Dozens of freshly-elected French far-right lawmakers visited parliament July 10, as the left-wing alliance who beat them in the polls scrambled for a viable candidate…
British lawmakers squeezed into parliament July 9 with Labour ministers sitting on the government's side of the chamber for the first time in 14 years…
Russia came under fire at the UN Security Council on July 9 for conducting "systemic attacks" on Ukraine's medical facilities after a wave of deadly…
The Kremlin said July 10 that it could not intervene in the situation of imprisoned government critic Vladimir Kara-Murza, who was hospitalised last week without…
Uganda on July 10 dismissed claims in a report by UN experts that it was backing M23 rebels active in the restive east of the…
Torrential flooding battered Sudan's southeast July 9, bringing entire villages underwater and causing homes to collapse, witnesses told AFP, in the first devastating weather event…
Moody's has downgraded Kenya's debt rating further into junk territory and warned the outlook was negative after a wave of protests led the government to…
Spain's Supreme Court on July 9 closed a "terrorism" investigation into Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont, who fled abroad in 2017 to avoid prosecution over…
Iran's reformist president-elect Masoud Pezeshkian will take the oath of office in parliament on July 30, a member of the legislature's presiding board, Mojtaba Yousefi,…
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said July 9 he hoped for free and fair elections in troubled Venezuela later this month, with a…
Indian authorities have suspended six police and government officials after a stampede that killed 121 people last week, accusing them of "negligence" in handling the…
At least 18 people died and 19 were injured when a bus collided with a milk tanker in northern India's Utter Pradesh state early July…
Bangladesh's top court on July 10 temporarily suspended quotas for coveted government jobs after thousands of students staged nationwide protests against what they call a…
Known for pristine beaches and calm waters, the Maldives is the smallest nation in Asia, spanning just 300 sq km in landmass across 1,192 idyllic…
Fighting raged for an eighth day around a Myanmar regional military headquarters, where an ethnic armed group had briefly captured a battalion command, one of…
Singapore state investor Temasek, one of the world's top funds, said on July 9 it would prioritise investments in the United States after the "underperformance"…
Malaysian authorities have arrested six members of an international crime ring known as the "Ninja Turtle Gang" and seized about 200 smuggled tortoises and turtles,…
HSBC and Leader Energy of Malaysia have inked a financing deal worth 593 billion Vietnamese dong ($23.3 million) for a solar power plant in the…
The U.S. Navy's oldest operational ship is visiting Vietnam's Cam Ranh Bay, a strategic waterway in the South China Sea that has stirred the interest…
Taiwan's defence ministry said 37 Chinese aircraft were detected around the self-ruled island July 10 as they headed to exercises with an aircraft carrier in…
A Taiwanese sergeant has been indicted for allegedly photographing and leaking confidential defence information to China, prosecutors said July 9. Beijing claims self-ruled Taiwan as…
Parts of South Korea were battered by record rainfall typically seen just once every 200 years, the country's weather agency told AFP July 10, with…
The labour union for workers at Samsung Electronics in South Korea will continue to strike indefinitely, it said in a statement on its website on…
French police shot and killed an alleged gunman in New Caledonia on July 10, local prosecutors said, bringing the toll of almost two months of…
Palau has been upgraded to a 'high-income' country by the World Bank. 'High-income' countries are often referred to as 'first-world' countries. The World Bank report…
