The trial for Michael Kovrig, the Canadian detained more than two years ago in China on espionage charges, started yesterday, with relations between Ottawa and Beijing in free-fall.

Nearly one-third of Nigerian children lack access to enough water, the UN children’s agency Unicef said yesterday, calling for urgent measures to address the problem.

Israeli authorities confiscated the VIP border pass of Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki upon his return to the West Bank from a meeting at the International Criminal Court, a Palestinian official said on Sunday.

India and Pakistan will hold the first meeting in three years of a commission that deals with water rights on the Indus River today, the two sides said yesterday, illustrating a broader resumption of diplomatic ties.

Top Biden administration officials had previously undisclosed ties to large corporations including tech giants Microsoft Corp, Alphabet’s Google and Facebook Inc, financial disclosures by the White House show.

Three tourists who vandalised China’s Great Wall -- one of the country’s most popular historic landmarks -- have been detained and fined, officials said yesterday.

Donald Trump plans to return to social media soon, using “his own platform” after being banned from Twitter and other outlets, a former advisor said Sunday.

The European Union yesterday imposed sanctions on four Chinese officials, including a top security director, for human rights abuses in Xinjiang, the first sanctions against Beijing since an arms embargo in 1989 following the Tiananmen Square crackdown.

Despite the clamor to speed up the US vaccination drive against Covid-19 and get the country back to normal, the first three months of the rollout suggest faster is not necessarily better.

Myanmar activists plan fresh protests including a call for vehicle convoys to drive through intersections honking horns with occupants raising three-finger anti-coup salutes despite reports of security forces killing more people at the weekend.

US President Joe Biden took aim at the “ugly poisons” of “systemic racism and white supremacy” that he said had long plagued the United States, and vowed to change the laws that enabled continued discrimination.

Russian jets hit a gas facility, a cement factory and several towns and cities in northwestern Syria near the Turkish border as Syrian army artillery killed seven civilians and injured 14 medics in an attack on a hospital in the area, witnesses and rebel sources said.

Pakistan’s 2017 census recorded about 10,000 transgender people, though trans rights groups say the number could now be well over 300,000 in the country of 220 million.

Two police officers were seriously injured and at least two police vehicles were set on fire in the city of Bristol in southwest England during violent scenes after a peaceful protest, police said.

Demonstrators in Myanmar maintained their dogged opposition to military rule despite a rising death toll, with two more people killed as the junta appeared equally determined to resist growing pressure to compromise.

Australian authorities are planning to evacuate thousands more people from flood-affected suburbs in Sydney’s west, which is set for its worst flooding in 60 years.

Confidence in the safety of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine has taken a big hit in Spain, Germany, France and Italy as reports of rare blood clots have been linked to it and many countries briefly stopped using it, poll data showed.

The largest asteroid to pass by Earth this year will swing closest yesterday, giving astronomers a rare chance for a good look at a space rock that

A European Union summit due to take place on March 25-26 in Brussels will now be held via video conference due to the increase in coronavirus

US defence secretary Lloyd Austin has arrived in Kabul on his first trip to Afghanistan as Pentagon chief amid swirling questions about how long