WASHINGTON: The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly adopted a resolution on Thursday calling Myanmar’s expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims a “genocide.” The
CHICAGO: A teenage gunman killed himself on Thursday at a school in Indiana, after being confronted by police officers who were alerted in advance of
JAKARTA: At least 300 villagers are hiding in a forest in Indonesia’s Papua province yesterday after they fled fighting between soldiers and separatists who killed
STRASBOURG, France: A gunman killed at least three people and wounded a dozen others at the famed Christmas market in the French city of Strasbourg
HERAT, Afghanistan: Starting before dawn has even broken, Afghanistan’s army of saffron pickers shift their way across sun-baked fields to pluck the brightly coloured crocuses
TOKYO: A Chinese man suspected of starting a fire inside a Tokyo war shrine at the centre of rows with Japan’s Asian neighbours was arrested
WELLINGTON: Vigils were held around New Zealand for murdered British backpacker Grace Millane on Wednesday, as her father thanked the South Pacific nation for an
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis has removed two prominent cardinals from his inner circle months after they were tainted by paedophile scandals and ahead of a
MARRAKESH, Morocco: A United Nations conference adopted a migration pact in front of leaders and representatives from over 160 countries in Morocco on Monday, despite
BANGKOK: Thailand’s junta on Tuesday lifted a ban on political campaigning ahead of 2019 elections, more than four years after the restriction was imposed following
