UN aid agencies and donor countries gathered in Oslo yesterday for a two-day meeting to raise emergency aid for millions of people threatened by famine in northeastern Nigeria, a Boko Haram stronghold.
France’s Emmanuel Macron won the support of a key centrist yesterday, hailing it as a turning point in his presidential campaign as an aide to his far-right rival Marine Le Pen was charged in a fake jobs scandal.
After nearly a year of occupying North Dakota prairie land to block the route of a controversial oil pipeline, many of the camp's holdouts finally marched out Wednesday to meet an evacuation deadline.
Pyongyang’s state media on Thursday blasted Malaysia for an “illegal and immoral” autopsy on a man believed be the half-brother of North Korea’s leader, breaking a 10-day silence on the airport assassination.
The first multilateral deal agreed at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) came into force Wednesday, a step billed as a milestone for the body facing unprecedented threats from a hostile US administration.
The Trump administration issued on Tuesday tough new orders for a sweeping crackdown on illegal immigrants, putting nearly all of the country’s 11 million undocumented foreigners in its cross-hairs.
Seven million Yemenis are closer than ever to starvation, the UN humanitarian coordinator in the country has warned, almost two years since a conflict escalated between the government and rebels.
US Ambassador Nikki Haley said the United States is ready to improve ties with Russia but will not compromise on its support for NATO and the European Union.
The bodies of 74 migrants who drowned in the Mediterranean trying to reach Europe have washed up on a beach west of the Libyan capital, the Red Crescent said on Tuesday.
Britain’s "Brexit" minister responsible for managing its departure from the European Union on Tuesday denied reports his government was planning to pay eastern EU states to support it during negotiations with Brussels.
Thousands of protesters rallied outside parliament on Monday as MPs debated a petition to cancel a state visit by US President Donald Trump which gained more than 1.8 million signatures.
Malaysian armed guards on Tuesday stood watch at the hospital holding the body of Kim Jong-Nam, the assassinated half-brother of North Korea's leader, amid reports his son had come to Kuala Lumpur to claim the remains.
US Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly leaves for Guatemala and Mexico on Wednesday to discuss border security and trade with the countries' presidents and other top officials.
European countries that vote populists into power will experience a fall in jobs, investment and exports as they pull out of the EU, French President Francois Hollande warned on Monday.
Almost 1.4 million children suffering from severe malnutrition could die this year from famine in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, the UN children's agency said on Monday.
A light aircraft exploded on Tuesday in a "massive fireball" with police saying none of the five people aboard survived as it smashed into a shopping centre near the Australian city of Melbourne.
Britain’s House of Lords begins debating a bill today empowering Prime Minister Theresa May to kickstart Brexit – a potentially tricky test given her Conservatives do not hold a majority there.
