Tunisians will go to polls on Sunday to vote in legislative elections amid political and economic challenges.

Hong Kong’s pro-democracy activists on Sunday failed to secure the temporary suspension of a new ban on face masks at demonstrations.

Four days before U.S. President Donald Trump was inaugurated in Jan. 2017, the outgoing vice president, Joe Biden, was in Ukraine – his sixth visit in seven years – to deliver a rousing farewell speech.

A homeless man wielding a long metal bar rampaged through New York City’s Chinatown early Saturday attacking other homeless people who were sleeping, killing four and leaving a fifth with serious injuries, police said. Police recovered the weapon, which was still in the suspect’s hands when he was arrested, officials said. “The motive appears to […]

A request to exhume the remains of infamous US gangster John Dillinger has been approved by officials in Indiana. Dillinger’s relatives have been pressing for the permit, saying an imposter is buried at Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, according to BBC report. The FBI says its agents shot dead the gangster in Chicago in 1934, […]

The United Nations urged Saturday an end to violence in Iraq, after five days of anti-government rallies marred by the killing of nearly 100 people, mainly protesters. The demonstrations which have evolved from initial demands for employment and better services to the fall of the government  carried on into the night in various neighbourhoods of […]

The United States has denied that its day of nuclear talks with North Korea ended in failure, insisting that “good discussions” were had. Earlier, North Korea said the meeting had broken down because the US brought “nothing to the negotiation table”. Officials from the two countries met in Sweden on Saturday, in the hope of […]

Six elephants have fallen to their deaths in Thailand while trying to save each other from a notorious waterfall. Officials said the incident occurred after a baby elephant slipped over the waterfall in central Thailand’s Khao Yai National Park. Two other elephants were also found struggling on a cliff edge nearby, and have been moved […]

A military court in Cameroon has freed opposition leader Maurice Kamto, who had been in prison for nine months and facing charges of insurrection. His release, along with that of dozens of his supporters, comes as President Paul Biya is aiming to strike a more conciliatory tone. Mr Kamto was detained after organising protests in […]

A Thai judge who tried to kill himself in court after accusing his superiors of interfering with his verdicts has highlighted questions about judicial independence and fairness in the country. Judge Khanakorn Pianchana shot himself in the chest in the southern province of Yala after acquitting five defendants of charges that could have condemned three […]

Vietnam and Cambodia have signed two documents to settle the last 16 percent of their border that had yet to be demarcated. The document was signed on Saturday, on the second day of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s official visit to Vietnam. The documents, including one to support a 1985 supplemental protocol and 2005 agreement […]

U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, on Saturday announced closer cooperation, especially militarily, with Greece after meeting with the country’s Prime Minister during a trip to Athens. Pompeo and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said the NATO countries will also strengthen their ties in the energy and economic sectors. “We’re opening a new chapter in our […]

Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said on Saturday that his country will carry out military intervention in north-eastern Syria on Saturday and Sunday. “We will carry out this operation both from land and from the air,’’ Erdogan said, referring to the east of Euphrates River in Syria, which is mainly controlled by U.S.-backed Kurdish militia. […]

US President Donald Trump said Friday he will formally object to Congress’s impeachment enquiry even as he acknowledged that House Democrats “have the votes” to proceed. The White House was expected to send a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arguing that Congress cannot conduct an impeachment investigation without first having a vote to authorise […]

A takeover bid of German lighting manufacturer Osram by an Austrian company on Friday failed. AMS, a producer of sensors, said it failed in its goal to achieve the minimum acceptance threshold of 62.5 percent of Osram’s shares. Only the owners of 51.6 percent of the shares of Munich-based Osram took the offer of 41 […]