiting to meet her was Farid, the man she would marry in a few hours, as their families had agreed. A quarter of...
Hungary’s Viktor Orban: populist fanning EU tensionsHungary's all-powerful premier Viktor Orban is the self-styled defender of Christian Europe against the "poison" of immigration, an admirer of "illiberal democracy" and a thorn in the European Union's...
Civilian deaths mount as US drone strikes in Somalia escalate: AmnestyUS forces have "dramatically increased" the number of air strikes in Somalia with several civilians killed by the powerful missiles, Amnesty International said Wednesday, reports denied by the militar...
Indian girl, 12, ‘raped and killed’ by brothers and uncleTwo brothers have been arrested in India for allegedly raping their 12-year-old sister who was later beheaded with a sickle, police said Wednesday. India has a grim record of sexual assaults on minors...
Mexican president talks trade, migration with Trump adviser KushnerMexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador met with US White House adviser Jared Kushner on Tuesday, the Mexican government said, discussing trade and migration issues that have strained relations...
Eight injured in Myanmar temple-town violenceFighting between Myanmar's military and ethnic Rakhine rebels in Mrauk U, the ancient capital of the Rakhine kingdom, has left at least eight locals injured, scaring tourists and sparking fears that t...
Drought wipes popular Chilean lake from the mapThe cows and horses would have come for the last blades of grass. Now their bones are scattered on the cracked earth, victims of drought that wiped Santiago's weekend playground Lake Aculeo from the m...
Mozambique starts three days of mourning after cyclone kills hundredsMozambique started three days of national mourning on Wednesday after powerful cyclone winds and flooding killed hundreds of people and left a massive trail of destruction across swathes of southeast...
New Kazakh president sworn in, proposes renaming capitalThe head of Kazakhstan's senate was sworn in as interim president in a pomp-filled ceremony Wednesday, and immediately proposed renaming the country's capital after his predecessor. Nursultan Nazarbay...
Venezuela’s opposition-controlled legislature makes new military offerMembers of the Venezuelan armed forces that abandon President Nicolas Maduro will keep their rank and be reinstated once a new government is in place, the opposition-controlled legislature said Tuesda...
Egypt’s historic Wafd party eclipsed under Sisi’s ruleA century after Egypt's March 1919 revolution, the prominent Wafd party credited with leading popular demands to end the British occupation, has now been largely sidelined on the country's political s...
Karadzic trial to close, but Bosnia’s divides remain openWidows of the Srebrenica massacre hope he will die in prison, while Bosnian Serbs have honoured Radovan Karadzic with a university dorm in his name. Ahead of his final verdict in a UN court, the forme...
New Zealanders give up guns after massacre, but some face blowbackNew Zealanders have begun handing in weapons in response to government appeals following the Christchurch massacre, but the gesture has put some squarely in the social media firing line. John Hart, a...
Veteran Kazakh leader Nazarbayev resigns after three decades in powerKazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev unexpectedly resigned on Tuesday after three decades in power, saying his oil-rich Central Asian nation now needed "a new generation of leaders". Nazarbayev...
Brazil leader, wooing Trump, opens base to US rocketsBrazil's new right-wing president, Jair Bolsonaro, signed a deal Monday to open a base to US satellite launches as he appealed for warm relations with Donald Trump on a visit to Washington. The outspo...