Honduran hydroelectric executive convicted of environmentalist murder
TEGUCIGALPA - The general manager of a hydroelectric company in Honduras on Monday became the eighth person convicted in the 2016 murder of a...
Fears grow for dozens in landslide-hit Japan town
ATAMI, Japan: Rescue teams trawled Monday through muddy debris in a landslide-hit Japanese holiday town looking for survivors, as concerns grew that dozens of...
Cyprus worst forest fire in decades kills four
ARAKAPAS (CYPRUS) - Cyprus said a deadly forest fire that was the worst to hit the island in decades was close to being brought...
Rescuers search for survivors in landslide-hit Japan town
ATAMI, Japan: Rescuers in a Japanese holiday town hit by a deadly landslide searched for survivors Sunday, climbing across cracked roofs and checking cars...
Canadian military on alert as wildfires rage
OTTAWA - The Canadian military was on standby Saturday to help evacuate towns and fight more than 170 wildfires fueled by a record-smashing heat...
Next two weeks ‘critical’ for Indonesia
JAKARTA: The next two weeks will be a “critical time” for Indonesia, which is counting on new restrictions to bring surging coronavirus cases under...
Freed American journalist remembers horrors of Myanmar junta jail
FAIRFAX (UNITED STATES) - Journalist Nathan Maung turned to meditation when he was jailed for reporting on Myanmar's bloody coup, but even back home...
Ireland’s low-tax economy can survive OECD reform: experts
LONDON - Far-reaching global tax reforms are reaching fruition and on the face of it, Ireland has most to lose after the small European...
Complete Afghan withdrawal imminent as last US troops leave Bagram
KABUL: All US and Nato troops have left the biggest air base in Afghanistan, a US defence official told AFP Friday, signalling the complete...
Fiery feni: Making a 500-year-old liquor cool again
CANSAULIM, India: Five centuries after Goans began making feni -- a pungent, fermented liquor not for the faint-hearted -- a new crop of distillers...
