Investigators in Germany and Sweden on July 3 arrested eight suspects allied with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government over alleged participation in crimes against humanity…
Women and girls subjected to domestic violence in Iraqi Kurdistan face "daunting obstacles" when they seek state protection, Amnesty International said July 3, accusing authorities…
South Africa's new unity government under President Cyril Ramaphosa began being sworn in during a televised ceremony in Cape Town on July 3 following weeks…
Survivors of India's deadliest stampede in over a decade on July 3 recalled the horror of being crushed at a vastly overcrowded Hindu religious gathering…
Six people have been killed in floods precipitated by torrential rains across northeast India and neighbouring Bangladesh that inundated the homes of more than a…
Pakistan minority rights campaigners protested July 2 after a Christian man was sentenced to death for sharing an allegedly blasphemous TikTok post. The image included…
Indian security forces shot dead five Maoist insurgents July 2, police said, the latest clash in a decades-long conflict. Gun battles took place in the…
The Philippines and China agreed on July 2 to "de-escalate tensions" over the South China Sea, Manila said, following a violent clash in the disputed…
Clashes broke out near a regional military command in northern Myanmar on July 3, residents and local media said, in what appeared to be a…
A new law was passed in parliament on July 2 that will see fines quadruple for corporate service providers that do not comply with anti-money…
China’s Coast Guard detained a Taiwanese fishing boat along with its six crew members near an offshore outpost as tensions simmer under the island’s new…
Nearly a quarter of a million people were evacuated in eastern China as rainstorms lashed swathes of the country and caused the Yangtze and other…
Japan's top court will issue a ruling July 3 on a defunct eugenics law under which the government forcibly sterilised around 16,500 people, causing decades…
Trash-carrying balloons sent by North Korea across the border have disrupted more than 100 flights carrying 10,000 passengers, a South Korean lawmaker said July 3.…
A major Australian coal mine battled on Wednesday to extinguish an underground gas fire that has been burning for five days following a "combustion event".…
Nearly 5000 people are still to vacate an illegal settlement in Papua New Guinea's capital Port Moresby before police forcibly remove them. There are an…
In its efforts to bring more airline options to Guam to "open up opportunities", government officials from the US territory and Nauru are in discussions…
Australia’s A$3.9 trillion ($2.6 trillion) pension sector should do more to prepare for the coming wave of retirees by enhancing efforts to track and improve…
The US Supreme Court ruled July 1 that Donald Trump enjoys some immunity from prosecution as a former president, a ruling that will likely delay…
Kenyan police fired tear gas to scatter small crowds in the capital Nairobi on July 2, AFP reporters saw, after youth activists called for fresh…
Libya reopened its Ras Jedir border crossing with Tunisia, the key transit point between the countries, at a ceremony July 1, three months after it…
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Kazakhstan on July 2 for a state visit, during which he will attend a meeting of Shanghai alliance nations…
Moscow on July 1 claimed to have captured two more villages in eastern Ukraine, but acknowledged that tens of thousands of people in Russia's border…
Dutch King Willem-Alexander swore in former spy chief Dick Schoof as new prime minister July 2, at the head of a right-wing coalition cabinet with…
Mauritania's incumbent President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani has comfortably won re-election at the helm of the vast desert nation, seen as a rock of…
