Apple is investigating a factory in southwest mainland China after a labour rights group said the tech giant's supplier forced student workers to work "like robots" to assemble its popular Apple Watch.
The Pentagon is deploying 5,200 active-duty troops to beef up security along the US-Mexico border, officials announced on Monday, in a bid to prevent a caravan of Central American migrants from illegally crossing the frontier.
Former nurse Niels Hoegel, accused of killing more than 100 patients in his care, will go on trial on Tuesday in the biggest serial killing trial in Germany's post-war history.
Indonesian search teams on Tuesday recovered more remains at the site of a crashed Lion Air jet that plunged into the sea with 189 people aboard, as a report said it had suffered an instrument malfunction the day before.
Security fears and a lack of jobs in African nations have hampered gains in governance across the diverse continent over the last decade, a study said Monday, warning that some promising nations had "lost momentum".
Search and rescue efforts are underway in waters off Karawang, West Java, to locate survivors of Lion Air flight JT610, which crashed early Monday morning (Oct 29) minutes after taking off from Soekarno-Hatta airport.
Former army captain Jair Bolsonaro was elected president of Brazil on Sunday, promising a fundamental change in direction for the giant Latin American country, the latest to take a turn to the right.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government on Sunday suffered a beating in a second key regional election in as many weeks, multiplying questions over the future of the veteran leader's fragile alliance.
IBM said Sunday it has reached a deal to buy open source software company Red Hat for $34 billion, among the biggest tech mergers in history which the computing giant said would enhance its cloud offerings.
The Indonesian authorities have mounted a search and rescue operation for a Lion Air plane which crashed into the sea shortly after take-off from Jakarta today morning.
China leads the region in hydropower capacity followed by India and Japan
A gunman who’s believed to have spewed anti-Semitic slurs and rhetoric on social media barged into a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday and opened fire, killing 11 people in one of the deadliest attacks on Jews in US history.
An overhaul of global trade is urgently needed, 13 trade ministers representing all regions of the world said on Thursday, following two days of talks in Ottawa aimed at setting objectives to reform the troubled system. The group made a veiled appeal to the United States to stop blocking appointments to WTO dispute resolution panels, warning the system will otherwise collapse soon.
The Pentagon is expected to deploy about 800 troops to the US-Mexico border, two US officials said on Thursday, after President Donald Trump said the military would help tackle a "national emergency" and called on a caravan of migrants to turn around.
Australia is setting up a billion-dollar fund to "future proof" the country against droughts, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday, as farmers struggle with a 'big dry' forecast set to continue for months.
Flash floods in Jordan swept away a school bus on Thursday, killing at least 17 people, mostly pupils, emergency services said, as Israel sent forces to help with rescue operations.
The man who negotiated FARC's peace agreement with the Colombian government emerged from hiding on Wednesday to comply with a demand that former guerrilla leaders reaffirm their commitment to the 2016 peace agreement that ended decades of conflict.
Pipe bombs were sent on Wednesday to Barack Obama, top Democrats and CNN, hate figures for Donald Trump supporters, while the US president tempered calls for unity by attacking the media for its "endless hostility."
Norway hosts NATO's biggest exercises since the end of the Cold War from Thursday, to remind Russia the Alliance stands united despite seeds of doubt planted by US President Donald Trump.
The World Economic Forum has released the latest version of its Global Competitiveness Index which saw differing fortunes for longstanding Asian giants.
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