PORT MORESBY: A camp in Papua New Guinea housing refugees and asylum seekers, sent there under Australia’s harsh immigration policy, was on fire yesterday after
PHILADELPHIA: Fire ripped through a Pennsylvania oil refinery early yesterday, triggering a huge explosion that local media said rocked homes several miles away. Video footage
BEIJING: Chinese police have rescued over 1,100 women from Southeast Asia who were “sold” as wives last year, authorities said yesterday. Seventeen children were also
MAARET AL-NUMAN (Syria): Regime bombardment killed 20 civilians including eight children and three rescue workers in jihadist-run north-west Syria Thursday, as fighting killed dozens on
BRUSSELS: The EU piled fresh pressure on Russia on Thursday, extending punishing economic sanctions and demanding Moscow cooperate with a Dutch probe into the downing
LONDON: British police said yesterday they had arrested 44 people as part of an investigation into historical child sex abuse in northern England. West Yorkshire
GUATEMALA CITY: Guatemala will audit election returns after fraud allegations in the wake of last Sunday’s presidential and legislative elections, the country’s Supreme Electoral Court
ANKARA: Voters in Istanbul will take part in a re-run of the mayoral election tomorrow after a vote in March was annulled over alleged irregularities. Local
MUZAFFARPUR (India): Five-year-old Soni Khatun was playing in the midday sun last week when she began to vomit and lose feeling in her hands. Her
MADRID: Spain’s Supreme Court was set to examine a case yesterday so controversial it sparked mass protests after five men accused of gang-raping a woman
