Asia-Pacific

Latest articles belonging to Asia-Pacific.

An Afghan diplomat has been shot dead in the Afghan consulate in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi.
Rescuers are battling to reach survivors of avalanches in Afghanistan's remote, mountainous north, as the death toll topped 100 and fears are growing for dozens...
Treasurer Scott Morrison has news for foreign investors who have illegally acquired property in Australia.
United Nations investigators say a total of 3498 civilians were killed in the Afghanistan conflict in 2016 and 7920 were wounded.
Waitangi Day commemorates treaty and Maori ownership of land - and the New Zealand national holiday has put the spotlight on Australia and the likelihood of a...
Police detained one person Monday in connection with a fire at a foot massage parlour in China that killed at least 18 people and injured another 18, media said.
The world's longest commercial flight landed in New Zealand Monday with the arrival of Qatar Airways's 14,535 kilometres (9,032 miles) Doha-Auckland service, the...
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Middle-East

Latest articles belonging to Middle-East.

54 dead in Afghan avalanches

54 people are dead and at least 50 others injured as a result of a series of avalanche's in Afghanistan.
Iraq are happy with the ruling of the US appeals court that overturned US President Donald Trump's ban on immigration.
Israeli Arabs and Jews marched arm-in-arm through central Tel Aviv on Saturday night, calling for the government to stop demolishing Arab homes built without...
The Syrian Democratic Forces says action in the Islamic State-held city of Raqqa is being undertaken with increasing support from the international coalition.
Iran is holding military rocket testing on Saturday, a day after the US imposed new sanctions on Tehran in response to a ballistic missile test last weekend.
Israel has established a national centre for cyber education, meant to prepare children for eventual careers in defence, the high-tech industry and academia.
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi does not believe safe zones inside Syria will work despite the confidence of US President Donald Trump.
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Europe

Latest articles belonging to Europe.

April 2015 and March 2016 there were 8,656 times when women or girls were assessed for female genital mutilation in the UK, statistics indicate.
As Europe works to stem the flow of migrants and asylum seekers across the Mediterranean, thousands continue to drown while rescuers scramble to save people from...
A French presidential candidate has used a 3D hologram of himself as he launched his campaign.
Romania's government scrapped a contentious corruption decree Sunday in a climbdown after the biggest mass demonstrations since the fall of communism, but...
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen vowed Sunday she would be a president who puts France first as she formally launched a campaign echoing many of the themes that...
Roughly 4,500 migrants have been saved since Wednesday.

Trump discusses NATO with Italy

Italy discussed bilateral relations with the US during a phone call with President Donald Trump.

Africa

Latest articles belonging to Africa.

As Europe works to stem the flow of migrants and asylum seekers across the Mediterranean, thousands continue to drown while rescuers scramble to save people from...
Roughly 4,500 migrants have been saved since Wednesday.
More than 1000 migrants have been intercepted by Libya's coast guard.
Congo's prominent democracy advocate Eitenne Tshisekedi has died.
Five people are dead after an attack on a UN team on the border of Nigeria and Cameroon.
Militants from the al-Shabab group have rammed a car bomb into a hotel in Mogadishu, killing at least 28.
Militants from the al Shabaab group have rammed a car bomb into a hotel in Mogadishu, killing at least 18.

North America

Latest articles belonging to North America.

Home-sharing giant Airbnb injected a surprise political message during the Super Bowl on Sunday with a television spot highlighting multiculturalism and the hashtag ...
Detectives investigating the murder of a New York jogger say DNA evidence has led them to the arrest of a suspect.

Trump continues attack on judge

President Donald Trump is continuing his attack on a judge who blocked a travel ban on citizens of seven mainly Muslim nations.
A US appeals court has rejected a government request to reinstate President Donald Trump's controversial immigration ban, prompting travelers from seven mainly...
Alec Baldwin, playing Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live, tells a Malcolm Turnbull character "Australia sucks. Your reef is failing. Prepare to go to war".
US President Donald Trump says he respects his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and brushed off a description of him as a 'killer'.
Just after White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer appeared to call Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull "Prime Minister Trumble" earlier this week, the...

South America

Latest articles belonging to South America.

Forest fires ravaging southern Chile have now killed 11 people, President Michelle Bachelet said Saturday, as firefighters waged an all-out battle to extinguish the...
Officials are working to stop an outbreak of yellow fever that has killed at least 40 people in Brazil from becoming an epidemic.
Vast woodland fires in the center and south of Chile have caused "the biggest forestry disaster in our history," President Michelle Bachelet said on Monday,...
Brazil's government is enlisting the help of the armed forces in resolving a serious crisis in the nation's prisons.

Study to unlock mysteries of sun

A group of scientists in Chile are pointing radio telescopes towards the sun in a bid to unlock its mysteries.
A shooting erupted during an electronic music festival at a Mexican beach resort early Monday, leaving five people dead, including one in a stampede as revelers...
Twenty-seven inmates have died in a riot in a Brazilian jail sparked by a war between rival drug factions.