DAKAR: Children in conflict-ravaged central Democratic Republic of Congo are suffering ‘terrible acts of abuse’, having been forced into armed groups, drugged and...
DAKAR: Children in conflict-ravaged central Democratic Republic of Congo are suffering ‘terrible acts of abuse’, having been forced into armed groups, drugged and...
DAKAR: Escalating militia violence and a surge in attacks on aid workers in northern Mali are restricting the delivery of food and healthcare...
ABOARD the MS AQUARIUS: Fishermen at a Tunisian port on Sunday prevented a ship carrying far-right anti-immigration activists from docking, dealing a fresh...
YANGON: Aung San Suu Kyi’s first major infrastructure project could hardly be more visible - hundreds of new yellow buses now plying the...
VIENNA: Twin panda cubs born and raised at Vienna Zoo celebrated their first birthday very differently on Monday: one gorged on snacks in...
DUBAI: A small fire broke out a Dubai hotel on Monday, forcing guests and staff to leave, in the third such blaze in...
RAMALLAH, West Bank: Jordan’s King Abdallah will meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Monday for the first time...
TOKYO: A weakening Typhoon Noru made landfall in central Japan on Monday, pounding some regions with more than a month’s worth of rain,...
BERLIN: Britain will have to keep making payments for long-term programmes to the European Union until at least 2020, even after it leaves...
NEW DELHI: Tens of thousands of flood survivors in India’s remote northeast are at risk of contracting diseases such as malaria and Japanese...
MUMBAI: An indigenous man who lived in a tree house for two years after his home was damaged in a south Indian forest,...
Manila: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi urged North Korea on Sunday to make a "smart decision", after the United Nations imposed tough new...
Nairobi: At the Machakos bus station in Nairobi, hundreds of people are bumping into each other, tickets held firmly on one hand, the...
Nouakchott: Counting began on Saturday in Mauritania after a referendum on constitutional changes sought by President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who derided the...
TEHRAN: Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said that his administration and country will show a "unified" response to a breach of the 2015 landmark...
New York: An old construction barge planted with vegetables, apple trees and fragrant herbs is giving apartment-dwelling New Yorkers a chance to pick...
Kigali: Rwandans yesterday celebrated the third term victory of President Paul Kagame who pledged to continue transforming the nation after winning re-election with...
TORONTO: Nearly 270 people have died in Canadian provincial jails over the past five years. Two-thirds of them were legally innocent. The high...
