Coronavirus storm engulfs Everest
KATHMANDU - Mount Everest guide Buddhi Bahadur Lama has spent days isolated in a tent after testing positive for coronavirus, as an outbreak that...
Nearly 400,000 flee DR Congo city over fears volcano could erupt...
GOMA (DR CONGO) - The eastern DR Congo city of Goma was eerily deserted after nearly 400,000 of its inhabitants fled following warnings that...
Putin throws weight behind Belarus strongman
MOSCOW: Russia on Friday threw its weight behind Belarus's increasingly isolated regime, slamming a European overflight ban as President Vladimir Putin prepared to host...
Germany says committed genocide in Namibia during colonial rule
BERLIN - Germany for the first time on Friday recognised it had committed genocide in Namibia during its colonial occupation, with Berlin promising financial...
China tech CEOs slip off backstage to avoid Beijing’s glare
BEIJING - Bytedance founder Zhang Yiming, the brains behind TikTok, said he preferred "daydreaming" as he stepped down as head of his own firm...
‘No-one is invincible’, Rafael Nadal tells AFP ahead of French Open
PARIS - Rafael Nadal said "no-one is invincible" in an interview with AFP Thursday as he targets a 14th French Open title and record-setting...
Top China, US trade officials hold ‘candid’ first talks
BEIJING - Trade officials from the US and China have held "candid, pragmatic" talks, China's commerce ministry said Thursday, their first discussions under the...
Shares in Hong Kong democracy paper quadruple as suspension ends
HONG KONG - Shares in the parent company of Hong Kong's pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper quadrupled on Thursday as trading in them resumed following...
Three held over deadly Italy cable car crash
VERBANIA, Italy: Italian police on Wednesday arrested three managers from the operator of a cable car that crashed into a mountain killing 14 people,...
War-ravaged Syria heads to polls with Assad set to win
DAMASCUS: Polling stations opened Wednesday across Syria for an election where few doubt that Bashar al-Assad will extend his grip on power for a...
