International

North Korea has launched two unidentified projectiles, South Korea’s military says, in its first apparent weapons test of the year. The projectiles were launched from the North’s east coast towards the Sea of Japan, also […]

Satellite images have shown a dramatic decline in pollution levels over China, which is “at least partly” due to an economic slowdown prompted by the coronavirus, US space agency Nasa says. Nasa maps show falling […]

A five-year-old law banning professionally assisted suicide has been rejected as unconstitutional by Germany’s top court. The court backed complaints by a group of terminally ill patients and doctors who challenged the law that made […]

At an emergency meeting in Beijing held last Friday, Chinese leader Xi Jinping spoke about the need to contain the coronavirus and set up a system to prevent similar epidemics in the future. A national […]

President Xi Jinping on Sunday published a timeline of his actions to combat the coronavirus racing through China as the Communist Party worked to tamp down criticism of the government’s handling of the crisis. The […]

Australian political blogger Keira Savage resurfaced the short clip on Thursday. It showed Sky News Australia host Andrew Bolt, a conservative political commentator, grilling Jacob Andrewartha, a climate activist and member of the Socialist Alliance […]

The East African region could be on the verge of a famine if huge swarms of locusts devouring crops and pasture are not brought under control, a top UN official has told the BBC. It […]

Russian state media have welcomed enthusiastically the recent U.S. Senate acquittal of President Donald J. Trump. Having predicted this outcome for his impeachment trial, Russian experts and state-media pundits are anticipating beneficial side effects for […]

WASHINGTON – The United States military has begun building a new base in northeast Syria, according to local reports. The new U.S. military base reportedly is located in the city of Hasakah, one of the […]

The mother of two from the United Kingdom who was arrested in 2018 for allegedly referring to a transgender woman as a man in social media interactions is now on trial for the misdeed — […]