Australia’s scandal-hit deputy PM quitsAustralia's scandal-hit deputy leader Barnaby Joyce announced Friday he was quitting and moving to the backbench amid claims of sexual harassment and controversy over an affair with a now-pregnant for...
South Korean MPs demand execution of North’s Olympic delegateSouth Korean lawmakers protested Friday over a visit by a top North Korean general for the Pyeongchang Olympics, labelling him a war criminal over the 2010 sinking of a warship and calling for his exe...
Easy fixes to school security prove elusive after Florida shootingTwo weeks before a gunman fatally shot 17 people at a Florida high school, Bill Lee, the president of the state's school administrators association, warned lawmakers that Florida's schools were vulner...
Bullfighting in Colombia under pressure from animal rights campaignWith his tight trousers and boots, Luis Miguel Castrillon is dressed to kill as he prances, feints and pirouettes around a charging bull. The crowd applauds, but for animal rights campaigners in Colom...
Tillerson raises prospect of Venezuelan military ouster of MaduroAUSTIN: US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Thursday raised the prospect that the Venezuelan military could decide to oust President Nicolas Maduro but said he did not know whether that would happe...
Clashes as IS-linked gunmen seek new Philippine base: militaryMonths after being routed from the southern Philippine city of Marawi, jihadists are waging a fresh and deadly bid to set up a Southeast Asian caliphate in the same region, the military warned Friday....
UN says 40 sex abuse accusations received last quarter of 2017UNITED NATIONS: Forty allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse were made during the last three months of 2017 against United Nations peacekeeping missions, agencies, funds and programs and impleme...
Myanmar bulldozed scores of Rohingya villages since November: HRWSatellite imagery shows Myanmar authorities have bulldozed at least 55 Rohingya villages in northern Rakhine in recent months, Human Rights Watch said Friday, condemning the government for erasing evi...
Trump, gun lobby chief push armed citizens as solution to shootingsPresident Donald Trump and America's powerful gun lobby on Thursday cast citizens with weapons as a solution to shootings, as it emerged an armed deputy was on campus during a deadly Florida rampage b...
California lawmakers struggle with #MeToo as senator resignsSACRAMENTO: Critics cite a state senator's dramatic resignation in highlighting the work to be done to change the culture of sexual misconduct in the California Legislature. Sen. Tony Mendoza succumbe...
Macerata, Italy’s reluctant immigration battleground“There's starting to be too many of them," says a young man at a bar in the central Italian city of Macerata. He does not wish to give his name, but the "them" he talks about are migrants, refugees an...
Cambodia’s ruling party set to sweep Senate electionPHNOM PENH: The ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) of Hun Sen is poised to sweep a Senate election at the weekend, helping to consolidate the prime minister's rule of more than 30 years amid a crac...
Maldives warns India against interfering as ties frayThe Maldives has warned India against interfering in its political crisis, deepening a rift with the country once seen as its closest ally. New Delhi has expressed concern about the situation in the h...