File photo Port-au-Prince: Haiti's electoral authority has postponed Sunday's planned presidential run-off vote, amid mounting opposition street protests and voting fraud allegations. Pierre-Louis...
File photo Port-au-Prince: Haiti's electoral authority has postponed Sunday's planned presidential run-off vote, amid mounting opposition street protests and voting fraud allegations. Pierre-Louis...
By Ayesha Rascoe and Dustin Volz WASHINGTON: The U.S. government will set up a new agency to do background checks on employees and...
By Anjali Athavaley NEW YORK: Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump retweeted an account called “@WhiteGenocideTM” on Friday, prompting a backlash on social media...
Sao Paulo: Alarm over thousands of birth defects blamed on mosquito-borne virus Zika spread Friday, as the United States expanded a travel warning...
FRANKFURT: Many of Volkswagen’s managers and staff dealing with emissions problems in the engine-development department knew about “defeat devices” being developed, Germany’s Sueddeutsche...
Dushanbe, Tajikistan: Tajikistan's parliament on Friday backed changing the constitution to allow the ex-Soviet country's long-serving president Emomali Rakhmon to run for office...
Pablo Iglesias Madrid: The leader of Spain's anti-austerity party Podemos on Friday proposed forming a government with the Socialists, making a left-wing governing...
Vatican City: Pope Francis spoke out Friday over the increasingly aggressive nature of much political discourse and the use of social media as...
Berlin: A man who tried to attack a police station in Paris this month had no links to Islamist networks, German authorities said...
DAVOS: The Mexican government is speeding up efforts to extradite notorious drug boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to the United States after his...
Istanbul: US Vice President Joe Biden on Friday strongly criticised Turkey for failing to set the right "example" on freedom of expression, following...
French opposition leader Nicolas Sarkozy with President Francois Hollande Paris: With little more than a year to go before presidential elections, French opposition...
Representative image ATHENS: At least 42 people, including 17 children, drowned when their boats capsized off two Greek islands near the Turkish coast...
London: Treasures belonging to the last of the Mitford sisters, who fascinated and scandalised British society of the 1930s, are going under the...
Moscow: At least 39 people have died of swine flu in Russia since last month, according to AFP calculations based on official data,...
Davos, Switzerland: Countries around the world should increase their donations for refugee aid by 30 per cent to tackle the unprecedented global refugee...
Spanish King Felipe (L) greets Ciudadanos party leader Albert Rivera before their meeting at Zarzuela Palace in Madrid, Spain, January 21, 2016. REUTERS ...
Relatives carry the body of their kin killed in an attack at beachside restaurant Beach View Cafe on Lido beach, in Somalia's capital...
