The Chinese coast guard detained a Taiwanese fishing vessel in waters off China’s southeast coast on Tuesday night, in the latest flare-up of tensions around a group of frontline islands controlled by Taipei. In a statement, Taiwan’s coast guard said the fishing boat, Tachinman 88, was intercepted by two Chinese coast…
Sierra Leone officially banned child marriage on Tuesday with President Julius Maada Bio signing into law a bill to…
A club of Eurasian countries spearheaded by China and Russia to advance their leaders’ vision of an alternative world order…
Voters in Britain are primed to end a 14-year era of Conservative rule, in a momentous general election that…
As French citizens get set to vote in runoff parliamentary elections on Sunday hundreds of contenders have bowed out…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected the idea of starting a ceasefire in Gaza while Hamas remains in…
More than a hundred people were killed in a crush at a religious gathering in India’s northern state of…
Allegations of sexual abuse against a child by a Syrian man in Kayseri, Turkey, have sparked overnight riots that…
A ballistic missile launched by North Korea on Monday might have had an “abnormal” flight trajectory and could have…