New York, United States - S'bu Zikode, the leader of a shack dwellers' movement in Durban, South Africa, said he received a tip-off from police in July that he was being targeted and his

The search for earthquake and tsunami victims in Indonesia is to officially end on Thursday. It has been more than 10 days since the disaster and there may be thousands still missing in some

Turkey has formally requested access to search Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul as part of what Turkish officials say is a murder investigation into the case of missing Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi.  Officials in

I am writing this with a deep sense of sadness and foreboding. If, as appears increasingly to be the case, the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi is dead then I grieve the loss of a

Campaigners are calling on India to protect girls in state-run institutions who are at risk of sexual assault and violence after 34 girls were violently attacked by a mob for fighting off sexual harassers in Bihar

DUBAI: Forecasters say a tropical depression 1,040 km off the coast of southern Oman has developed into a tropical cyclone. But the India Meteorological Department warned it could develop into a severe cyclonic storm

DAMASCUS: Syria’s President Bashar Assad on Sunday said that a Russia-Turkey deal for the last major rebel bastion of Idlib was a “temporary measure,” state news agency SANA reported.“The agreement is a temporary measure

DUBAI: Forecasters say a tropical depression 1,040 km off the coast of southern Oman has developed into a tropical cyclone. But the India Meteorological Department warned it could develop into a severe cyclonic storm

A Romanian referendum aimed at changing the definition of marriage to exclude same-sex couples has failed after turnout fell well below the threshold. Final results, published on Monday, showed a voter turnout of just over

Hundreds of thousands of children are suffering acute malnutrition because of the war in Yemen. Two weeks ago, we reported how two-year-old Bassam Hassan's parents in the Houthi-controlled north could not afford to take