Aid agencies struggle to rescue Mozambique cyclone victimsAid workers raced on Wednesday to help survivors and meet spiralling humanitarian needs in three southern African countries battered by the region’s worst storm in years. Five days after tropical cycl...
Kamnan Style: Thai ‘godfathers’ resurgent as junta scrambles for seatsItthipol Khunpleum grabs the mic, bounds onto the stage and flashes a winning smile as he works the crowd gathered for a final rally: "Chonburi... show me your hands!" he says to wild applause. But he...
Australian state election will be trial run for PM’s federal contest in MayPrime Minister Scott Morrison's Liberal Party faces a tight election contest in Australia's largest state on Saturday, polls suggest, as a strong economy and a troubled opposition may not surmount vot...
Explosion at Chinese chemical plant kills 47, injures 640An explosion at a pesticide plant in eastern China has killed 47 people and injured more than 600, state media said on Friday, the latest casualties in a series of industrial accidents that has angere...
Dozens of civilians executed by army and militants: HRWBurkina Faso security forces have summarily executed more than 115 civilians since mid-last year during operations against militants who themselves have killed over a third of that number, Human Right...
At least nine killed in explosion amid protests in ColombiaAt least nine people were killed and four injured in an unexplained explosion on Thursday in an indigenous area in Colombia’s mountainous southwest, local authorities said. The incident came on the 10...
Two US service members killed in AfghanistanTwo US service members were killed in Afghanistan on Friday while conducting an operation, the NATO-led Resolute Support mission said in a statement. It gave no further details and withheld the names...
Mother Russia: South Florida sees a boom in ‘birth tourism’Every year, hundreds of pregnant Russian women travel to the United States to give birth so that their child can acquire all the privileges of American citizenship. They pay anywhere from $20,000 to s...
UN official welcomes Rohingya relocation planA senior UN official has welcomed Bangladesh's plan to move Rohingya refugees out of the country's congested camps, but said any move to transfer some 100,000 of them to a flood-prone island should be...
Four in 10 Britons worried, angry about Brexit: surveyAround four in 10 British adults have been left feeling powerless, angry or worried by Brexit in the last year, according to a poll out Friday. The Mental Health Foundation (MHF) charity commissioned...
Sri Lanka Tamils demand foreign judges in war crimes probeSri Lanka's main minority Tamil party demanded Friday that foreign judges be included in a special court to investigate war crimes, a day after the UN again granted Colombo more time for a much-delaye...