Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said Monday protesters involved in the latest clashes with the police could be described as "rioters" and that she supported police upholding the law and seeking those responsible. Lam made the comments at a hospital where three police officers were being...

Hong Kong protesters are set to rally for a second day on Sunday in an area popular with mainland Chinese shoppers as anger over the government’s handling of an extradition bill revives other grievances, such as an influx of cross-border visitors. On Saturday, a largely peaceful...

China’s military recently carried out air and naval drills along its southeast coast, the Defence Ministry said on Sunday, following the latest arms sales from the United States to self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims as a renegade province. In a brief statement, and without giving an...

Hong Kong protesters clashed with police on Saturday in a town near the boundary with mainland China where thousands rallied against the presence of Chinese traders, seizing on another grievance following major unrest over an extradition bill. The demonstration in the Hong Kong territorial...

Protests continued in at least three major cities of Myanmar, demanding justice for a three-year old girl, sexually assaulted in a private nursery school in the capital Nay Pyi Taw on May 16.    The incident has sparked a national outrage, with social media users launching an...

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan's government is facing its first countrywide strike of traders on Saturday against a hike in taxes in current fiscal budget of 2019-20.   "We are observing a countrywide shutter down strike, all markets in major cities of the country are closed...

Greece's new government says it is recognizing Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido as the country's interim president, saying this would align Greece with the European Union's joint position. The foreign ministry announcement Friday reverses the previous government's position, which...

Just a week after insisting that he was "absolutely moving forward," President Donald Trump abandoned his effort to insert a citizenship question into next year's census. He directed federal agencies to try to compile the information using existing databases instead. "It is essential...

A small group of protesters paraded Friday around Hong Kong government headquarters with a mock coffin of city leader Carrie Lam, as activists announced more protests. The march marked the one-month anniversary of the start of major protests that have rocked the semi-autonomous Chinese...

Thousands of mourners, including relatives of the victims, are gathering for a commemoration on the 24th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, the worst mass killing in Europe since World War II. The ceremony at a memorial site near Srebrenica Thursday will include the burial of 33...

A huge blaze broke out Thursday at a gas-fired power station just outside Moscow with a plume of smoke and flames surging 50 meters into the sky, Russian television showed. The fire at Power Station No. 27 broke out around 11:00 a.m. Thursday. The emergencies ministry said that at least...

The European Union will put on hold high-level talks with Ankara and negotiations on an air transport agreement, as well as freeze funding for Turkey next year, over "illegal" drilling for gas and oil off Cyprus, according to a draft statement seen by Reuters. The joint EU decision,...

More than 20 people including pregnant women and children have been killed in recent tribal violence in Papua New Guinea, media reported Wednesday. The death toll and dates of the violence in the remote highland province of Hela varied in reports by Australian Broadcasting Corp. and the...

 Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam’s apologies and explanations for a doomed extradition bill have failed to quell political tension and her departure is now seen by many in the Chinese-ruled city as merely a matter of time in a drawn-out, long goodbye. On Tuesday, Lam described the bill,...

China urged Washington Tuesday to "immediately cancel" the potential sale of $2.2 billion in weapons to Taiwan, including battle tanks and anti-aircraft missiles. "The sale of weapons by the United States to Taiwan... seriously violates the one-China principle... grossly interferes in...

U.S. and Taliban officials will on Tuesday resume talks in Qatar aimed at ending Afghanistan’s 18-year war, hours after a delegation of Afghan citizens and the militants ended a meeting with both sides calling for an end to civilian casualties. The United States and the Taliban are getting...

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said Tuesday that the effort to amend a highly contentious extradition bill was dead, but it wasn't clear if the legislation was being formally withdrawn as protesters have demanded. Leaders of the monthlong protest movement vowed to keep up pressure until the...

Donald Trump launched an extraordinary attack Monday on outgoing British premier Theresa May, following the leak of diplomatic cables highly critical of his presidency. London has been scrambling to stem the damage caused by the weekend release of confidential telegrams in which its envoy...

After mass demonstrations on Sunday against the proposed changes to extradition bill in Hong Kong, police have arrested six persons, local media reported Monday. Tens of hundreds of people marched against the bill on Hong Kong streets yesterday towards Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong Express...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo launched a panel to re-examine the role of human rights in U.S. foreign policy Monday, which some lawmakers and activists worry could be a move to minimize abortion and gay rights. Pompeo named Harvard Law School professor Mary Ann Glendon, a former U.S....