YANGON: Two Reuters journalists jailed for seven years while investigating atrocities committed against the Rohingya in Myanmar had their appeal dismissed yesterday, dismaying colleagues and
WELLINGTON: Dramatic video footage has emerged of a 122,000 tonne cruise liner narrowly missing a tiny dinghy with four people on board. The inflatable, carrying
WARSAW: Poland said yesterday it had arrested a Chinese telecoms executive suspected of spying for China, with local media identifying him as a Huawei director.
JOHANNESBURG: A South African primary school teacher was suspended on Thursday after a photograph appeared to show black children sitting separately from white children in
PATTANI (Thailand): Four Thai civil defence volunteers were gunned down yesterday at a school in the kingdom’s south with students just metres away, as bloodshed
KATHMANDU: A Nepali mother and her two children have died of suspected smoke inhalation after a night in a windowless hut where women are banished
HONG KONG: Fugitive former Thai premier Yingluck Shinawatra used a Cambodian passport to register a company in Hong Kong, records show, lending weight to reports
AL-ANAD AIR BASE (Yemen): A rebel drone hit Yemen’s largest air base yesterday, killing six loyalist soldiers during a military parade in an attack which
SEOUL: Chinese President Xi Jinping offered North Korean leader Kim Jong Un firm backing in deadlocked nuclear talks with the United States, insisting the two
KHARTOUM: Hundreds of people gathered in Sudan’s capital Wednesday in a show of support for President Omar al-Bashir’s embattled regime after deadly anti-government protests erupted
