Strategically placed Sri Lanka’s economic recovery was essential for stability in the Indo-Pacific region, Japan’s foreign minister said Saturday, urging Colombo to swiftly restructure its foreign debt. Yoko Kamikawa said…

India is not xenophobic, the country’s foreign minister has insisted, after comments by US President Joe Biden suggesting the South Asian nation and fellow ally Japan were struggling economically because…

NOW Spain on Saturday denounced comments by Argentina’s presidency which had accused the Spanish government of bringing “poverty and death” to its own people. 21 mins ago The Nigerian government…

Britain’s ruling Conservatives braced Saturday for further losses in local elections, their worst results in recent memory and a key test before a general election to be held by January….

Armed groups in Gaza, including one with presumed Hamas links, last month robbed the Bank of Palestine of some $70 million…

By AFP 04 May 2024   |   10:03 am French prosecutors said Saturday they were investigating oil giant TotalEnergies for possible involuntary manslaughter in connection with a 2021 jihadist…

By AFP 04 May 2024   |   8:18 am One person was killed and six injured overnight in a gritty northern Paris suburb in a shooting likely linked to…

Kenya and Tanzania were on alert on Saturday for a cyclone heading towards their Indian Ocean coastlines, threatening to pile on more misery after deadly floods ravaging the region. About…

Three bodies were found in Mexico’s Baja California state, the FBI said Friday, days after two Australians and an American went missing during a surfing trip in an area hit…

Clambering hand-over-hand, sweat dripping into his eyes, a durian labourer expertly slices a cumbersome fruit from a tree before tossing it down to land with a soft thump in his…