Category: World

SINGAPORE: Singapore’s ruling party yesterday set in motion a carefully orchestrated political succession that will see the powerful founding family hand over the premiership, a

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh: As desperation swells in the squalid camps that are home to a million Rohingya refugees, long-dormant — and often deadly — trafficking

TAMPA: NASA is counting down to a nail-biting touchdown Monday of the $993 million Mars InSight, the first spacecraft to listen for quakes and study

HONG KONG: Three leading Hong Kong democracy campaigners pleaded not guilty yesterday to public nuisance charges over their involvement in massive rallies calling for political

NEW DELHI: Hundreds of “manual scavengers” die each year cleaning out sewers in cities across India but a machine unveiled for Monday’s World Toilet Day

BRUSSELS: European governments started to thrash out a plan for close ties with post-Brexit Britain yesterday in the last week before they gather to sign

SHANGHAI: African swine fever has spread rapidly to more than half of China’s provinces despite measures to contain it, the government said, warning that a

SYDNEY: Groups aligned with the Islamic state have warned of further attacks on Australia and other Western nations in online posters featuring the deadly lone

SINGAPORE: US Vice President Mike Pence said yesterday President Donald Trump plans to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in the new year but