Tens of millions of people on Indonesia's heavily populated Java island were affected by a widespread electricity outage Sunday after the state utility PLN reported disruptions at several power plants. The shutdown plunged buildings in the sprawling capital Jakarta -- home to some 30...
A blast killed 20 regime forces at a military airport in central Homs province on Saturday, an activist group and pro-regime Russia Today TV said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which is based in Britain and relies on a network of sources on the ground, said it was still...
Civilian casualty rates across Afghanistan jumped back to record levels last month, following a dip earlier in the year, the UN said Saturday. According to the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, more than 1,500 civilians were killed or wounded in the Afghan conflict in July, the highest...
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said Russia was to blame after the United States withdrew from the landmark nuclear missile pact (INF) between the two countries, saying the United Kingdom fully supported NATO's response. "Russia has caused the INF Treaty to collapse by secretly...
