Egypt frees journo after four years
CAIRO – A journalist from the Al Jazeera network has been freed in Egypt, four years after he was arrested, the Qatari media organisation...
100,000 Sudanese flee fighting – UN
KHARTOUM – More than 100,000 people have fled Sudan since heavy fighting broke out between rival forces on April 15, the United Nations (UN)...
Rockets fired after Palestinian hunger striker dies in Israeli jail
WEST BANK – Militants in Gaza have fired more than 20 rockets into Israel after the death of a Palestinian prisoner who had been...
China frees jailed COVID whistleblower
BEIJING – Fang Bin, who documented the initial COVID-19 outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan, has been freed from jail after three years,...
Australia set to ban recreational vaping
CANBERRA – Recreational vaping will be banned in Australia, as part of a major crackdown amid what experts say is an “epidemic”.
Minimum quality standards...
Suspected Islamic State chief killed in Syria
ISTANBUL – Turkish forces have killed the suspected leader of the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced.
Abu...
Hollywood screenwriters go on strike over pay
LOS ANGELES – Thousands of Hollywood TV and movie screenwriters will strike, after talks with major studios over wages went unresolved.
A Writers Guild of...
India same-sex marriage case tests Supreme Court judges
NEW DELHI - As the Indian Supreme Court continues to hear petitions seeking to legalize same-sex marriage, it's becoming evident just how complex the...
NoKor warns of nuke arms race
PYONGYANG – North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s powerful sister has warned that a recent US-South Korean deal will lead to a “more serious danger”.
Kim...
‘Sudan crisis risks becoming a nightmare for the world’
KHARTOUM – The former prime minister of Sudan has warned that the conflict in his country could become worse than those in Syria and...