ICC confirms arrest warrant for Philippine senator
The International Criminal Court confirmed Monday an arrest warrant against a sitting Philippine senator and former enforcer of ex-president Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war, as he...
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London Heathrow airport traffic dips due to Mideast war
London’s Heathrow Airport announced Monday that passenger numbers dropped in April as the Middle East war disrupted global air travel. The airport handled 6.7 million...
Iran Nobel winner Mohammadi campaigner paying high price
Iranian rights activist Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of decades of campaigning, but her struggle has seen her separated from her...
UN needs reform to boost African representation
The United Nations must be reformed to increase African representation, secretary-general Antonio Guterres said on Monday when he broke ground on an expansion of the...
Buried Iranian enriched uranium under close watch, says Trump
US President Donald Trump has said that the United States is closely monitoring Iranian enriched uranium reportedly buried under rubble, adding that the US Space...
First passengers fly home from virus-hit cruise ship
The first passengers evacuated from a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship docked near Spain’s Canary Islands have arrived in Madrid. Fourteen Spanish nationals were on the chartered...
Atef Najib faces at least 10 charges in landmark Syria trial
A cousin of toppled Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad has been charged with at least 10 crimes, including murder, torture and responsibility for massacres, in the...
Indonesia rescuers find hikers’ bodies after volcanic eruption
Indonesian rescuers retrieved on Sunday the remains of two Singaporean hikers killed in a volcanic eruption in a seismic no-go zone, capping a three-day search...
Israel deports two foreign activists seized from Gaza flotilla
Israel deported on Sunday two foreign activists seized from a Gaza-bound flotilla, in what a rights group representing them described as a “punitive attack” on...
Kuwait says came under drone attack at dawn
The Kuwaiti military reported a drone attack against the country on Sunday, weeks into a fragile ceasefire in the Middle East war. “At dawn today,...
Frontier Airlines plane hit, killed a person on runway at Denver airport
A Frontier Airlines plane struck and killed a person while attempting to take off from a runway at Denver International Airport late on Friday night,...
WHO chief arrives in Spain before hantavirus-hit ship evacuation
The World Health Organization chief said Saturday he had arrived in Spain and would join government officials to oversee the disembarkation of a hantavirus-hit cruise ship...