

Thailand to maintain security during water festival
The Thai government is confident that it can maintain peace and safety of both local and foreign tourists during the popular water festival this April.
The Thai government is confident that it can maintain peace and safety of both local and foreign tourists during the popular water festival this April.
New Zealand has sweltered through its hottest summer on record and can expect more of the same if climate change continues unabated, the government's scientific agency said yesterday.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un discussed a possible summit with envoys from the South's President Moon Jae-in, both sides said on Tuesday, in the latest step of an Olympics-driven rapprochement on the divided peninsula.
US President Donald Trump claimed on Monday he was "ready to make a deal" protecting hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the country illegally as children, as lawmakers missed an initial deadline for resolving their fate.
Italy's ruling centre-left Democratic Party on Monday admitted it had suffered a "clear defeat" in a general election after coming in third according to projections.
France's Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian arrived in Tehran early on Monday for talks on the 2015 nuclear deal and Iran's role in the Syrian conflict.
South African supermarkets began a mass recall Sunday of meat products made at a facility that health officials say was the source of a listeriosis outbreak that has killed 180 since January 2017.
Silvio Berlusconi has tipped European Parliament President Antonio Tajani as his choice for Italian premier after leading his rightwing coalition in a public display of unity just days ahead of a general election.
In self-exile in Belgium and wanted in Spain, Catalonia’s deposed leader Carles Puigdemont has abandoned his bid to return as regional president in an attempt to unblock the region’s political crisis.
British Prime Minister Theresa May will detail plans today for a new economic relationship with the EU after Brexit, amid heightened tensions with Brussels over the implications for Northern Ireland.
Heavy snowfall and deadly blizzards has been lashing Europe, forcing airports to cancel or delay flights around the continent, as a deep freeze gripped countries from the far north to Mediterranean beaches in the south.
A high-level North Korean delegation reiterated the country's existing position on joint military exercises between South Korea and the United States when they visited the South for the closing ceremony of the PyeongChang Olympics, the unification minister was quoted on Thursday as saying.
Britain set out new proposals on Wednesday for the rights of EU citizens who settle there during a post-Brexit transition period, seeking to bridge the divide with Brussels over the issue.
Fresh heavy snowfalls and icy blizzards were expected to lash Europe on Thursday as the region shivers in a deadly deep-freeze that has gripped countries from the far north to the Mediterranean south.
President Donald Trump is willing to start market liberalisation talks with Japan and four other Trans-Pacific Partnership members which do not have free trade agreements with the United States, the Office of the US Trade Representative said on Wednesday.
Hope Hicks, one of Donald Trump's longest-serving aides and perhaps his most trusted confidante, on Wednesday announced her resignation in the latest of a string of departures from the embattled White House.
Two NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut returned to Earth on Wednesday, rounding off a mission of more than five months aboard the International Space Station.
EU negotiator Michel Barnier will unveil a long-awaited draft Brexit divorce treaty today which threatens to trigger new arguments with Britain on key issues.
Republican leaders rebuffed calls for major changes to US gun laws Tuesday following the mass shooting at a Florida high school, as students braced for their emotional return to the campus where 14 classmates and three staff were murdered.
Communication blackouts and blocked roads were hampering rescue efforts Wednesday as Papua New Guinea worked to get a better grasp of the damage wrought by a massive earthquake amid fears of its economic impact.