Turkey’s Erdogan, presidential rival both vow to send Syrians homePresident Tayyip Erdogan and his main rival in Sunday's presidential election have both pledged to send millions of Syrian refugees home, responding to growing unease among voters about the number of...
Mexico leftist’s motley coalition augurs post-election balancing actMexican leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has forged a coalition of voters of all stripes in a bid to win the presidency at the third time of asking and now, with victory within his grasp, he must w...
UN rights chief calls for probe of abuses by Venezuela forcesThe United Nations human rights chief called Friday for an international investigation of atrocities in Venezuela, blasting the government's chronic refusal to probe security officers over the alleged...
China, Nepal to build Tibet-Kathmandu rail linkChina and Nepal have agreed to build a railway connecting Tibet with Kathmandu, among a raft of deals signed during the Nepali prime minister's visit to Beijing, reports said Friday. Nepal is seeking...
Sonar deployed in hunt for Indonesia ferry disaster victimsIndonesian authorities Friday turned to cutting-edge sonar technology as they search one of the world's deepest lakes for victims of a deadly ferry disaster. Search teams hope the equipment, on loan f...
US House Republicans delay immigration vote until next weekRepublican leaders in the US House of Representatives on Thursday delayed at least until next week votes on an immigration bill that was painstakingly negotiated over the last several weeks but has fa...
Saudi Arabia gears up to end women driving banSaudi Arabia will allow women to drive from Sunday, ending the world's only ban on female motorists, a historic reform marred by what rights groups call an expanding crackdown on activists. Overturnin...
Melania Trump visits border, Congress flails on family separationsMelania Trump made a surprise trip to the US-Mexican border on Thursday as her husband's administration seeks to quell a firestorm over migrant family separations, while Republican lawmakers were forc...
As Najib holidays in Malaysia, his former mentor Mahathir turns up the painThe police kept watch close to a holiday villa where Najib Razak this week gave his first sit-down interview since his shock election defeat last month, a reminder for the former Malaysian prime minis...
‘Are you the mother?’ A woman’s search for baby taken by US immigrationIt took 85 days for Olivia Caceres to retrieve her baby boy, pulled from his father's arms at the US border, a traumatic experience many more parents face to reunite with children separated under Pres...
Mexico turns page on handsome, scandal-stained presidentSix years after he seduced Mexico with his dashing good looks and promises of sweeping reform, President Enrique Pena Nieto leaves a legacy stained by corruption, violence and human rights violations....
Koreas discuss reunions for war-separated familiesNorth and South Korea on Friday held Red Cross talks to discuss resuming reunions for families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War, the latest step in the diplomatic thaw on the peninsula. Millions of...
Five charity workers gang-raped in IndiaFive women working for a charity in remote eastern India were abducted and gang-raped at gunpoint, police said Friday, in the latest horrific sex assault in the country. The women said in their compla...
A need to verify NKorea nuclear pledgesThe Trump administration on Thursday identified the missile test engine site that it says North Korea has pledged to destroy, but the president's latest comments about resolving the nuclear standoff h...
Indonesia hands death sentence to Islamic State-linked cleric for militant attacksAn Indonesian court on Friday sentenced to death a cleric linked to Islamic State, for masterminding from his jail cell a string of deadly militant attacks across the world's largest Muslim-majority c...
Turkey’s Erdogan says to slash number of ministries, speed up decisionsTurkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he will cut the number of ministries sharply to 16 and speed up decision-making in the next government if he wins an election on Sunday which will herald a transi...
Japan volcano featured in ‘James Bond’ movie erupts, ejecting smoke and rocksA Japanese volcano that figured in a 1960s James Bond movie erupted explosively on Friday for the first time since April, sending smoke thousands of meters into the air, less than a week after a stron...
Joint session: Pot found growing at Japan MPs’ buildingMarijuana plants have been found growing at an office building used by lawmakers in Japan, which has some of the strictest drug laws in the developed world, an official said Friday. The budding crop o...