-- 2018-06-22 18:55:12
Cannabis plants have been found growing in the grounds of a Japanese parliamentary building in Tokyo. The country has a strict no-tolerance policy towards drugs and possession of even a small amount...
-- 2018-06-22 17:33:41
Women in Saudi Arabia will start driving cars for the first time ever from Sunday as a decades-old ban ends on the day. The interior ministry of the conservative Muslim kingdom is taking preparations...
-- 2018-06-22 17:02:27
China will build a railway connecting the western region of Tibet with Nepal, the China Daily reported on Friday. The move is one of several bilateral deals signed during Nepali Prime Minister Khadg...
-- 2018-06-22 16:49:41
Charles Krauthammer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and pundit who helped shape and occasionally dissented from the conservative movement as he evolved from “Great Society” Democrat...
-- 2018-06-22 16:47:35
The Pentagon has been asked to supply up to 20,000 beds at old military bases for migrant children held after illegally entering the US, officials have said. Beds will be for migrant children who c...
-- 2018-06-22 16:45:45
Italy says it will seize two migrant rescue ships in the Mediterranean, citing doubts over their legal status. Italian authorities said the Lifeline and Seefuchs, operated by the German migrant rescu...
-- 2018-06-22 16:19:58
Congolese opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba, whose war crimes convictions were quashed last month, is expected to return to Congo next month for a party congress to select a candidate for December&r...
-- 2018-06-22 15:38:53
The Philippines is planning to take President Rodrigo Duterte’s ferocious drugs war to schools with the inspection of bags and lockers, as well as random testing for teachers, to curb demand for...
-- 2018-06-22 15:36:12
Taliban militants killed at least 16 Afghan police and two civilians in western Badghis province after their three-day ceasefire for the Eid-ul-Fitr holiday ended at the weekend, officials said on Fri...
-- 2018-06-22 15:09:55
Armed with interactive online courses, generous funding and new dedicated research institutes, China’s universities are on the frontlines of an effort to promote the thinking of President Xi Jin...
-- 2018-06-22 14:04:46
An Indonesian court on Friday sentenced to death a cleric linked to Islamic State, for masterminding from his jail cell a string of deadly militant attacks across the world’s largest Muslim-majo...
-- 2018-06-21 20:53:57
US President Donald Trump has again made it to the cover of TIME magazine for reasons he might not necessarily call "terrific". Mr Trump's policy of separating immigrant children from their parents on...
-- 2018-06-21 18:51:17
Japan has halted evacuation drills simulating a North Korean missile attack in the wake of historic talks between Washington and Pyongyang, local media reported Thursday. Government officials d...
-- 2018-06-21 18:27:48
A female reporter groped live on air at the World Cup has spoken out about harassment by sports fans. Colombian correspondent Julieth Gonzalez Theran was working for DW Espanol in Moscow when a man g...
-- 2018-06-21 15:58:33
The Taliban killed eight police in two separate attacks in Afghanistan on Thursday, officials said. Arif Noori, a spokesman for the governor of the southern Ghazni province, says six police were kill...
-- 2018-06-21 15:51:06
President Donald Trump said North Korea had returned the remains of 200 US troops missing from the Korean War, although there was no official confirmation of the move from military authorities. &ldqu...
-- 2018-06-21 14:40:13
The European Court of Human Rights rejected an appeal by Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik who says his prison condition amount to inhuman or degrading treatment, the court said on Thursday...
-- 2018-06-21 13:47:09
Britain will outline its plans on Thursday for new immigration rules for European Union citizens living in the United Kingdom after Brexit as it calls on the bloc to give more details about its own pr...
-- 2018-06-21 11:57:43
China will maintain normal relations with Iran, the Commerce Ministry in Beijing said on Thursday. Ministry spokesman Gao Feng made the comment when asked at a regular news briefing if Chinese firms...
-- 2018-06-21 11:53:20
Algeria has turned off its internet nationwide during high school exams in a bid to tackle cheating. Internet service, both mobile and fixed line, will go off for an hour after the start of each high...
Agencies 2018-06-21 10:24:30
US President Donald Trump has backed down and abandoned his policy of separating immigrant children from their parents on the US-Mexico border, after images of youngsters in cages sparked outrage at h...
-- 2018-06-20 19:59:52
Pope Francis has criticised the US President Donald Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant families at the Mexican border. "Populism is not the answer to the world’s immigrat...
-- 2018-06-20 16:40:22
Australia has announced that it will hold a national inquiry into workplace sexual harassment. The investigation is in part a response to the global #MeToo movement against sexual misconduct, Sex Dis...
-- 2018-06-20 16:08:52
Russia says that the US exit from the United Nations’ Human Rights Council reflects Washington’s unilateralist approach to global affairs. The US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, announ...
-- 2018-06-20 15:08:44
South Sudan’s rebel leader Riek Machar arrived in Ethiopia on Wednesday for a meeting with South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir, as part of talks to try to negotiate an end to a five-year-ol...
-- 2018-06-20 14:06:45
Taliban militants killed 30 Afghan soldiers and captured a military base in the western province of Badghis on Wednesday, the provincial governor said, their first major attack since a ceasefire for t...
-- 2018-06-20 12:49:29
Canada’s parliament has passed a law legalising the recreational use of marijuana nationwide. The Cannabis Act passed its final hurdle on Tuesday in a 52-29 vote in the Senate. The bill control...
BBC 2018-06-20 10:40:57
The US has pulled out of the United Nations Human Rights Council, calling it a "cesspool of political bias". The "hypocritical and self-serving" body "makes a mockery of human rights", said US envoy...
-- 2018-06-19 20:25:24
Archaeologists have discovered a city dating back to the Ming Dynasty (1384-1644) in China's Jiangxi province. Covering an area of around 550,000 square metres, the city site in Tianbao village is sh...
-- 2018-06-19 18:56:23
A fresh attempt at solving a deadly crisis in Nicaragua through talks has stalled after opposition representatives and Catholic Church mediators walked out. At least 180 people have been killed since...
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