ChelseaManning, the former US Army private imprisoned for leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, has filed an appeal for her 35-year prison sentence three years after her conviction. Manning, 28,...
Prime MinisterMatteo Renzi has urged reform of Italy&aposs; parliamentary system ahead of a referendum in October. One recent survey already indicates rejection, while local polls in June could also...
GUANGZHOU, May 21 (Xinhua) -- Eight people died and four others were reported missing as rainstorms wreaked havoc in south China'sGuangdong Province on Friday. The casualties were all reported in...
Prosecutors in Peru have launched a money laundering probe against presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori and her husband. The investigation opened without fanfare in March,...
Former Taiwanese chief executive Ma Ying-jeou is expected to be challenged with dozens of lawsuits which were reopened against the politician following the termination of his presidential immunity....
--> The firm has developed China's first space parachute suit. A Chinese firm, which has developed the country's first space parachute suit, has hit on a novel business idea to send people into...
--> Ban Ki-Moon believes that Buddhist teachings of compassion and non-violence is what the international community requires today. In current times of hateful rhetoric aimed at dividing communities...
Tunisia's conservative Ennahda party says it has separated itself from any association with political Islam after being considered "moderate" Islamists for 30 years. Ennahda's leader Rached Ghannouchi...
Donald Trump has slammed Hillary Clinton as "heartless" for backing restrictions on gun ownership that he said would leave Americans in high-crime areas unable to protect themselves. Trump's remarks...
SENDAI: Britain's possible exit from the European Union took centre stage at a G7 meeting in Japan on Saturday, as UK finance minister George Osborne warned a 'Brexit' could doom trade deals with EU...
By Boureima HamaConditions in the Assaga refugee camp in the southeast of Niger have deteriorated in recent months as food aid has struggled to reach its occupants who live with just basic medical...
The most worrying environmental threats facing the world today range from the rise in diseases transmitted from animals to humans to the increasing accumulation of toxic chemicals in food crops as a...
A city in India's Rajasthan state has broken the country's temperature records after registering 51C, the highest since records began, the weather office says. The new record in Phalodi in the desert...
Mexico will analyze skeletal remains from an undetermined number of individuals that were found not far from where 43 Mexican students went missing nearly two years ago, officials said Thursday....
This article first appeared on the Kennan Institute site. Living in Russia and being involved in politics (or just writing about it or worrying about it) creates an odd sense of time. Try Newsweek:...
New York: Oklahoma has passed a law that would effectively ban abortions by subjecting doctors who perform them to felony charges and revoking their medical licences, the first legislation of...
--> Clinton used the example of the apparent downing of EgyptAir flight MS804 to say that Donald Trump would lack the skills to bring together US allies to respond to global threats. Democratic...