Myanmar now world’s top opium producer
YANGOON – Myanmar is now the world’s largest producer of opium, overtaking Afghanistan, a United Nations (UN) report says.
Opium, the key ingredient for the...
Israel to continue Gaza war with or without int’l support
TEL AVIV – Israel’s foreign minister has said it will continue the war in Gaza “with or without international support”.
A ceasefire at this stage...
Japanese ministers quit over corruption
TOKYO – Four cabinet ministers in Japan quit on Thursday over a fundraising scandal involving the ruling party's most powerful faction.
More than 500 million...
Israel ‘encircles’ Hamas strongholds
GAZA STRIP – Israel’s defense minister Yoav Gallant says their military has encircled the last Hamas strongholds in Jabaliya and Shejaiya in northern Gaza...
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Kenya nationwide blackout sparks sabotage suspicions
NAIROBI – A power blackout that plunged Kenya into darkness on Sunday was a possible act of sabotage, a minister says.
It hit at about...
Children of jailed Iranian Nobel winner accept prize
OSLO – The teenage twins of jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi have accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf.
Mohammadi – who is serving...
China’s AIDS whistleblower dies in exile
NEW YORK – Gao Yaojie, a renowned dissident doctor who exposed the AIDS epidemic in rural China, has died aged 95.
Dr. Gao died of...
Half of Gaza population starving
GAZA STRIP – A senior United Nations (UN) aid official has warned that half of Gaza’s population is starving, as fighting there continues.
Carl Skau,...
Peru’s ex-president freed after 15 years in prison
LIMA – Peru’s former president, Alberto Fujimori, has been released from prison in the country’s capital having spent more than 15 years incarcerated.
Hundreds of...
EU wary of Christmas terror attacks
BRUSSELS – There is a "huge risk of terrorist attacks in the European Union" over the coming holiday season, a senior European Union (EU)...