Polar bears crowd on Russian island in sign of Arctic change
MOSCOW: A boatload of tourists in the far eastern Russian Arctic thought they were seeing clumps of ice on the…
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Rohingya crisis constitutes ethnic cleansing – Tillerson
KUALA LUMPUR: The US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Wednesday for the first time, labelled the atrocities in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State as…
South Korea quiet for quake-delayed college entrance exam
An annual hush descended upon South Korea Thursday as hundreds of thousands of students sat the crucial national college entrance…
PNG police move in on closed Australia refugee camp on Manus
Papua New Guinea police moved into the shuttered Australian refugee camp on the country’s Manus Island Thursday in the most…
North Korea says US terror sponsor label a ‘serious provocation’
SEOUL: North Korea condemned its US terror listing as a “serious provocation” on Wednesday, warning that sanctions would never force…
Zimbabwe’s next leader says post-Mugabe era is ‘full democracy’
HARARE: Zimbabwe’s incoming president Emmerson Mnangagwa told adoring crowds in Harare on Wednesday that they were witnessing “unfolding full democracy”…
Zimbabwe’s next leader heads home
Former vice-president Emmerson Mnangagwa to be sworn-in on Friday after Mugabe’s shock resignation HARARE: Zimbabwe’s former vice-president Emmerson Mnangagwa was…
Eight rescued after US Navy aircraft crashes in Philippine Sea
TOKYO: Eight people have been rescued after a US military aircraft with 11 people aboard crashed into the Philippine Sea…