The arrest and charging of Telegram founder Pavel Durov is a complex case which raises a lot of human rights concerns, the United Nations said…
France's President Emmanuel Macron was September 3 considering a former right-wing minister to lead a new government after almost two months of deadlock, sources with…
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on September 2 urged mainstream parties to avoid working with the far right, after record gains by the AfD in two…
Senegal's parliament has rejected a draft revision of the constitution put forward by the country's new leaders and seen as paving the way for the…
A Moscow court September 3 sentenced a prominent physicist to 15 years in a penal colony after finding him guilty of "treason" -- the latest…
Tunisia's electoral board said September 2 it approved three candidates for an October 6 presidential election, ignoring court rulings that had granted appeals by three…
Belgium on September 2 named foreign minister Hadja Lahbib as its candidate for the next European Commission, bolstering EU chief Ursula von der Leyen's push…
At least 129 people were killed during a weekend prison break attempt at the largest jail in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the interior minister…
Czech police said two children were injured in a knife attack by a pupil at a primary school in the western city of Domazlice on…
Russia has detained another senior military official on suspicion of bribery, authorities said September 2, the latest in a string of arrests linked to alleged…
India launched a probe September 3 after 12 applicants for coveted government jobs died during physical tests for posts as excise officers, with commentators saying…
Indian police killed at least nine Maoist rebels during a gunfight on September 3, officials said, with security forces still searching the forest for more…
India on September 3 deployed four ships and two aircraft to trace three missing coastguard members after their helicopter crashed into the Arabian Sea during…
Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada has ordered Afghan officials to enact a sweeping new morality law curtailing women's rights and enshrining an austere vision of…
Thailand's new Cabinet has been selected and should be submitted for royal endorsement within this week, Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra said on September 2. Senior…
Iran has slapped Pakistan with a final notice to finish its part of a cross-border gas pipeline or face international arbitration, and possibly billions of…
Storm Yagi killed at least 15 people in the Philippines and forced thousands to flee to safer ground, and is now strengthening as it makes…
Thailand has netted more than 1.3 million kilograms of highly destructive blackchin tilapia fish, the government said September 3, as it battles to stamp out…
Philippine authorities raided a suspected illegal online gaming and cyberscam complex in a central province and took into custody more than 160 people — mostly…
Japan's outgoing Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will head to Seoul on September 6 for a two-day visit to meet South Korea's leader after the pair…
Russian President Vladimir Putin was welcomed by honour guards and red carpets in the Mongolian capital on September 3 on his first visit to an…
A school bus ploughed into a crowd of people outside a middle school in eastern China on September 3, killing 11 parents and students, state…
Swaths of China logged the hottest August on record last month, the weather service said, as Japanese authorities announced that this summer had been the…
A South Korean shipyard started providing maintenance, repair, and overhaul services for a US Navy vessel on September 3, the first time Seoul has been…
New Zealand's spy service branded China a "complex intelligence concern" September 3 and warned the Pacific nation was vulnerable to foreign interference. In an annual…
