World

Latest world news

French PM says Nice Truck driver was radicalised quickly

Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel.

Police arrested a man and a woman in the French city of Nice on Sunday morning in connection with the truck attack that killed at least 84 people celebrating Bastille Day, a judiciary source said.

'The whole night felt like doomsday'

Soldiers involved in the coup surrender on  the Bosphorus bridge.

As dawn broke on Saturday, the citizens of Turkey emerged sleep-deprived and angst-ridden after a night of violence that felt more like life in war-stricken neighbors like Syria or Iraq.

Earthquake hits Tokyo and eastern Japan

Earthquake

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 struck eastern Japan on Sunday and shook buildings in Tokyo, officials and witnesses said, but there was no danger of a tsunami and no immediate report of injuries or major damage.

Brazil beefs up Olympic security after Nice attack

Preparations for the Rio Olympics have been trouble.

Brazil is revising its security for next month's Summer Olympic Games in the wake of the attack in Nice, France, that killed 84 people, officials said as they carried out the latest in a series of counterterrorism exercises.

A bridge falls short, like other Russia-China ties

The Kimkano-Sutarsky Mine, which holds vast ore reserves and pushed for a bridge over the Amur River, in the Jewish ...

Trumpeted for the past decade as an emblem of Russia's destiny as an Asian as well as a European power, the huge steel bridge thrusts out from the Chinese side of the Amur River, stretching more than a mile across the turbid waters that divide the world's most populous nation from its biggest.

Thai sex industry under fire from tourism minister, police

A motorcyclist rides past a group of young women hanging out near the Lumpini park in Bangkok.

Thailand's infamous sex industry is under fire, with the tourism minister pushing to rid the country of its ubiquitous brothels and a spate of police raids in recent weeks on some of the largest establishments providing sex services in Bangkok.

Nice attack bolsters anti-immigrant movements in Europe

Marine Le Pen, leader of the French Front National, FN.

The devastating attack in Nice, carried out by a Tunisian man living in France, came at a moment of political ferment in Europe and seems likely to give even more fuel to anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim movements that are challenging established parties across the region.