Migrant caravan swells to 5,000, resumes advance toward USDespite Mexican efforts to stop them at the border, a growing throng of Central American migrants resumed their advance toward the U.S. border early Sunday in southern Mexico. Their numbers swelled to...
Most UK firms to trigger Brexit safety plans ‘by Christmas’The vast majority of British firms are poised to implement their Brexit contingency plans by Christmas if there isn't greater clarity over the country's exit from the European Union, a leading busines...
Hashoo Group hosts violin performance at MarriottHashoo Group owners of the Pearl Continental and Marriott Hotels in Pakistan hosted the first of a five-ensemble violin performance 'Stradivaria' at Islamabad Marriott yesterday. The performance kicke...
Honduran migrant ‘caravan’ resumes from Mexico to US: AFP reporterThousands of Honduran migrants resumed their march toward the United States on Sunday from the southern Mexican city of Ciudad Hidalgo. Mexican authorities on Thursday had managed to block the "carava...
Comoros island inches back to life after uprisingResidents on the Comoros island of Anjouan slowly returned to their daily lives Sunday after a six-day seige in the old quarter of Mutsamudu city where soldiers had fought with rebels in the narrow la...
Turkey will not allow cover-up in Khashoggi killing, sees ‘dire’ consequences, AKP official saysTurkey will not allow a cover-up after the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, a senior member of President Tayyip Erdogan's ruling AK Party said on Sunday, w...
Saudi account of Khashoggi’s death meets growing scepticismSaudi Arabia faced a growing chorus of incredulity Sunday over its belated explanation of how critic Jamal Khashoggi died inside its Istanbul consulate, as world powers demanded answers and the wherea...
New Delhi half-marathon tries radio waves to beat city’s toxic smogNew Delhi’s half-marathon race used ultra high frequency (UHF) radio waves to clear the air for the runners on Sunday, an experimental technique the organizers hope could improve the city’s notorious...
Palestinian protest icon goes from jail cell to VIP suiteWhen Israel locked up Ahed Tamimi for slapping a soldier last year, it hoped to finally silence the teenage Palestinian activist. Instead, it created an international celebrity. Less than three months...
Prince Harry inspires athletes as pregnant Meghan trims Australia scheduleThe pregnant wife of Britain’s Prince Harry, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, will cut back her busy schedule as the royal couple enter the last week-and-a-half of their tour to Australia, New Zealand a...
North Korea’s box of bones: A mythical king and the dream of Korean unificationIt’s the stuff of an Indiana Jones movie: supernatural kings, ancient tombs, and government-backed archaeologists striving to harness the power of legend for a greater cause. On a divided Korean penin...
Brazil looking likely to elect far-right Bolsonaro as presidentBarring any last-minute upset, Brazil appears poised to elect Jair Bolsonaro, a populist far-right veteran politician, as its next president in a week's time. His lead seems insurmountable over his le...
Former Dutch prime minister, Wim Kok, dies at 80Wim Kok, a former Dutch prime minister who helped forge the country's famed consensus-based politics and oversaw pioneering legalisations of euthanasia and gay marriage, died on Saturday of heart fail...
Israel postpones demolition of Bedouin West Bank villageIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has frozen plans to demolish a strategically located Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank that have drawn international concern, his office said Sunday....
Doing time in ‘Hell’: Life in Sierra Leone’s rundown prisonsA shaft of light penetrates the foul air through a fist-sized vent. It reveals naked, sweating bodies packed side-by-side like sardines, lying in darkness on a greasy concrete floor. The stench of uri...
Mexico allows caravan women, children in, but thousands still strandedMexican authorities allowed dozens of women and children from a US-bound Honduran migrant caravan to enter the country Saturday but thousands remain stranded on a border bridge between Guatemala and M...
Peru court to decide on long Keiko Fujimori detentionA Peruvian court will decide on Sunday whether to grant a prosecutor's request to place opposition leader Keiko Fujimori in preventive detention for 36 months, which would likely scupper her 2021 pres...
Return to Egypt revives memories of desert battle for British veteransFor Bill Blackburn, the memories that returned were the flies, the thirst, and the power of the artillery barrage that opened the battle of El Alamein. Blackburn was one of six British World War Two v...
Australia PM rules out early poll after by-election blowAustralian Prime Minister Scott Morrison pledged Sunday his embattled government would serve out a full term despite the conservative coalition looking set to lose its majority after a voter backlash...
Germany questions arms sales to Saudi over Khashoggi killingGermany should not approve arms sales to Saudi Arabia until investigations into the circumstances of journalist Jamal Khashoggi's death have been completed, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Saturda...
Polish regional vote a test for eurosceptic PiS governmentPoles vote in a regional election on Sunday with gains expected for the ruling eurosceptic Law and Justice (PiS) party, whose nationalist rhetoric and institutional reforms have fuelled a deepening ri...
Philippine police: Gunmen kill 9 people who occupied farmGunmen killed nine members of a farmers’ group who occupied part of a privately owned sugarcane plantation in a central Philippine province, police said Sunday. The victims were resting in a hut Satur...
Indonesia to renegotiate fighter jet deal with S Korea to ease FX burdenIndonesia is seeking "lighter" financial terms in a renegotiated project with South Korea to jointly develop a mid-level fighter jet, in a move aimed at supporting the rupiah by reducing use of the co...
Trump would prefer to pick a woman for UN envoyPresident Donald Trump said on Saturday he would prefer to pick a woman to take over the job of Washington's United Nations ambassador. Trump, speaking to reporters in Elko, Nevada, said he was curren...
Two elephants die in another Sri Lanka train collisionTwo elephants were killed and another critically injured Sunday crossing railway tracks in Sri Lanka, officials said, in yet another tragic collision involving the protected animals and speeding train...