HONG KONG: A former employee of Britain’s consulate in Hong Kong said Wednesday that Chinese secret police tortured and interrogated him about London’s role in protests in the...
DUBAI: Iranian President Rouhani on Wednesday claimed victory over unrest he blamed on Iran’s foreign enemies, according to state media, after protests over an increase in gasoline...
HONG KONG: Dozens of pro-democracy protesters stood firm within a besieged Hong Kong university on Wednesday, where an “SOS” sign was laid out as supporters took up calls to distract...
BANGKOK: Thailand’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday disqualified outspoken opposition party leader Thanathorn Jungroongruangkit as a member of parliament (MP) after finding him...
SYDNEY: Two gay Saudi journalists who sought asylum in Australia after being threatened at home over their relationship have been held for weeks at an immigration detention centre,...
MANILA: Just hours after Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announced he would ban e-cigarette use, police were ordered on Wednesday to begin arresting people caught vaping in...
GEORGIA: A 16-year-old high school student was arrested on suspicion of planning to attack black people at a predominantly African-American church in the southeastern US state...
PEKANBARU: A Sumatran elephant was found decapitated with its tusks ripped off in an apparent poaching of the critically endangered subspecies, an Indonesian conservation official...
OTTAWA: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will shuffle his cabinet on Wednesday and insiders say he may well move Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland into a new job and ask...
KABUL: Two American service members have been killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan, US forces there said Wednesday, adding that the crash appeared to be an accident, though...
BANGKOK: The billionaire frontman of Thailand’s anti-military parliamentary bloc is set to hear a court ruling Wednesday that could lead to him being banned from politics and jailed...
JERUSALEM: The Israeli army confirmed it carried out strikes on Syrian and Iranian “terror targets” near Damascus on Wednesday, in response to fire from Syria the day before.
