Bolivian ex-leader’s looming arrest warrant triggers protests
LA PAZ – Supporters of former Bolivian president Evo Morales have clashed with police after a prosecutor said she would order his arrest.
Morales, who...
Five beheaded bodies found in Mexico
MEXICO City – The decapitated bodies of five men have been found on a road in central Mexico, in an area controlled by the...
US spacecraft blasts off to hunt alien life on a distant moon
FLORIDA – A spacecraft that will hunt for signs of alien life on one of Jupiter’s icy moons has blasted off from Cape Canaveral,...
China ‘punishes’ Taiwan president’s remarks with drills
TAIPEI – China on Monday launched new military drills off the coast of Taiwan in what it described as “punishment” for a speech given...
King says a republic is up to Australian people
CANBERRA – King Charles has confirmed that it is up to the Australian people to decide whether the country remains a constitutional monarchy or...
Fifth peacekeeper wounded in southern Lebanon, UN says
BEIRUT – A United Nations (UN) peacekeeper has been wounded in southern Lebanon after being hit by gunfire, the UN Interim Force in Lebanon...
SoKor’s Han Kang wins Nobel Literature Prize
SEOUL – South Korean author Han Kang has won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The 53-year-old fiction writer is a former winner of the Man...
Japan atomic bomb survivors win Nobel Peace Prize
TOKYO – Known as hibakusha, the survivors of the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been recognised by the Norwegian Nobel Committee for...
UN accuses Israel of war crimes over attacks on Gaza hospitals
GAZA STRIP – A United Nations commission of inquiry has accused Israel of carrying out a “concerted policy to destroy Gaza's healthcare system" during...
Taiwan’s president vows to resist China ‘annexation’
TAIPEI – President William Lai has pledged to uphold Taiwan’s self-governing status in his most high-profile public address since taking office earlier this year.
In...