There is a need for “genuine regional dialogue” to address rising tensions in the Gulf, Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations said on Monday, calling on […]

Indians in West Bengal state are attacking politicians for a rather unusual reason – they are demanding that bribes they paid be refunded. The state’s chief […]

More than 400 schools in the Malaysian state of Johor are closed after 75 students experienced breathing difficulties and vomiting. Schools in the industrial area of […]

Report says the Turkey’s ruling AK Party has lost control of Istanbul after a re-run of the city’s mayoral election, delivering a stinging blow to President […]

Report says the Indian paramilitary soldiers on Sunday reached the bodies of seven of eight members of an international climbing team who’d vanished on the country’s […]

Report says there is credible evidence that Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and other high-level officials are individually liable for the killing of Jamal […]

South Africa’s leading pro-euthanasia activist Sean Davison is to serve three years under house arrest for helping three people to kill themselves, report says According to […]

Some 2.2 billion people around the world do not have safely-managed drinking water, while 4.2 billion go without safe sanitation services and three billion lack basic […]

Hong Kong police and protesters faced off early Monday as authorities began trying to clear the streets of a few hundred who remained near the city government […]

Riot police fired tear gas, water cannon, and pepper spray after thousands of protesters surrounded the legislature and forced a delay in a debate over a […]

Pope Francis has lamented what he calls on us “culture of insults” in the world. In his homily during Pentecost Mass Sunday in St. Peter’s Square, […]

Cameroon tops the list, followed closely by DR Congo and Central African Republic. Cameroon tops the Norwegian Refugee Council’s annual list of the world’s most neglected […]

At least seven South Korean tourists have died and another 19 are missing after a tour boat sank on the Danube River in Budapest, according to the South […]

At least 18 civilians were killed on Monday as Syria’s regime intensified its bombardment of Idlib province, the last jihadist stronghold in the country’s northwest, a […]

AAt least 40 inmates were killed in four jails in northern Brazil on Monday over an apparent gang dispute, authorities said, in the latest wave of […]

Ethiopia’s foreign ministry has apologised after a map of Africa on its website incorporated neighbouring Somalia within its own borders. “We sincerely regret any confusion and […]

A knife-wielding man has attacked a group of schoolchildren waiting for a bus in a Japanese city near Tokyo. At least 18 people were injured on […]

The big centre-right and centre-left blocs in the European Parliament have lost their combined majority amid an increase in support for liberals, the Greens and nationalists. […]

At least 30 people died and hundreds were believed missing after a boat sank over the weekend in a lake in the Democratic Republic of Congo, […]

Huawei Founder and CEO Mr Ren Zhengfei has expressed confidence in the company’s business and capacity. In a statement that founder said the company had been […]