Hanoi: A former Vietnamese lawmaker has been sentenced to life in prison for fraud after she pocketed $16 million in down-payments from would-be...
Hanoi: A former Vietnamese lawmaker has been sentenced to life in prison for fraud after she pocketed $16 million in down-payments from would-be...
Paris: Ten people have been arrested in France over a suspected plot to target politicians and mosques, a source close to the investigation...
BAGHDAD/KIRKUK: The Baghdad government recaptured territory from Kurds across the breadth of northern Iraq on Tuesday, making startlingly rapid gains in a sudden...
CARACAS: President Nicolas Maduro’s leftist government defended Venezuela’s election system on Tuesday as his opponents struggled to present a united front on allegations...
Washington: The US Justice Department announced Tuesday the indictment of two Chinese producers of fentanyl, the synthetic opioid that causes a rising share...
Jerusalem: Israel's government decided Tuesday not to negotiate with a Palestinian unity government that includes Hamas if the Islamist movement does not disarm,...
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan: Uzbekistan has released a human rights activist who spent eight years in jail, on charges which rights groups called trumped up,...
BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Tuesday the Kurdish independence referendum held last month in northern Iraq “is finished and has...
Barcelona: Thousands of people took to the streets of Catalonia Tuesday after a judge ordered the detention of two separatist leaders, further inflaming...
NEW DELHI: Trade unions on Tuesday hailed a landmark ruling allowing complaints to proceed against two global fashion brands for allegedly violating an...
Washington: The next US ambassador to the Vatican is no veteran diplomat: Callista Gingrich is the third wife of Newt Gingrich, the former...
RAQQA, Syria/BEIRUT: Kurdish groups who led the fight against Islamic State in its former capital Raqqa must navigate a complex peace to avoid...
VALLETTA: The son of Malta’s best-known investigative journalist said on Tuesday his mother was killed by a car bomb because of her work...
OSLO: Fiji called on Tuesday for “absolute dedication” to the strictest limits on global warming as it prepares to preside at U.N. talks...
BEIRUT: The Syrian army and allied forces pushed into the remaining Islamic State-held districts of Deir al-Zor city in eastern Syria on Tuesday,...
Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh: Some 582,000 Rohingya refugees have now fled Myanmar for Bangladesh since late August, the United Nations said Tuesday, warning that...
BAGHDAD/KIRKUK: The Baghdad government recaptured territory across the breadth of northern Iraq from Kurds on Tuesday, widening a sudden and dramatic campaign that...
LISBON, Portugal: Overnight rain and winds helped firefighters tame wildfires that devoured homes and people in their cars, leaving 36 dead in Portugal...
