Wildfires raged Sunday across much of California forcing hundreds to evacuate homes as the most populous US state sweltered in record heat. About 5,000 fire crew members were battling 14 large...
The leader of Turkey's main opposition party was on Sunday to address a mass rally in Istanbul at the culmination of an almost month-long march, in a rare challenge to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan....
The first major wildfires after the end of California's five-year drought raged across the state Saturday as it was gripped by a record-breaking heatwave. Around 2,300 firefighters were battling...
Indian authorities are moving to strip Mumbai's railway stations of their British names, an official said Friday, as leaders seek to purge the city of remnants of its colonial past. Elphinstone Road...
Japan's chief atomic energy regulator has acknowledged it was inappropriate to say it would be "much better" if North Korea dropped a missile on Tokyo rather than on a nuclear plant. Shunichi Tanaka,...
The governor of Virginia on Thursday refused to grant a last-minute stay of execution to a mentally disturbed death row inmate convicted of killing a prison guard and a police officer during a...
A 6.5-magnitude earthquake killed at least one person in the central Philippines on Thursday, with at least five more people trapped inside a collapsed commercial building, officials said. Rescuers...
Two top UN rights officials added their voices Wednesday to a growing chorus of appeals to Virginia's governor to spare the life of a mentally disturbed man found guilty of killing a police officer...
Virginia is preparing to kill a 32-year-old man using a controversial lethal injection formula that may have subjected the last prisoner to be executed by the state to an excruciating death...
Moroccan security forces have begun withdrawing from the restive northern cities of Al-Hoceima and Imzouren, which have been rocked by weeks of social unrest, officials and residents said. A...
Boko Haram jihadists have kidnapped 37 women and slit the throats of nine other people at a village in southeastern Niger, the regional governor said Tuesday. The attack happened on Sunday at the...
He's a Donald Trump ally with abysmal approval ratings and now the governor of New Jersey has sparked fresh outrage after being photographed lounging on a beach closed to the public because of a...
The Syrian Central Bank has released the war-ravaged country's largest currency note yet, featuring the face of President Bashar al-Assad for the first time. The new 2,000 pound note went into...
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said his party's stinging defeat in weekend Tokyo assembly elections represented a "severe criticism", after it lost over half its seats in the vote in a historic...
Embattled Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's conservative party was set for a major defeat in the Tokyo assembly election Sunday, exit polls showed, as he struggles with a series of setbacks and...
Tokyo goes to the polls Sunday in a local election that could have national consequences as the capital's governor mounts a challenge to the party of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose popularity has...
Barack Obama called for tolerance and respect in his childhood home of Indonesia Saturday, amid rising religious tensions in the country where the former US president spent four years as a boy. At...
A two- day regional course on Financial and Economic Issues by West Africa Institute for Financial and Economic Management (WAIFEM) in-collaboration with the African Capacity Building Foundation...
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) insisted Friday the showpiece venue for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Games would be completed on schedule after a disastrous rollout of the initial plans. Japanese...
New York's governor on Thursday declared the public transport system of America's biggest city in a "state of emergency," as he pledged $1 billion toward renovation, two days after dozens of subway...
