‘Jilted bride’: As South Korea marks peace summit, North stays aloofAlong forest trails below a bare mountain peak that until last year was a vantage point for a North Korean guard post, a group of around 20 ordinary South Koreans took a rare hike on Saturday near the...
Modi’s ‘free cooking gas’ leaves bitter taste for some IndiansReena Devi says her life changed when she got a cooking gas connection under a billion-dollar programme championed by India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, meaning she no longer has to cook with wood...
EU slams Trump’s withdrawal from UN arms trade treatyThe European Union warned Saturday that US President Donald Trump's rejection of a UN treaty designed to regulate the global arms trade would hamper the global fight against illicit weapons traffickin...
Sudan protesters, army rulers in breakthrough talks over civil ruleSudanese protesters Sunday welcomed a breakthrough in talks with army rulers who agreed to form a joint civilian-military council, paving the way for a civilian administration as demanded by demonstra...
Peru: Ex-president Kuczynski undergoes heart surgeryPeru's former president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, who is under arrest in connection with the Odebrecht corruption scandal and has been hospitalized for heart problems, underwent emergency surgery Saturda...
Clean your homes: police warn Notre-Dame neigbours over lead riskNeighbours of the fire-stricken Notre-Dame Cathedral should use wet wipes to clean surfaces at home or the office where lead-laden dust from the blaze may have settled, Paris police advised Saturday....
Leader of Cameroon’s main opposition party released by kidnappersThe chairman of Cameroon's main opposition party Ni John Fru Ndi has been released after being kidnapped earlier Saturday in the Northwest Region, one of two English-speaking provinces in the grip of...
UK campaigners gear up for EU vote in shadow of BrexitWith Brexit passions running high, campaigners are hitting Britain's streets and taking to social media ahead of European elections. Political parties old and new are gearing up for what has been desc...
Elite US Navy SEAL facing war crimes charges for killings in IraqStabbing a teenage prisoner to death, picking off a young girl and an old man with a sniper rifle and firing a heavy machine gun into a residential area: these are some of the charges facing an elite...
More than 270 died from overwork-related illnesses in Indonesia electionsTen days after Indonesia held the world's biggest single-day elections, more than 270 election staff have died, mostly of fatigue-related illneses caused by long hours of work counting millions of bal...
25 years after apartheid, many ‘South Africans ‘still not free’, says presidentA quarter of a century after the end of the apartheid in South Africa, large swathes of population still are not free given abject poverty and high unemployment and the scourge of corruption affecting...
Australian PM promises migration cut, refugee freeze if re-electedAustralian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, trailing in opinion polls ahead of a May 18 election, on Sunday campaigned on the hot-button issue of immigration, promising to cut annual migrant numbers and...
Iran’s Zarif plans North Korea visitIranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is planning to visit North Korea, Iran’s state television reported on Sunday, without giving the date of the visit. “The date of this trip will be set and...
Guaido makes new appeal to Venezuela army ahead of Mayday protestsVenezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido used his latest mass rally on Saturday to reiterate an appeal to the army to end its support for Nicolas Maduro's regime, and announced massive Mayday protest...
Hundreds of migrants in southern Mexico board ‘The Beast’ heading northHundreds of migrants hoping to reach the United States boarded a freight train in southern Mexico late on Thursday, frustrated by efforts to slow their progress by the Mexican government, which is und...
Spain’s far-right dominating social media with rhetoricJust like US President Donald Trump and France's Marine Le Pen, Spain's far-right party Vox has made a point of dominating social media with its hardline rhetoric ahead of elections on Sunday. Shunnin...
Cyclone kills one, leaves trail of destruction in MozambiqueCyclone Kenneth killed at least one person and left a trail of destruction in northern Mozambique, destroying houses, ripping up trees and knocking out power, authorities said on Friday. The cyclone b...
Shadow of sanctions could hit Venezuela’s sick hardestIn sanctions-scourged Venezuela, the sick suffer the most. Five-year-old Zabdiel needs a bone marrow transplant. Venezuela's government has stopped paying his treatment, blaming sanctions by the Unite...
Symbol of Sudan protest movement pushes for further changeSudanese student Alaa Salah emerged as a singing symbol of the protest movement that toppled leader Omar al-Bashir, and now insists she will keep demonstrating until civilian rule is secured. The 22-y...
Italy’s ‘zombie’ government lurches towards EU voteItaly's populist government is on its last legs, its bitterly warring coalition partners putting up with each other merely to avoid losing votes at the upcoming European elections, analysts say. The f...
Iconic places of protest around the worldThousands of anti-government protesters have been camped outside the Sudan army headquarters in Khartoum for three weeks, staying put to demand civilian rule even after Omar al-Bashir quit power on Ap...
‘Dream come true’: two new national parks born in Chilean PatagoniaThe foundation created by the late creator of US clothing brands Esprit and The North Face turned over 407,000 hectares (1 million acres) of forest, mountain, lakes and glaciers in Patagonia to the go...
Trump to hold White House talks with Slovak prime minister on May 3US President Donald Trump will discuss security cooperation and other issues with Slovak Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini in Washington on May 3, the White House said on Friday. It said "recent, positi...