The system will make it easier for tourists to enter the country, thanks to the online capture of visa applications and biometric information, the department said.

Bolivia’s former leader Evo Morales landed in Mexico on Tuesday pledging to keep up his political “fight”, as security forces back home quelled unrest over the leftist’s resignation and the country sought an interim replacement to fill a power vacuum. Morales thanked Mexico for “saving his life” as he arrived to take up asylum in […]

South Africa will start the piloting process for an online e-visa system later this month in a fresh bid to attract more tourists, according to the Department of Home Affairs (DHA). This new electronic self-service solution system will speedily facilitate the movement of low-risk travellers, according to the department. The system will make it easier […]

An evil mother and her half-brother have been jailed for life for murdering their two sons and trying to kill four other children they had through an incestuous relationship. Sarah Barrass and her half-brother Brandon Machin had six children together but tried to kill them all rather than hand the youngsters over to the care […]

A domestic flight in India was delayed for nearly 12 hours after a rat was spotted scampering around the aircraft, news reports and officials said on Tuesday. Air India flight AI-952 was preparing for take-off from the southern city of Hyderabad for Vishakapatnam, a coastal city, early on Sunday, when the rodent was seen running […]

Bolivia’s former president, Evo Morales, was flying to Mexico on Tuesday after fleeing his South American homeland, seeking refuge under a leftist government that has supported the veteran socialist in the wake of a disputed election. Bolivia’s first indigenous president came under Mexico’s protection after he departed Bolivia late on Monday on a Mexican Air […]

Dozens of people are dead or badly injured after two busy trains crashed in an early-morning collision in Bangladesh. Passengers described how the trains were ripped to shreds in the crash that claimed the lives of at least 16 people at 3am. Three coaches were sent crashing off the tracks at Mondobhag station in the […]

An elephant named after the late Al-Qaeda terror leader Osama bin Laden that killed five Indian villagers has been caught after a massive operation to hunt down the creature. Wildlife officers tracked the pachyderm – dubbed ‘Laden’ by the locals it menaced in northeastern Assam state – through a forest for several days using drones […]

The Netherlands must endeavor to repatriate 56 Dutch children born to 23 Dutch women who had joined the ISIS (Islamic State) in Syria, a court ruled here on Monday

A Chinese zoo keeper left her handset in her office to get food for a primate she brought up. Unknowingly to her, the monkey has always been watching her purchase goods on e-commerce platforms. The female keeper, Lv Mengmeng claimed the animal had once picked up her phone to poke at the screen. The monkey […]

Mexico’s government views the resignation of Bolivia’s president as a coup because the Bolivian military had broken with the constitution by pressing him to stand down, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Monday. “It’s a coup because the army requested the resignation of the president, and that violates the constitutional order of that country,” […]

Turkey has begun sending captured foreign Islamic State (IS) members back to their original countries as of Monday, a Turkish official said. “A U.S. IS fighter, whose procedure has been completed, is deported on Monday morning,” the Interior Ministry Spokesperson Ismail Catakli told semi-official Anadolu news agency. One German and one Danish IS fighters will […]

Social unrest worldwide is alarming some global investors, who say protests from Hong Kong and Lebanon to Chile are forcing them to be more cautious even though the impact on financial markets has been spotty so far. Investors at the Reuters Global 2020 Investment Outlook Summit last week were particularly concerned about Hong Kong, where […]

French President Emmanuel Macron’s critical remarks about NATO were “dangerous”, Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said in an interview published on Sunday evening by the Financial Times. Macron told The Economist last week that NATO was experiencing “brain death”, citing a lack of coordination and U.S. unpredictability under President Donald Trump. The French leader also […]

The United States police arrested seventeen people including two employees of Disney linked to child pornography operation. The sting operation in Central Florida includes one man who was caught while attempting to meet a child for sexual favours. A child pornography sting operation in Central Florida has led to the arrest of 17 people, including […]