Paris: Traditionally Catholic Ireland has announced a referendum in May on easing some of the strictest legislation in Europe that imposes a near-total...
Paris: Traditionally Catholic Ireland has announced a referendum in May on easing some of the strictest legislation in Europe that imposes a near-total...
Sochi, Russia: The opening of Russia's showpiece congress aimed at bringing Syria's seven-year war to an end was delayed by at least two...
Beijing, China vowed Tuesday to force both local and foreign companies and individuals to use only government-approved software to access the global internet,...
TOKYO, A Japanese woman who was forcibly sterilised as a teenager due to intellectual disabilities sued the government on Tuesday in the first...
LONDON, The Iranian authorities have released most of the people arrested during December's anti-government protests but around 300 remain in jail facing charges,...
SOCHI, Russia, A Syrian peace conference in Russia got off to a rocky start on Tuesday after some delegates opposed to President Bashar...
PARACHINAR, Pakistan, An explosion ripped through a car on Tuesday killing six members of a family driving to a Pakistan village to attend...
Sydney, Australia's biggest bank, the Commonwealth, was Tuesday taken to court by the corporate watchdog over allegations it rigged the benchmark interest rate,...
THE HAGUE: The Syrian government's chemical weapons stockpile has been linked for the first time by laboratory tests to the largest sarin nerve...
New Delhi, An eight-month-old Indian girl was Tuesday recovering in hospital after she was raped at her home in Delhi, the latest such...
Hualien, Taiwan: Taiwan troops staged live-fire exercises Tuesday to simulate fending off an invasion, as the island's main threat China steps up pressure...
WASHINGTON, The ailing US coal industry is ramping up its political and legal offensive to win approval for West Coast export terminals that...
HONG KONG: The European Union on Tuesday criticised the Hong Kong government's decision to bar a 21-year-old activist from standing for election, saying...
The US identified some of Russia’s richest tycoons and allies of President Vladimir Putin for potential sanctions, ratcheting up pressure over alleged Kremlin...
BEIJING: The wife of detained Chinese rights lawyer Yu Wensheng said on Tuesday her husband had been charged with "inciting subversion of state...
Washington: Russian election interference has not stopped and Moscow can be expected to meddle in the 2018 US vote, Central Intelligence Agency Director...
Washington: A US government watchdog said Tuesday the Pentagon has barred it from disclosing how much of Afghanistan is under Taliban control --...
Moscow/Donetsk, Ukraine: In the fall of 2015, pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine were introduced to a moustachioed new commander who, like his predecessors, went...
