UN warns of lack of trust as Amnesty denounces S Sudan ‘war crimes’The United Nations on Wednesday warned that entrenched suspicion clouded a newly-minted deal to restore peace to South Sudan, as Amnesty International accused government forces of war crimes. "There's...
Thousands head home in Syria’s Idlib after deal: monitorThousands of residents of Syria's last major rebel bastion Idlib headed home within 48 hours of the announcement of a deal to avoid a government offensive to retake it, a war monitor said on Wednesday...
Tired Londoners rent sleep pods for some zzz’sExhausted Londoners hoping to take a rest from their busy schedules are being offered an alternative to coffee breaks: a sleep pod where they can grab some shut-eye for £15 ($20) an hour. Inspired by...
Depth of French police collaboration with Nazis revealedA new book and documentary have revealed the lengths to which the French wartime Vichy regime went to please the Nazis. The new research carried out by historian Laurent Joly and filmmaker David Korn-...
Turkey opposition daily Cumhuriyet shaken by internal strifeThe Istanbul headquarters of Turkish opposition daily Cumhuriyet hums with the daily excitement of a busy newsroom as reporters work the phones chasing their next story. On the wall, an old front page...
North Korea to invite foreign experts to permanently scrap missile sitesNorth Korea has agreed to "permanently" abolish its key missile facilities in the presence of foreign experts, and is willing to close its main nuclear complex if the United States takes reciprocal ac...
Knights of the tripe: French food cults defend local fareOn a Saturday morning in September in the Normandy countryside a group of men and women gather for an ancient French initiation ceremony. The merry band bustling about in colourful robes and hats, wit...
Philippines typhoon toll hits 81, expected to riseThe death toll in the Philippines from Typhoon Mangkhut has climbed to 81 and could hit triple digits as searchers dig through a landslide where dozens are presumed dead, authorities said Wednesday. M...
Assault-accused Macron bodyguard braces for Senate grillingThe disgraced former bodyguard at the centre of the biggest scandal of Emmanuel Macron's young presidency is due to appear Wednesday before a Senate committee which will quiz him over his close ties t...
Strawberry sabotage akin to ‘terrorism’: Australia PMThe tainting of supermarket strawberries with sewing needles is comparable to "terrorism", Australia's prime minister said Wednesday, as he demanded tougher sentencing in response to a nationwide scar...
Mexican official fired over bodies stored in truck says he’s a scapegoatMexican authorities fired a forensic official on Tuesday after an outcry over the storage of some 150 bodies in a refrigerated container truck that roamed towns in Jalisco state, where morgues are fil...
5.2 million children at famine risk in Yemen: charityMore than five million children are at risk of famine in Yemen as the ongoing war causes food and fuel prices to soar across the country, charity Save the Children warned Wednesday. Disruption to supp...
Afghan Shiites brace for attacks ahead of Ashura holy dayA series of devastating suicide attacks on Afghanistan's minority Shiite community has fuelled fears of more violence ahead of Ashura, one of the Muslim sect's holiest days, and prompted calls for civ...
Hotspots, not trouble spots: Africa seeks tourism boomAfrica draws just five percent of the world's tourists despite boasting attractions ranging from the Pyramids and Victoria Falls to wildlife safaris and endless strips of pristine beach. But the conti...