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Former Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was freed yesterday from years of hospital detention after the Supreme Court cleared her of a plunder charge in what anti-corruption advocates called “a
South Korean prosecutors have indicted a leading baseball player for allegedly manipulating games for gambling purposes in what could be another blow to the reputation of the country’s professional sports leagues. Prosecutors
CHINA At least 75 people in northern China have died or gone missing since Monday in some of the worst flooding in years, the government said yesterday. The figures released
Donald Trump, a real-estate developer, TV personality, and political novice, was formally nominated as the 2016 Republican presidential candidate yesterday in Cleveland after his campaign and party officials quashed
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is convening a meeting of his top security officials for the first time since Friday night’s thwarted coup, and has vowed to make an “important” announcement
The MP for Sedgefield, Tony Blair, has been confirmed as the new leader of the Labour Party. The results of the Labour Party ballot - announced just after 1200 BST at
The U.N. human rights office is expressing concern about deteriorating human rights, growing violence and “severe shortages” of food, medicine and basic goods in Venezuela. The office of human rights chief
CHINA Nationalists are protesting at KFC outlets and calling for a boycott, spurred by government accusations that Washington encouraged Manila to oppose Beijing’s claims to vast tracts of ocean. Photos
Indonesia’s most wanted Islamic militant was killed in a gunbattle with security forces, a top minister said yesterday, in a victory for the government’s counterterrorism campaign that further tightens the
Orlando. Istanbul. Dallas. Nice. And now, again, Baton Rouge. Ever since a gunman opened fire on Florida nightclub goers five weeks ago, killing 49, we’ve been buffeted by images of
Melania Trump’s speech at the Republican National Convention yesterday drew attention after the discovery that two passages of her remarks matched nearly word-for-word the speech that first lady Michelle Obama
The U.N. children’s agency warns that some 49,000 children will die of malnutrition in areas once cut off by northeastern Nigeria’s Islamic extremist uprising if they don’t get treatment. UNICEF is
Thousands of Turkish troops have invaded northern Cyprus after last-minute talks in the Greek capital, Athens, failed to reach a solution. Tension has been running high in the Mediterranean island since
Authorities say two commercial airline pilots have been arrested at Glasgow Airport on suspicion of being under the influence of alcohol, shortly before they were due to take off on
CHINA Beijing’s awful air quality improved significantly in the first half of the year, with actions taken to curb the city’s heavy pollution having a positive effect, officials said. PHILIPPINES The
The Bastille Day truck attack in Nice may have shaken France’s collective psyche, further unnerving a country already traumatized by extremist attacks that have become alarmingly more frequent. Yet there
New British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who recently likened the European Union to Adolf Hitler’s vision for Europe, came to Brussels yesterday to meet for the first time with his
Some in Europe want Theresa May to know their patience has its limits. As the new British prime minister pushes back talks on leaving the European Union, officials on the continent
The Bosnian Serb President, Radovan Karadzic, has agreed to resign and withdraw from political and public life. He was ordered to step down by the Yugolsav President, Slobodan Milosevic, after marathon
An aspiring nun who was told she couldn’t enter a convent until her student loan debt was paid off has used an online appeal to get the money. Alida Taylor, 28,
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