The Zimbabwean government has agreed to pay Christmas bonuses of last year next month. The agreement averts a day-old sit-in strike by civil servants. Just as the government pays salaries, the...
The Trump administration's top trade advisor said Monday US trade deficits are a threat to national security that could cause the loss of American freedom and prosperity. Outlining an...
The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) warned Monday that Indonesia faces "huge" challenges to prepare for the 2018 Asian Games, criticising a lack of coordination between different bodies organising the...
North Korea has launched four ballistic missiles towards the Sea of Japan. Three of them fell into Japan's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) after flying some 1,000km (620 miles), in what PM Shinzo Abe...
The director of national intelligence at the time of the US election has denied there was any wire-tapping of Donald Trump or his campaign. James Clapper also told NBC that he knew of no court order...
British Prime Minister Theresa May is unlikely to bow to political expedience in Brexit negotiations but will make up her own mind about what she believes is best and refuse to give ground - that's...
A helicopter conducting a mountain rescue exercise crashed with nine local officials aboard in Japan on Sunday and at least three people are feared dead, officials and media reports said. A police...
US President Donald Trump has been urged to provide evidence to back his allegation that his predecessor, Barack Obama, ordered his phones to be tapped during the election campaign. Republican...
China's premier warned Sunday that the world's second-largest economy faces "grave challenges", signalling a further deceleration as he announced a trimmed 2017 GDP growth target of "around 6.5...
China's rubber-stamp legislature opens its annual session on Sunday with Premier Li Keqiang due to announce the government's 2017 growth target for the world's second largest economy and major policy...
President Donald Trump's accusation that his predecessor ordered his phones to be tapped is "simply false", Barack Obama's spokesman has said. Kevin Lewis said that "neither President Obama nor any...
North Korea warned Saturday that the US will "pay dearly" if it relists Pyongyang as a state sponsor of terrorism following the murder of leader Kim Jong-Un's half-brother in Malaysia last month. Kim...
China will raise defence spending by "around seven percent" this year as it guards against "outside meddling" in its disputed territorial claims in Asian waters, a top official said Saturday. "We...
Women and children crossing together illegally into the United States could be separated by U. S. authorities under a proposal being considered by the Department of Homeland Security, according to...
President Donald Trump has defended Attorney General Jeff Sessions as "an honest man" amid calls for him to quit. The Democrats say Mr Sessions "lied on oath" at his confirmation hearing about...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is set to press Tunisian leaders to step up efforts to help curb an influx of illegal migrants to her country during a visit on Friday. Her two-day trip, which also...
US fighter jets pounded Al-Qaeda targets in Yemen for a second straight day on Friday, security and tribal sources said, as Washington steps up its air war against the jihadists. The Pentagon said it...
Democrats have stepped up their attacks on Attorney General Jeff Sessions, saying his explanation regarding his contacts with the Russian ambassador in 2016 were “simply not credible”. But...
Democrats say they remain unconvinced by Attorney General Jeff Sessions' latest comments regarding his contacts with the Russian ambassador in 2016. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is leading...
Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, whose novel "2084" depicted a dystopian state governed by religious law, says writers and artists need to join the fight against Islamic extremism. "Literature and the...
