Italy was plunged into political crisis on Wednesday after former premier Matteo Renzi withdrew his party from the ruling coalition, risking the collapse of the

Already grounded by the coronavirus pandemic, airlines operating in the UK are facing post-Brexit obstacles to flying across the European Union, and their share

A Paris court was to hear a complaint brought by NGOs backed by 2 million citizens on Thursday accusing the French state of failing to act to halt climate chang

Supporters of incumbent Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni celebrate in the streets of Kampala on Saturday. Photo: AFPUganda's Yoweri Museveni has won a sixth te

Egypt announced Saturday the discovery of a new trove of treasures at the Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo, including an ancient funerary temple.

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The death toll from a powerful earthquake on Indonesia's Sulawesi island has jumped to 60, authorities said Sunday, with thousands left homeless as rescuers rac

Suicide rates in Japan have jumped in the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly among women and children, even though they fell in the first wave w

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India kicked off on Saturday what the Indian authorities has called the "the world's largest vaccination drive" to bring immunity against the novel

People visit shops to purchase food and supplies to celebrate the New Year in Tokyo’s shopping district Ueno on Tuesday. Photo: AFP
Japan is preparing legisla

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The US strategic framework for the Indo-Pacific, a secret document recently declassified by the US government, exposes the Trump administration’s p

Biased language in some job adverts in Britain deters as many as one in two women from applying, a study said on Wednesday, amid a push to attract more women to

Italian anti-mafia prosecutor Nicola Gratteri (center) is surrounded by media as he arrives on Wednesday for the opening of the "Rinascita-Scott" maxi-trial in

Pictured is the Chinese Haixun01 maritime patrol vessel, which has a displacement of 5,418 tons. Photo: IC
China will commission its first maritime patrol ship

The elderly leader of a secretive religious sect at the center of South Korea's early ­novel ­coronavirus outbreak was not guilty of hindering the gover

Indonesian divers believe they are close to finding the cockpit voice recorder of a Sriwijaya Air jet that plunged into the sea shortly after takeoff with 62 pe

People ride bicycles during the World Car Free Day in Manila, the Philippines, Sept. 22, 2020. (Xinhua/Rouelle Umali)
The Department of Health (DOH) of the Phil

Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca receives a dose of China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine in Ankara, Turkey, Jan. 13, 2021. (Xinhua)
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Estonian Prime Minister Juri Ratas said on Wednesday he was stepping down after his Centre Party came under investigation for corruption linked to a ­proper

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CDU party will elect a new leader on Saturday, in a key vote kicking off the race for Germany's top job as a dead

One of Barcelona's largest parks, named after Spanish painter Joan Miro, is just a stone's throw away from the busy crossroads between Consell de Cent and Rocaf

An Irish inquiry into alarming death rates among newborns at church-run homes for unwed mothers will hand down its final report on Tuesday, laying bare one of t

A child watches the educational programmes for primary school pupils on television in Nicosia, Cyprus, on January 7. Photo Xinhua
Save the Children on Tuesday

Rescuers lay out body bags containing human remains recovered from the crash site of Sriwijaya Air flight SJ 182 at the port in Jakarta, Indonesia on Sunday, f

Indonesia's President Joko Widodo received the first dose of Sinovac Biotech's coronavirus vaccine named CoronaVac on Wed, becoming the first person in the coun

Photo taken on Nov. 10, 2020 shows the illuminated Olympic rings and the new National Stadium, the main venue for Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, in Tokyo, Jap