SINGAPORE: Extreme heat across large tracts of the Northern Hemisphere raised fears for crops in China, fuelled forest fires in Portugal and Russia's...
SINGAPORE: Extreme heat across large tracts of the Northern Hemisphere raised fears for crops in China, fuelled forest fires in Portugal and Russia's...
BRUSSELS: Belgian counter-terrorism police are investigating the motives of a suspected suicide bomber shot dead by troops guarding a Brussels railway station after...
Washington: Republican Karen Handel won a high-stakes, closely-watched special congressional election Tuesday, salvaging a seat in traditional conservative Georgia where Democrats had hoped...
KHARTOUM: Qamr al-Dawla Abdullah had never met his niece and nephew who grew up in Libya, where their father Yehia was killed fighting...
Astana, Kazakhstan: Internet providers in Kazakhstan have blocked access to the Washington-based Foreign Policy news website after it gave an unflattering review of...
Tokyo: Tokyo's famed Tsukiji fish market -- the world's biggest -- will be moved to a new location, the city's top official confirmed...
MOSUL: A French journalist has succumbed to wounds he sustained in a landmine explosion in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul, according to the...
ROME/TUNUSIA: At least 126 people are missing after a boat carrying migrants sank off the Libyan coast, the International Organization for Migration (IOM)...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: At least two navy officers were killed and three others wounded when armed gunmen on motorbikes opened fire on them in...
KHARTOUM: A prominent Sudanese journalist declared a one-man strike Monday to protest the confiscation of his newspaper -- for the third consecutive day...
CAIRO: A military court on Monday sentenced four civilians to death after convicting them of committing “acts of violence” in Egypt’s northern Kafr...
MOSCOW: Russia on Monday suspended a crucial safe flights over Syria deal with the U.S. under a memorandum after it shot down a...
Canberra: Australia on Tuesday said it had halted its airstrikes in Syria following a warning from Russia that it would target US coalition...
Berlin: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday she was prepared to consider new French President Emmanuel Macron's proposals for a shake-up of the...
Rome: Carla Fendi, who along with four sisters helped build her parents' leather and fur goods shop in Rome into a global fashion...
Cancún, Mexico: Ministers from the Organization of American States failed Monday to agree on a resolution to address the crisis in Venezuela, as...
BEIRUT: Heavy air strikes hit the Syrian city of Deraa on Tuesday as a ceasefire declared by the government expired, a witness in...
Kabul: Gunmen have killed eight Afghan guards working at the largest American base in Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday, as the US appears set...
