DUBAI: Thousands of tonnes of food aid near Yemen’s flashpoint port city of Hodeida is infested with insects and must be fumigated to feed millions of people, the UN said Wednesday....
ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani student was arrested Wednesday after stabbing his professor to death for organising a mixed-gender reception at a government college, police said.
BERLIN: The German FA (DFB) will launch new measures to improve the stadium experience of transgender football fans at Wednesday’s international friendly against Serbia in Wolfsburg....
DHAKA: A FIFA official detained for allegedly defaming the Bangladeshi prime minister has been freed, her lawyer said Wednesday, in a case closely watched by football’s governing...
LONDON: Britain’s historic National Portrait Gallery has cancelled a £1 million (US$1.3 million, €1.1 million) donation from the Sackler family, which is accused of contributing...
HELSINKI: Finland ranked as the world’s happiest country for the second year running while war-torn South Sudan sank to the least contented in a United Nations report released...
LONDON: Prime Minister Theresa May asked EU leaders Wednesday for a three-month delay to Brexit amid continued political deadlock in London, but Brussels warned the postponement...
ALMATY, KAZAKHSTAN: Kazakhstan’s new interim president was sworn in Wednesday following the shock resignation of the country’s long-time ruler and in his first official act renamed...
HANOI: A Vietnamese activist was sentenced on Wednesday to two years in prison for “abusing democratic freedoms” in the conservative communist state that has seen an uptick in...
BRUSSELS: The EU’s powerful anti-trust regulator slapped tech giant Google with a new fine on Wednesday over unfair competition, in Europe’s latest salvo against Silicon Valley....
HANOI: Vietnamese citizens were outraged after a man was fined US$8 for forcibly kissing a woman in an elevator, a rare public outburst in a country where sexual assault is scarcely...
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