International

GENEVA (20 October 2017) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein will visit Peru and Uruguay next week to discuss progress and challenges concerning human rights in these countries. He will also launch a joint plan of…

The widow of a dead US soldier says Donald Trump could not remember her husband's name when he phoned to offer condolences. Myeshia Johnson, widow of Sgt La David Johnson, told ABC News the president's "stumbling" had "hurt her the…

The "only way" to deal with British IS fighters in Syria is "in almost every case" to kill them, the minister for international development has said. Rory Stewart said converts to so-called Islamic State believed in an "extremely hateful…

(CNN) The Presidents club is turning on its newest member. Breaking the code of silence that retired commanders in chief normally maintain about their successors, both George W. Bush and Barack Obama delivered clear jabs at the current…

Brussels (CNN) European leaders have indicated that they are ready to start discussing their relationship with the UK after Brexit, giving embattled British Prime Minister Theresa May a much-needed boost after months of talks that appeared…

The White House chief of staff has launched an impassioned attack on a congresswoman who said President Trump made a war widow cry. General John Kelly said he was "broken-hearted" that the Democrat had listened to the president's…

Spain is to start suspending Catalonia's autonomy from Saturday, as the region's leader threatens to declare independence. The government said ministers would meet to activate Article 155 of the constitution, allowing it to take over…

Minister Lee Ying-yuan Environmental Protection Administration Republic of China (Taiwan) says Climate change is a scientific fact, and its effects are already being distinctly felt around the world, threatening human health, the places…

A spate of wildfires in central and north Portugal which started at the weekend has killed at least 31 people, civil defence authorities say. Dozens of the 145 fires still raging are considered serious, a spokeswoman said. Read more:…

Bowe Bergdahl, the US soldier held as a Taliban captive in Afghanistan for five years, has pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehaviour before the enemy. The 31-year-old Army sergeant entered his plea on Monday before a military judge at…

Police in the US and UK have launched investigations into allegations against film producer Harvey Weinstein. The New York Police Department is looking into an allegation dating from 2004 and is reviewing whether there are any additional…

Israel has said it will join the US in pulling out of the UN's cultural organisation Unesco, after US officials cited "anti-Israel bias". Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the US decision as "brave and moral", a statement…

More than 150 people are missing in wildfires that have ravaged northern California's wine region, police say. At least 17 people are now confirmed dead and more than 2,000 buildings have been destroyed by the fires which broke out on…

India's Supreme Court has struck down a legal clause that permits men to have sex with their underage wives. The clause, which was part of India's law on rape, said intercourse between a man and his wife was permissible as long as she…

The prevention of fraud crimes has long been one of the key policies of Taiwan. Following the liberalization and globalization of telecommunication and internet, fraud cases now become more grouped and organized, which are often integrated…