Colombia’s President Ivan Duque called Saturday for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to be prosecuted as a “war criminal” in a joint news conference with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

More than a thousand people gathered in central London to protest against lockdown measures aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus, before the event was broken up by police.

The death of liberal Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg could spell bad news for Democrats if a legal battle over the results of the November 3 presidential election reaches the high court, as it did in 2000.

The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday endorsed a protocol for testing African herbal medicines as potential treatments for the coronavirus and other epidemics.

At least 12 civilians were killed and more than 10 others injured on Saturday in twin airstrikes on a Taliban base in the northeastern Afghan province of Kunduz, a provincial official said.

Openly challenging the monarchy of Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn, thousands of protesters marched in Bangkok on Sunday to present demands that include a call for reforms to curb his powers.

President Donald Trump said Saturday he had approved a deal allowing Silicon Valley giant Oracle to become the data partner for TikTok to avert a shutdown of the massively popular Chinese-owned video app that Washington has called a security risk.

A fierce political battle shaped up over the future of the U.S. Supreme Court on Saturday, with President Donald Trump saying he would quickly name a successor to liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a move that would tip the court further to the right.

India’s parliament session that began this week is likely to be cut short after 30 lawmakers were found infected with the coronavirus, two

President Donald Trump on Friday complimented the Taliban for being tough and smart, and said the United States is dealing well with the Afghan militant group.

Shinzo Abe, who stepped down this week as Japan’s prime minister, yesterday visited a war shrine seen by neighbouring countries as a symbol

Prominent human rights lawyer Amal Clooney on Friday resigned her post as a UK envoy for media freedom, in protest at the government’s

US President Donald Trump said he expects enough Covid-19 vaccines “for every American” will be produced by next April, as a host of European countries imposed new local restrictions to reduce their spiralling case loads.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a diminutive yet towering women’s rights champion who became the United States Supreme Court’s second female justice over 25 years ago, died Friday at her home in Washington, DC. She was 87.

Scientists are providing a fuller understanding of the essential role that sleep plays in brain health, identifying an abrupt transition at about 2.4 years of age when its primary purpose shifts from brain building to maintenance and repair.

India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) yesterday said it has arrested nine al-Qaeda militants who were planning attacks in several locations including the capital New Delhi.

Breaking a longstanding taboo, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Israel governments on Tuesday signed accords in Washington, DC to normalise ties between the Gulf nations and Israel, a move political analysts say will do little to Middle East peace.

China yesterday launched a mechanism that would allow it to sanction foreign companies, upping the ante in a tech war with the United States a day after Washington moved to curb popular Chinese apps TikTok and WeChat.

The United States will unilaterally declare this weekend that UN sanctions against Iran are once again in force, a move that risks increasing Washington’s diplomatic isolation while also stoking international tensions.

US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Friday at the age of 87, told her granddaughter she didn’t want to be replaced until “a new president is installed,” US media reported.