Back to the wall, Cruz decries challenger O’Rourke as out-of-touch leftistTed Cruz is in the political fight of his life — and he knows it. The conservative US senator from Texas is being outpaced and overshadowed by his progressive challenger, Beto O’Rourke, who is pushing...
Ordering opioids online? Mail carrier may also deliver handcuffsHe looked like a regular mail carrier, dropping off an unremarkable package at an upscale New York City apartment tower, but neither the man nor the package were quite what they seemed. The mail carri...
Indian bishop refused bail in nun rape caseAn Indian bishop accused of raping a nun was refused bail Saturday, and ordered to remain in police custody to face questioning in a case that has triggered outrage among clergy. Bishop Franco Mulakka...
Libya urges ‘effective’ UN action to end Tripoli violenceLibya's internationally recognised government has called on the UN to take "concrete and effective" action to protect civilians and halt fighting near the capital that has killed more than 100 people...
Trump turns on Supreme Court nominee’s accuserThe woman whose sexual assault allegation threatens to bring down Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee rejected an ultimatum Friday for testifying in the Senate after the US president turned against h...
Tanzania ferry disaster toll rises to 200The death toll after a ferry capsized in Lake Victoria has risen to 200, state-run TV station TBC said Saturday as rescue workers pressed on with the search to find scores more people feared drowned....
Pope to honour Baltic martyrs amid abuse crisisPope Francis kicks off a Baltic tour in Catholic Lithuania on Saturday where he will honour victims of the region's Nazi and Soviet occupations as the Church reels from fresh clerical abuse scandals....
Journalist murdered in Mexico, ninth in 2018Gunmen on Friday killed a Mexican journalist who had received threats after reporting on corruption in the southern state of Chiapas, his newspaper said, in what was at least the ninth murder of a rep...
Truck full of bodies draws Mexicans searching for relativesDozens of people from across Mexico who are searching for missing relatives this week journeyed to the city of Guadalajara, where a scandal has erupted over a truck full of unidentified bodies that ov...
Japan PM Abe to visit Darwin in first since World War II: mediaJapanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit Darwin in November in a first for a Japanese leader since the Japanese imperial army bombed the Australian city during World War II, Australian media repo...
Ecuador attempted to give Assange diplomat post in Russia — documentEcuador in 2017 gave Wikileaks founder Julian Assange a diplomatic post in Russia but rescinded it after Britain refused to give him diplomatic immunity, according to an Ecuadorean government document...
Hollande fuels Rafale fighter jet controversy in IndiaFormer French president Francois Hollande has fuelled controversy over India's multi-billion-dollar 2016 purchase of 36 Rafale fighter jets, saying that France was given no choice on the Indian partne...
Brazil’s favelas, the oft-overlooked election hunting groundsA quarter of Rio de Janeiro's population lives in slums, or favelas, yet too often those very people are left feeling marginalized. Wracked by drug and gang-related violence and stricken with poverty,...
Iran will defeat Trump just like it did Saddam, won’t abandon missiles — RouhaniUS President Donald Trump will fail in his confrontation with Iran, just like Iraq's Saddam Hussein, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday, referring to the war between the two Middle East...
Maldives election will not be free and fair: foreign monitorsThe Maldives presidential election on Sunday will not be free and fair because President Abdulla Yameen has used draconian laws to crackdown on rivals, a foreign monitoring group said on the eve of vo...
UK PM May facing ministerial resignations over Brexit plan: TelegraphSome of British Prime Minister Theresa May's ministers will demand a "Plan B" on her Brexit proposal next week and could quit if she does not change course, the Telegraph newspaper reported late on Fr...
France sees Brexit deal possible, but must prepare for ‘no deal’France still believes that a good deal on Brexit is possible but the country must prepare for the possibility of Britain and the European Union failing to reach an agreement on its divorce from the bl...
Bishop arrested in Kerala on charges of raping nun: policeA Roman Catholic bishop was arrested in Kerala on Friday on charges of raping a nun, police said, a day after the Vatican accepted the bishop's request to be temporarily relieved of his duties. There...