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Low turnout at anti-nuclear rally as Taiwan pins hope on new leader

An annual anti-nuclear rally in Taiwan today saw a much lower turnout than previous years as president-elect Tsai Ing-wen vows to abolish the use of atomic energy on the island by...

Turkey hits PKK targets in Iraq with air strikes

Turkey's air force bombarded Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) targets in northern Iraq this week, killing 67 rebel fighters, the military said today, the first such strikes in nearly a month. The...

Greece says will fix Idomeni camp overflow ‘within week’

Greece aims to deal swiftly with the migrant overflow at the Idomeni refugee camp on the Greek-Macedonian border where some 12,000 people are camping in miserable conditions waiting to...

Iraq cleric calls for Baghdad protest camp

Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr today urged his followers to ramp up pro-reform rallies by setting up tents in front of Baghdad's 'Green Zone' and camping out until their demands are met. The Shia...

President’s troops partially break siege of Yemen’s third city

Troops loyal to Yemen's president have captured the western entrance to the strategic city of Taiz in an effort to break a siege by Houthi fighters, medical and military sources said today. At...

Riot breaks out at Alabama prison

A riot broke out at a prison in southern Alabama, authorities said today, and a local news website said inmates had set fires and overturned beds. An unidentified dispatcher with the Escambia...

India bans over 300 combination medicines

India has banned the manufacture and sale of more than 300 combination medicines, including two widely used cough syrups, being sold without government approval, a senior health ministry official...

US, South Korea stage assault drill, North threatens to wipe out enemies

US and South Korean troops staged a big amphibious landing exercise today, storming simulated North Korean beach defences amid heightened tension and threats by the North to annihilate its...

Teen girls charged in France over ‘concert hall attack plot’

Two teenage girls have been charged in France with allegedly plotting to assault a Paris concert hall some four months after the nation's deadliest terror attacks, legal sources said today. The...

US accuses Uganda of rights violations after presidential vote

Uganda has persistently violated the rights of its citizens and media in the aftermath of last month's presidential election which saw President Yoweri Museveni retain his hold on power, the...

Dalai Lama urges education reform to end human cruelty

The Dalai Lama called for dramatic education reforms to put more emphasis on values such as compassion. "Frankly speaking, our generation, not much hope," the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader...

US general in Korea named Nato’s supreme commander

Nato said it was naming General Curtis Scaparrotti, commander of US forces in South Korea, to become its top commander in Europe. Scaparrotti, who replaces US General Philip Breedlove, will...

London conference puts spotlight on North Korean rights abuses

The UN commissioner who investigated human rights in North Korea recommended establishing a panel of experts to study how crimes against humanity in the reclusive state can be punished. "What...

Peruvians march against Keiko Fujimori after rivals barred from elections

Thousands of Peruvians marched in downtown Lima to demand the electoral board bar presidential frontrunner Keiko Fujimori from next month's vote after it disqualified two of her rivals in an...

US asks UN Security Council to meet on Iran missile tests Monday

The United States has asked the UN Security Council to discuss Iran's recent ballistic missile launches during a meeting on Monday, the US ambassador said. The United States is "deeply...

Russian religious leaders condemn ruling on organ removal without consent

Russian Jewish and Christian leaders protested over a constitutional court ruling legalising the removal of organs for transplant without the consent of relatives. "We understand that organs...

North Korean submarine missing

A North Korean submarine is missing, reports said today, as the reclusive state issued a fresh threat of retaliation against US and South Korean forces involved in joint military drills. The...

Venezuelan newspaper editor gets 4 years jail

A court in Venezuela has sentenced a newspaper editor to four years in prison for defamation after the paper investigated alleged corruption at a major company, the newspaper said. Critics...

Stars, political elite bid farewell to Nancy Reagan

Hollywood stars and political powerbrokers past and present gathered to hear glowing tributes to former first lady Nancy Reagan before her burial beside her husband at the Reagan presidential...

Obama woos tech community amid Apple battle

President Barack Obama yesterday addressed the SXSW – the technology world's Davos and Woodstock rolled into one – making a recruitment pitch to America's whizkids, even as the government is...