TOKYO: A strong typhoon barrelled toward Japan’s northern island yesterday after churning over parts of western Japan already hit by…

SEOUL: A South Korean appeal court yesterday extended ex-president Park Geun-hye’s prison sentence for corruption and abuse of power by…

UNITED NATIONS, United States: Russia will oppose a US request to the UN Security Council to blacklist two Russian shipping…

GENEVA: A doctor has become the first probable Ebola case in one of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s “high…

BRUSSELS: The EU hit back Friday at Italian “threats” after the deputy prime minister warned that Rome would pull funding…

SHENZHEN, China/BEIJING: Police in riot gear stormed an apartment in southern China on Friday where about 40 student activists and…

TREUENBRIETZEN, Germany: Hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes as around 600 firefighters battled a blaze in a forest…

BUENOS AIRES: Police accompanied by sniffer dogs searched the homes of Argentina’s former president Cristina Kirchner on Thursday as the…