Germany’s Merkel faces questions over migrationGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel is to face questions at her annual summer news conference over the government's handling of the thorny issue of migration and Berlin's fraught relationship with the Uni...
May survives rebel MPs but EU’s Brexit judgment loomsPrime Minister Theresa May has survived a frenzied fortnight of rebellion that threatened to unseat her, but must now sell her Brexit plan to voters and the European Union. With a trip to Northern Ire...
Trump invites Putin to Washington despite US uproar over Helsinki summitPresident Donald Trump has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to Washington this autumn, the White House said on Thursday, a daring rebuttal to the torrent of criticism in the United States over...
‘Dangerous complacency’ looms over world AIDS meetingThousands of experts and activists descend on Amsterdam Monday to bolster the battle against AIDS amid warnings that "dangerous complacency" may cause a resurgence of the epidemic that has already kil...
S Korea’s ex-president Park given eight more years in prisonDisgraced former South Korean president Park Geun-hye was convicted of charges including illegally receiving funds from the country's spy agency on Friday and given eight more years in prison, on top...
Nicaragua’s Ortega, battling protests, calls for peace on anniversaryNicaraguan President Daniel Ortega urged protesters on Thursday to end what he described as their attempt to destabilize the country, after police and heavily armed supporters suppressed weeks of prot...
N Korea puts reunion of war separated families in doubtNorth Korea said Friday that an August reunion of Korean families separated by war may not happen if South Korea doesn't immediately return some of its citizens who arrived in the South in recent year...
WhatsApp curbs India service after lynchingsWhatsApp announced limits on the forwarding of messages by its 200 million Indian users in an effort to stop a spate of horrific lynchings and to assuage government threats of legal action in its bigg...
Space, not Brexit, is final frontier for Scottish outpostNever mind Brexit: For a remote peninsula in the Scottish highlands, the buzz is all about hi-tech rocket launchers firing satellites into space. In just three years' time, rockets will send satellite...
Home comforts greet ‘Wild Boars’ captain after Thai cave rescueHappiness is a birthday cake, a meal of pork-knuckle rice, a warm bed and a trip to buy a new mobile telephone. Those were some of the treats enjoyed by Duangpetch Promthep, captain of the Thai boys’...
Women from ethnic armed group killed in Myanmar’s eastSeveral women were among those killed in Myanmar's restive eastern region in renewed clashes between the army and an ethnic rebel group, with both sides providing conflicting accounts of the battle. F...
Vietnam to deport American detained during nationwide protestsA Vietnamese court has ordered the deportation of an American man of Vietnamese descent detained during nationwide protests last month, state media reported on Friday. William Anh Nguyen, 32, was accu...
US foreign, defence chiefs to travel to Delhi for high-level talksUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will travel to New Delhi in September for high-level talks that were twice postponed this year, the Indian foreign ministry announced...