White House hopeful Donald Trump claimed victory yesterday in the Republican nomination race, while shrugging off criticism from the man he aims to replace, President Barack Obama, who blasted the billionaire's ignorance and arrogant attitude.
Deep-water search operations to locate the wreckage and black boxes of the EgyptAir jet that plunged into the Mediterranean last week will start in the coming days, France's BEA air safety agency said yesterday.
Masked youths clashed with police in Paris and striking workers blockaded refineries and disrupted nuclear power stations yesterday as an escalating wave of industrial action against labour reforms rocked France.
The scandal over Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while secretary of state returned on Wednesday to dog her presidential campaign.
France said yesterday it had been forced to dip into strategic fuel reserves due to blockades at refineries as power station workers voted to join gathering protests against controversial labour law reforms.
The world needs to act together on the refugee crisis gripping Europe, and not leave the continent to battle the problem alone, European Council President Donald Tusk said on Thursday.
An aid convoy was refused entry to Syria's Daraya Thursday, the Red Cross said, dashing hopes for the first such delivery since regime forces began a siege of the rebel-held town in 2012.
France has arrested 101 people since the start of the year over "direct links to terrorism", Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said in an interview to be published Friday, exactly six months after the Paris attacks.
The threat posed by the massive fire that led to the evacuation of Fort McMurray, Canada has diminished, but it will take time before residents can return home, officials said Thursday.
The plane took off from Arizona en route to Oklahoma on Thursday, resuming its record-breaking quest to circle the globe without consuming a drop of fuel.
The European Central Bank is set to decide today the fate of the 500-euro banknote, which many people associate with money laundering, the black market and terrorist financing.
Donald Trump looked all-but-certain of carrying the Republican Party colors in the 2016 presidential election after the billionaire political novice sent his only serious challenger Ted Cruz crashing out of the race.
The UN Security Council will hold an urgent meeting today to discuss the crisis in Syria’s frontline city of Aleppo, where fighting threatens to unravel international peace efforts.
The European Commission will today give conditional backing to visa-free travel for more than 80 million Turks as the EU tries to save a controversial deal with Ankara to solve the migrant crisis.
Britain's foreign secretary met Cuban officials yesterday on the first such visit to the country since 1959, for talks on boosting trade and tourism ties with the state.
Large parts of Australia's Great Barrier Reef could be dead within 20 years as climate change drives mass coral bleaching, scientists warned today
The IMF has agreed a US$1.5 billion loan for Sri Lanka in support of economic reforms aimed at reversing a two-decade decline in tax revenue and reviving growth, it said today.
Two dozen police officers were injured yesterday, three of them seriously, as violence flared in mass protests across France against a hotly contested labour reform bill.
Cambodia does not have any new agreements regarding the South China Sea (East Sea) issue with China, the country’s Secretary of State and Spokesman for the Council of Ministers, Phay Siphan, has said.
