Cambodia’s Buddhist clergy divided over controversial pollBuddhist monk Sao Chanthol will cast his ballot for Cambodia's ruling party on Sunday, but the vote has exposed a deep fracture in the 60,000-strong clergy with some planning to stay home to protest a...
Death toll climbs to 88 from Greek wildfiresA woman has died in hospital taking the death toll from Greece's worst wildfires to 88, many of them children, officials said Saturday. The unnamed woman in her 40's had been in hospital since fire ra...
Many rooting for inmates after credit bug exposed on devicesOfficials say it was "intentional exploitation," while some inmates' families described it as more of a "glitch." Either way, reports that 364 Idaho inmates had a quarter-million dollars in credits im...
Comoros heads into violence-tarred referendum on constitutionVoters in the Comoros go to the polls on Monday for a politically explosive referendum overshadowed by a clampdown and an attempted assassination just days before the vote. Burdened by a long history...
Putin says Trump can ‘be my guest’ in Moscow, White House welcomes ideaRussian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday he wanted US President Donald Trump to be his guest in Moscow, an idea that the White House welcomed despite lingering criticism over the Helsinki summi...
Cambodia sets up polling stations; government critics call for election boycottAt the Toul Kork Primary School in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh volunteers swept classrooms and laid out wooden desks on Saturday, transforming rooms into polling booths ahead a general election P...
PM’s words mean little to fire-stricken Greeks standing on ashesGreek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras faced mounting criticism on Saturday after wildfires that killed at least 88 people plunged Greece into grief just as it was healing from years of painful bailouts....
Fraud risk looms over Zimbabwe’s post-Mugabe electionZimbabwe goes to the polls on Monday in its first election since authoritarian leader Robert Mugabe was ousted last year, with allegations mounting of voter fraud and predictions of a disputed result....
Ahed Tamimi, symbol of Mid East conflict, prepares for freedomA Palestinian teenager jailed by Israel for slapping and kicking Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank is to go free on Sunday after eight months behind bars. Ahed Tamimi was arrested on December...
DNA to X-ray: Military has variety of tools to ID remainsThe US military remains released by North Korea on Friday will be sent to a military lab in Hawaii, where they'll enter a system that routinely identifies service members from decades-old conflicts. I...
Disaster-hit Japan braces for powerful typhoonA powerful typhoon hurtled towards Japan on Saturday, prompting local authorities to issue early evacuation orders, with western areas recently devastated by floods and landslides in the storm's cross...
Gaza teen dies of wounds from Israeli border fire: ministryA Gaza teenager died of his wounds on Saturday after being shot by Israeli troops during protests along the border, the health ministry in the Hamas-run Palestinian territory said. A ministry statemen...
End paramilitary groups, brother of Nicaragua’s Ortega saysHumberto Ortega, the ex-head of Nicaragua's military, urged his brother President Daniel Ortega in a TV interview to disband the pro-Sandinista paramilitary forces blamed for deadly violence in months...
Polls open in Australia ‘Super Saturday’ by-electionsAustralia's political leaders made last-gasp bids to sway voters Saturday as polls opened in five by-elections that could see the conservative government boost its wafer-thin parliamentary majority. T...
Arms influx fuels Central African Republic violence — UN expertsDeliveries of Russian weapons to Central African Republic's security forces this year have pushed rebel groups to bolster their own stockpiles as they consolidate control over large parts of the count...
US says data on separated families not readily availableThe US government said in court filings on Thursday that it lacked the technical capability to quickly provide states with information about children separated from their parents at the US-Mexico bord...