BEIJING – Dozens of Chinese lawyers including some of the country’s more prominent “rights defenders” have been detained or questioned over the past few days in...
CHINA – More than 1 million people were evacuated in eastern China as Typhoon Chan-Hom made landfall Saturday afternoon. The storm’s powerful winds knocked out...
MANILA – Daniel Cabrera a Nine-year-old homeless Filipino boy touched hearts around the world after he was photographed doing his homework in the dim light...
ATHENS – Germany wants Greece pushed out of the euro currency to frighten France into accepting Berlin’s “model of a disciplinarian eurozone,” former Greek finance minister...
YANGON – Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi met senior party members in Naypyidaw Saturday to decide if the party will contest polls set for...
ROME – A former papal ambassador and Archbishop, Jozef Wesolowski, 66, accused of sexually abusing minors has been hospitalized in an intensive care unit — pushing back...
TUNISIA – The parents of Seifeddine Rezgui who killed 38 people in the Tunisian resort city of Sousse on June 26 have defended their 23-year-old...
JAKARTA – Philippine Boxing legend Manny Pacquiao prayed with Mary Jane Veloso a Philippine woman on death row in Indonesia and promised to appeal for...
ANKARA – Thai spokesman Werachon Sukhondhapatipak told reporters the Government of Thailand has closed its embassy and Consulate in Turkey following protests over it’s deportation of...
ISTANBUL – Turkish protesters have attacked the Thai consulate in Istanbul following the deportation from Thailand of about 100 Uighurs to China. Thai officials said that...