Macron dismisses bodyguard scandal as ‘storm in a teacup’French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday dismissed the scandal surrounding a top security aide who roughed up protesters as a “storm in a teacup”, as furious criticism from his opponents showed no...
Catholic magazine compares Italy’s Salvini to SatanAn Italian Catholic magazine on Wednesday likened to Satan Italy’s far-right interior minister Matteo Salvini who has pledged to halt migrant arrivals to the country and promised to speed up deportati...
Venezuela’s last anti-Maduro paper clings on as media intimidation growsThree hours before Venezuela’s El Nacional newspaper goes to print, a bare-bones staff of 20 journalists toils in its vast newsroom, surrounded by empty desks. A poster on a wall warns employees not t...
Philippine anti-graft chief and Duterte critic retiresThe Philippines’ top anti-corruption prosecutor, one of the few remaining critics of President Rodrigo Duterte in government, retired on Thursday, appealing for “strong institutions” over strong leade...
Indian police detain 450 after violent minority protestsAlmost 450 people were in custody in the Indian state of Maharashtra on Thursday after clashes between thousands of protestors from the Maratha minority and police charging with batons and firing tear...
Syria’s Red Crescent, UN begin delivering French aidSyrian relief workers and the United Nations began distributing humanitarian assistance provided by France to the battered region of Eastern Ghouta on Thursday, the Syrian Arab Red Crescent announced....
Japan, home of the high-tech loo, hopes basic toilet can save livesJapan may be famous for high-tech toilets, but one local firm is hoping a much more basic model can help solve deadly sanitation problems in developing countries. More than two billion people around t...
Suicide attack on Afghan intelligence convoy kills fiveA suicide bomber blew himself up near an Afghan intelligence convoy on Thursday, killing at least five people and wounding six, police said, in the latest deadly attack in the city. The Taliban claime...
Firefighters tackle blaze in London’s West Hampstead flatA huge fire broke out in a five-story residential building in London’s West Hampstead, forcing about 50 people to evacuate the block in the early hours of Thursday. About 100 firefighters and 15 fire...
Swedish student activist prevents deportation of Afghan manA Swedish student activist has prevented the deportation of an Afghan asylum-seeker by purchasing a ticket for the flight removing him and then refusing to sit down, preventing the plane from taking o...
Japan executes last sarin attack cult members on death rowJapan on Thursday executed the last members of the cult sentenced to death for their role in the fatal 1995 sarin attack on the Tokyo subway, weeks after the group's leader was hanged. The execution o...
Fujimori, loved and hated by fellow Peruvians, is quietly turning 80Peruvian ex-president Alberto Fujimori turns 80 on Saturday -- his first birthday in 12 years out of prison -- with his children, and the nation, sharply divided over his political legacy. "Let histor...
‘Urban island’ heat tests Phoenix, other large citiesWhen temperatures soar as they have this week in downtown Phoenix, homeless people ride the air-conditioned light rail to avoid a heat so brutal it killed 155 people in the city and surrounding areas...
Acting New Zealand PM tells Australia to change its flagNew Zealand's Acting Prime Minister Winston Peters called on neighbouring Australia to change its flag Thursday, saying it had pinched the Kiwi banner's design and was causing confusion. "We designed...
Greece searches for survivors after killer wildfireRescuers on Thursday searched the scorched land and the sea for survivors three days after a deadly wildfire ripped through the Greek coastal town of Mati killing at least 81 people. Desperate relativ...
N. Korea to return US war remains soon: reportNorth Korea will soon return the remains of some of the US soldiers killed in the Korean War, the South's Yonhap news agency reported Thursday, starting a process agreed by leader Kim Jong Un and US P...
Russia dismisses US Crimea declarationRussia scoffed at a US declaration saying that Washington would not accept Moscow's annexation of Crimea, suggesting Washington's Ukraine policy could change in the future. "We know the worth of these...
Floods from Laos dam collapse force evacuations in CambodiaThe torrent of water unleashed in a deadly Laos dam collapse has drained into Cambodia, forcing thousands to be evacuated, as rescuers on Thursday battled monsoon rains to find scores of Laotians stil...
Hun Sen: The wily political survivor in full control of CambodiaCambodian leader Hun Sen has outlasted the murderous Khmer Rouge, sidelined the monarchy and crushed his opponents in a 33-year rule defined by patronage, political agility and repression and which is...
South Korean firm backtracks on $130 billion ‘treasure ship’ gold claimsA South Korean company that claimed to have found the wreck of a Russian warship holding $130 billion in gold said on Thursday it has not verified the existence of any gold, while a financial watchdog...
11 House Republicans seek impeachment of DOJ’s RosensteinA group of 11 House conservatives introduced articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the Justice Department official who oversees special counsel Robert Mueller's Russi...
That’s cold: Japan tech blasts snoozing workers with ACJapanese office workers hoping to nod off on the job may need to sleep with one eye open thanks to a new system that can detect snoozers and blast them with cold air. Air conditioning manufacturer Dai...
Nearly 250 dead in IS attacks on south Syria: new tollThe death toll in coordinated Islamic State group suicide bombings and shootings in southern Syria rose to nearly 250 overnight, more than half of them civilians, a monitor said Thursday. Wednesday's...