AFP :Indonesian capital Jakarta has been the world’s most polluted city on four days this week, according to air quality monitor IQAir, as authorities fail...
AFP :Britain will host an international energy security summit next year, the government announced on Thursday, inviting big oil-producing nations and companies but focusing also...
AFP :Pope Francis on Thursday expressed his sorrow at news of the latest deadly migrant shipwreck in the Mediterranean, urging people not to become “indifferent”...
Al Jazeera :A suspected al-Qaeda attack in southern Yemen has killed a military commander and three soldiers from a secessionist group, security officials and a...
Reuters :China again asked the Philippines to tow away a grounded warship – a World War Two-era vessel now used as a military outpost –...
Reuters :Iraq’s official media regulator on Tuesday (8 August) ordered all media and social media companies operating in the Arab state not to use the...
Reuters :A Pakistani high court on Wednesday turned down an appeal by jailed former prime minister Imran Khan that his conviction on corruption charges be...
Reuters :Nine bodies were found in the smouldering ruins of a holiday home housing disabled people that caught fire in the early hours of Wednesday...
BBC Online :Five people have died in violent protests relating to a taxi strike in Cape Town, South Africa, officials say. The victims include a...
Reuters :Landslides caused by heavy rain have killed at least one person, and blocked a major highway in Nepal this week, officials said on Tuesday,...
Reuters :Rescue workers combed through the rubble of damaged buildings in the city of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, the day after Russian strikes...
