US VICE-PRESIDENT Mike Pence attempted to school Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi over her country’s persecution of Rohingya Muslims at the Associat

ISRAEL’S destruction of the al-Aqsa TV station in Gaza was condemned today by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), which declared sol

THE death toll from a wave of forest fires in California has hit 42 after 13 more bodies were found, officials said today.

BEIJING rowed back today on its decision to allow trading in tiger and rhinoceros parts after fears were raised that it provided legal cover to poa

SOUTH-EAST Asian (Asean) leaders’ annual gathering opened in Singapore today, with host Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong warning that international r

ISRAELI air raids killed at least two Palestinians in the Gaza Strip today a day after the Israeli Defence Force killed seven Hamas fighters and it

ROMANIAN President Klaus Iohannis demanded the government stand down today and said the country was not ready to take up the EU rotating presidency

OUTGOING German secret service chief Hans-Georg Maassen will be replaced by his deputy, the Interior Ministry said today.

ITALY hosted talks between rival Libyan factions in the Sicilian capital Palermo today, but hopes of an end to seven years of warfare were reduced