France restricts diplomats’ travel to IranFrance has told its diplomats and foreign ministry officials to postpone indefinitely all non-essential travel to Iran, citing a foiled bomb plot and a hardening of Tehran's attitude towards France, a...
Iran tells UN court ‘time running out’ under US sanctionsIran told the UN's top court Wednesday that "time is running out" for its people as they suffer economic turmoil that Tehran blames on renewed US sanctions. Iran was making its closing arguments in a...
Israeli court lines up behind unauthorised settlementAn Israeli court has given legal recognition to a Jewish settlement built without Israeli government authorisation on privately owned Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank, breaking new judicial...
As Nigeria elections loom, refugees ordered back to unsafe regionNigerian government officials have ordered thousands of displaced people to return to an unsafe area as pressure mounts to show progress in the war against Islamist groups ahead of a presidential elec...
‘Ghetto President’ shakes up Ugandan politicsThe arrest this month of a 35-year-old legislator who calls himself "Ghetto President" has sparked fierce street protests in Uganda. Musician-turned-MP Robert Kyagulanyi represents a new challenge to...
Activists held in Greece for aiding migrantsPolice in Greece on Tuesday said they had arrested three members of a Greek NGO on suspicion of helping migrants illegally enter the country. The members of Emergency Response Centre International (ER...
Myanmar rejects UN probe findings of Rohingya ‘genocide’Myanmar Wednesday rejected the findings of a UN investigation alleging genocide by its military against the Rohingya, after the US and other countries joined growing calls for them to face justice. Ma...
Iran’s Khamenei says ready to abandon nuclear deal if neededIran's supreme leader warned on Wednesday the country could abandon its nuclear deal with world powers if it no longer served its interests, even as economic and political pressure mounted on the gove...
UN demands urgent action amid ‘climate of fear’ in NicaraguaThe United Nations called Wednesday for urgent action to prevent Nicaragua from descending further into turmoil after months of violent repression of protests against President Daniel Ortega's rule. I...
Trump unblocks more Twitter users after US court rulingUS President Donald Trump on Tuesday unblocked some additional Twitter users after a federal judge in May said preventing people from following him violated individuals constitutional rights. US Distr...
Once considered too extreme, Brazilian right-winger homes in on presidencWhen Jair Bolsonaro addressed a crowd in a poor, violent area of Rio de Janeiro this week, the man long considered too extreme for the nation's presidency was greeted with shouts of "the myth, the myt...
News media hesitates to use ‘lie’ for Trump’s misstatementsPresident Donald Trump has been accused of dishonesty, spreading falsehoods, misrepresenting facts, distorting news, passing on inaccuracies and being loose with the truth. But does he lie? It's a loa...
Trump warns of violent change if Republicans lose midtermsUS President Donald Trump warned evangelical leaders that if Republicans lose control of Congress in the midterm elections, Democrats will institute change "quickly and violently," The New York Times...
German city takes down golden Erdogan statue after outcryThe German city of Wiesbaden removed Wednesday a temporary statue of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan set up in a town square by artists, after it sparked confrontations between his supporters a...
Liberal Democrat and Trump-backed Republican to face off for Florida governorLiberal mayor Andrew Gillum pulled off a stunning upset in the Democratic primary for Florida governor on Tuesday, beating several better-funded rivals to set up a November showdown against a Republic...
S Korea doctors protest over tougher abortion restrictionsSouth Korea, one of the few industrialised countries where abortion is largely illegal, has introduced tougher regulations on the procedure, prompting nearly 2,000 doctors to refuse to carry out termi...
Iran has arrested ‘dozens of spies’: intelligence ministerIran's intelligence minister said on Tuesday that "dozens of spies" had been arrested as part of a crackdown on espionage and dual nationals. "Financially and through other means, our enemies try to g...
Myanmar dam breach floods communities in central region, blocks highwayWater from a breached dam flooded communities in central Myanmar on Wednesday and blocked part of a highway linking the main cities of Yangon, Mandalay and the capital Naypyitaw, fire officials said....
Indian police break up protest against arrest of activistsIndian police have broken up a protest and detained around two dozen people opposing the arrests this week of five prominent rights activists for suspected links to Maoist rebels in various parts of t...
Malaysian ex-spy chief detained over theft of poll fundsA controversial Malaysian former spy chief was remanded in custody Wednesday over the alleged theft of funds intended to be used for a historic general election in May. Hasanah Abdul Hamid, ex-head of...
Suicide car bomber kills 11 in western IraqA suicide bomber blew up a vehicle in the town of Al-Qaim in western Iraq on Wednesday, killing at least 11 people, five of them security personnel, police said. The 9 am (0600 GMT) bombing at a check...