Group: land activist murders keep rising, 2017 deadliest yetKillings of land and environmental activists rose in 2017 as Mexico and the Philippines registered worrying increases in such murders and Brazil saw the most ever registered in a single country, a wat...
Erdogan calls Israel ‘fascist’in new Netanyahu rowTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday called Israel a "fascist" state while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Turkey was becoming a "dark dictatorship" as the rivals engaged i...
In cyber, Germany needs to counter-attack, minister saysGermany is considering laws that would let it respond actively to foreign cyber-attacks, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer as he presented a domestic intelligence agency report showing Iran was the lat...
Ukraine teens pen plays to bridge war divideA boy flees his war-scarred hometown, leaving his mother behind. A gay youth struggles for acceptance from his parents. A gang harasses a young black footballer. These and other dramas took centre sta...
N Korea begins dismantling rocket test site: analystsNorth Korea has started dismantling some facilities at its main satellite launch station, seen as the testing ground for its intercontinental ballistic missiles, according to expert analysis of recent...
Thousands of Philippine poor nabbed in Duterte’s latest war — on loiteringEach night, police in teams of about a dozen fan out across the most rundown areas of the Philippine capital, rounding up slum-dwellers who linger in the streets, or teenagers who play in makeshift co...
Nicaragua’s Ortega refuses protest demands to step downNicaraguan President Daniel Ortega insisted Monday he will serve out his term until 2021, defying protesters demanding his resignation in three months of unrest that have left nearly 300 people dead....
Drug-fuelled HIV surge raises concerns at AIDS meetingCelebrities from actress Charlize Theron and pop star Elton John to Britain's Prince Harry will call for action on the second day of a world AIDS assembly in Amsterdam Tuesday, as concerns grow over a...
After painful search, Syrians learn detained relatives are long dead“That's it? You're sure he's dead?" Seven years had passed with no news, but Salwa could hardly believe her nephew, a Syrian activist arrested in 2011, had been dead the last five. That's what the civ...
Rights groups critical of muted international action ahead of ‘one-sided’ Cambodian pollThe US-funded National Democratic Institute (NDI) and rights groups say they are disappointed by the muted international action ahead of a general election in Cambodia on Sunday which long-serving Pri...
Venezuelan professor’s worn out shoes bring wave of solidarityJose Ibarra is 41, has a masters degree, is studying for a PhD and works as a university professor, but thanks to Venezuela's economic crisis, he cannot even afford to have his shoes repaired. Ibarra...
Ebola infects woman’s husband, sons, a year after she recovered: studyA woman who survived Ebola in July 2014 may have infected her husband and two sons more than a year later, said a study Tuesday, highlighting the need for "continued surveillance". The seeming virus "...
Sky’s no limit: Japan firm to fly wedding plaques into spaceThe sky is no longer the limit for lovers looking for unusual ways to commemorate their nuptials, with a Japanese company now offering to blast commemorative wedding plaques into space. Warpspace, a s...
Vietnam flood death toll rises to 27, more rain forecastThe death toll from floods and landslides triggered by tropical storm Son Tinh rose to 27 on Tuesday, and seven people are still missing, the government's Disaster Management Authority said. With a lo...
Reuters reporter arrested in Myanmar says he was ‘entrapped’A Reuters journalist charged with breaching a draconian secrecy law told a Myanmar court Tuesday he was entrapped by police while reporting with a colleague on a massacre of Rohingya, and had been abu...
‘Unprecedented’ Japan heatwave kills 65 in one weekAn "unprecedented" heatwave in Japan has killed at least 65 people in one week, government officials said Tuesday, with the weather agency now classifying the record-breaking weather as a "natural dis...
Thailand’s soccer boys prepare to ordain as Buddhist novicesThe young soccer teammates and their coach who were rescued after being trapped in a cave in northern Thailand took part in a Buddhist ceremony Tuesday as they prepared to be ordained to become Buddhi...