Police caught a suspect in a knife attack that killed six people and injured 14 on Saturday in the eastern Chinese city of Anqing, local authorities

The United States will stand with its European allies against Russia, President Joe Biden has promised ahead of the first face-to-face meeting with

Three US senators arrived in Taiwan yesterday on a US Air Force freighter and will meet President Tsai Ing-wen to discuss security and other

At least 11 civilians, including children, were killed when their vehicle set off a landmine in northern Afghanistan, local government officials said

Attackers from neighbouring Niger and Zamfara states killed 88 people in Nigeria’s Kebbi state on Thursday, spurring its governor to pledge a

The death toll from the worst militant attack in Burkina Faso in recent years has risen to 132, the government said yesterday, after armed assailants laid siege overnight to a village in the jihadist-plagued northeast.

Thailand is concerned at the violence in many parts of Myanmar and wants to see the implementation of steps agreed by Southeast Asian leaders with the military junta to help end the turmoil since the Feb. 1 coup, the foreign ministry said yesterday.

The Department of Justice said on Saturday that it would no longer seek source information from reporters in leak investigations after recent revelations that former President Donald Trump’s administration had secretly obtained phone and email records from a number of journalists.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called for leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) rich nations to make a commitment to vaccinate the entire world against Covid-19 by the end of 2022 when they meet in Britain next week.

Former US president Donald Trump returned to the spotlight Saturday for his first speech in months, framing next year’s midterm elections as a battle for the “survival of America” -- but keeping followers guessing on his own plans for 2024.

The head of Israel’s domestic security service issued a rare warning of possible violence during one of the most politically charged periods in decades, with the country on the verge of unseating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, its longest serving leader.

Nigeria’s government said on Friday it was suspending Twitter’s operations indefinitely, two days after the social media giant deleted a tweet from

The administration of President Joe Biden on Friday announced it would restore protections under the Endangered Species Act, a law credited with

A US judge overturned California’s three-decade-old ban on assault weapons Friday in a move swiftly condemned by the state’s

Before he was killed, Khet Thi’s poems railed eloquently against Myanmar’s sudden coup, joining a deluge of protest verse celebrating democracy demonstrators and defying the military’s brutal war on words. As soldiers unleashed a violent crackdown on resistance to the army takeover, he implored the public to stand firm against what he saw as an existential threat to the country’s future. “We have to fight to win this battle,” he wrote. “If we lose: North Korea. If we win: South Korea.” Last month, scores of police and soldiers surrounded the home he shared with his wife and family in the central city of Shwebo. They accused the poet -- who baked cakes and made ice cream to support his family -- of planning a series of bomb blasts, and demanded he give himself up. The next day his wife Chaw Su was summoned to a hospital in Monywa around 80 kilometres away. “I thought I would able to (bring) him some clothes,” she told AFP. But there was no need, according to a police officer, who told Chaw Su her husband was dead. “I got only the dead body back,” she told AFP. Myanmar has been in uproar since the February coup ended a 10-year experiment with democracy that had loosened the fetters of censorship and allowed for greater self-expression. As some protesters picked up hunting rifles and slingshots, poets like Khet Thi joined a fight against the coup staged by a population unwilling to surrender hard-won democratic freedoms. Along with violence in the streets, the junta has tried to stifle dissent with internet blackouts and by rounding up celebrities and civil servants who have called for rebellion. A video uploaded to Facebook soon in the weeks after the putsch showed a collage of defiant protesters reciting poems against the military. “With what conscience can you go to work while everyone goes out and protests?” asked one man, referring to a mass strike campaign launched to pressure the junta. Poetry played a prominent role in Burma’s struggle for independence against colonial power Britain and the decades of military rule that followed, when scores of writers were locked up as political prisoners. UK-based poet Ko Ko Thett believes the medium has struck a chord with ordinary people “overwhelmed with rage, disbelief and grief” at the junta’s takeover. He put his own writing on the back burner in order to concentrate on translating works by fellow poets writing from post-coup Myanmar -- some of whom, like Khet Thi, have since been killed. Many have mobilised online in their battle against the junta, including an underground collective of 30 bards from across the country spreading their verse on Facebook. “There is so much crime against humanity (in Myanmar). Poets in such situations live with tears in every single breath,” one poet, who asked to remain anonymous for security concerns, told AFP. “Our poems are hordes of screaming children.”

Around 100 civilians were killed overnight in the deadliest attack in Burkina Faso since jihadist violence erupted in the country in 2015, security and local sources said Saturday.

A giant African pouched rat called Magawa who spent years sniffing out landmines in the Cambodian countryside has stopped working and will enjoy a well-earned retirement eating bananas and peanuts, his employers told AFP.

Facebook on Friday banned former US president Donald Trump for two years, saying he deserved the maximum punishment for violating platform rules over a deadly attack by his supporters on the US Capitol.

At least 20 people were killed by Myanmar’s security forces in the Ayeyarwady river delta region yesterday after villagers armed with catapults and crossbows fought back against troops searching for weapons, local media and residents said.

The first cruise ship to leave Venice since coronavirus restrictions were eased set sail on Saturday, but some local residents protested over the return to normal, unhappy about the passage of giant liners through the historic lagoon city.