5 new Islands discovered in the Arctic

A Russian naval research team has discovered five islands in the Franz Josef Land archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, state media reported on Tuesday. The islands vary in size from 900 to 54,500 square …

China’s Yuan Sinks To Weakest In 11 Years Amid Trade Tension

China’s currency slid on Monday to its weakest point in more than 11 years as concerns over the US trade war and the potential for global recession weighed on markets. The onshore yuan was around 7.1…

EPL: How Martial is delaying Alexis Sanchez’s exit from Man Utd

Manchester United are waiting to discover the extent of Anthony Martial’s muscle injury before they sanction Alexis Sanchez’s move to Inter Milan, according to ESPN. Martial is set for scans this wee…

Indonesia to relocate new capital

Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Monday announced the relocation of the new national capital to replace sinking and traffic-clogged Jakarta.         Widodo said the c…

G7 leaders agree to help Brazil fight Amazon fires

Leaders of the Group of Seven nations said Sunday they are preparing to help Brazil battle fires burning across the Amazon region and repair the damage as tens of thousands of soldiers got ready to j…

Hong Kong police fire protesters for first time

Hong Kong police fired water cannon on anti-government protesters in an unprecedented move on Sunday, after an initially peaceful march through a residential district in the western Kowloon peninsula…

Brexit: Johnson seeks legal advice

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has asked his attorney general whether parliament can be shut down for five weeks from 9 September in what appears to be an attempt to stop lawmakers forcing a fu…

N/Korea missiles tests: Trump, Abe at odds

U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, showed their differences over the seriousness of North Korea’s series of short-range missile launches on Sunday while maintaining …

Rape: Indonesian man to face castration

An Indonesian man named Muh Aris bin Syukur from the city of Mojokerto in East Java was sentenced with chemical castration for the rape of nine children in a landmark ruling for the country. &nb…

Homemade bomb kills Israeli, wounds two others in West Bank

A rare homemade bomb attack in the occupied West Bank killed one Israeli on Friday while seriously wounding her father and brother as they visited a spring near a Jewish settlement, officials said.&n…

Putin issues missile order against US

Russian President, Vladimir Putin on Friday ordered a like-for-like response to a recent U.S. missile test. He said the test showed that Washington aimed to deploy previously banned missiles around t…

Brazil President Says France’s Macron Has ‘Colonialist Mentality’ Over Amazon Fires

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro blasted his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron Thursday as having a “colonialist mentality” for rallying G-7 countries to address wildfires raging in the Amazon rai…

California to sue Trump over new migrant children detention policy

Gov. Gavin Newsom says California will join other states in filing a new lawsuit as early as next week to block the Trump administration’s efforts to indefinitely detain immigrant minors and families…

Sri Lanka ends emergency four months after Easter attacks

Sri Lanka has ended a four-month state of emergency declared after Easter suicide bombings by Islamist extremists that killed 258 people, officials said Friday.        P…

Trump’s U.S troop pullout mere threat – German Mayor

Grafenwoehr Mayor, Edgar Knobloch, on Thursday said he was confident that President Donald Trump would not follow through on his threat to pull troops out of Germany.      &n…

Brexit: Macron calls for ‘useful month’ of talks to find solution

French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday called for a “useful” month of talks with Britain to find a solution to its EU exit, adding that any plan should be within the framework of the existing w…

U.S. military drone shot down over Yemen – officials

A U.S. military MQ-9 drone was shot down in Yemen’s Dhamar governorate, southeast of the Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Wednesday.      &…

Merkel hints on Brexit economic pain before Johnson visit

German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Wednesday of the economic impact of a chaotic no-deal Brexit, hours before she was to receive British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on his first foreign visit.&n…

Migrants Ordered To Disembark From Charity Ship In Italy

An Italian prosecutor on Tuesday ordered the more than 80 remaining migrants on the Open Arms charity vessel to disembark in Lampedusa after it was stuck for days off the island.    &n…

UN Postpones Anti-Torture Conference In Cairo After Criticism

The United Nations has postponed a conference against torture due to be held in Cairo after fierce criticism of Egypt’s rights record, a UN spokesman said Tuesday.      &nbsp…