OSAKA/TOKYO: Two US billionaires are betting on rival cities, Tokyo and Osaka, to be the first in Japan to open…

TEPALCATEPEC, Mexico: Authorities have begun handing blue police uniforms and assault rifles to vigilantes in western Mexico, legalising a movement…

BRASILIA: Brazil began deploying 30,000 troops on Saturday to patrol its borders and beef up security for the World Cup…

THE HAGUE: Niger Delta gunmen have released three Dutch nationals who were abducted a week earlier, the Dutch foreign ministry…

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has announced 13 more deaths from the MERS coronavirus, as the World Health Organisation prepared for an…

TEHRAN: Iran will not accept ‘nuclear apartheid’ but is willing to offer more transparency over its atomic activities, President Hassan…

JOHANNESBURG: South African President Jacob Zuma has dedicated his ANC’s landslide victory in this week’s elections to Nelson Mandela, 20…

France: French President Francois Hollande said Saturday the sale of two Mistral warships to Russia would continue “for now” despite…