As the world focuses on the crisis facing Turkey's lira, the Turkish part of Cyprus faces an arguably worse situation that is not of its own making. The self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus

Ashraf Ghani, Afghanistan's president, has visited the embattled southeastern city of Ghazni, a week after the Taliban launched an attack and infiltrated deep into the key provincial capital. The five-day battle with the Taliban in

Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is in Beijing on his first trip to China, since winning May's election. He recently said he wants to cancel or renegotiate some of the deals struck between his

Greeks overseas are raising hundreds of thousands of dollars to help victims of fires that swept through resorts east of Athens last month. Prosecutors have launched an inquiry into why 96 people were killed.

The Asian Games are the world's second-largest sports event after the Olympics, with 14,000 athletes taking part from 45 Asian countries. Those athletes will take part in 462 medal events across 47 sports. Jakarta

On August 16, incumbent Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, was declared the winner of Mali's presidential election, securing a second five-year term in office. Keita - who is widely known as IB - got 67.2 percent

Millions across Italy are trying to come to terms with what happened in the city of Genoa on Tuesday. A huge section of the Morandi bridge simply crumbled to pieces, falling some 45 metres

Rescue workers have used helicopters and boats to evacuate hundreds of people stranded on their roofs following unprecedented flooding in India's Kerala state where more than 160 people have died over the past 10

The United Nations Human Rights Committee has called for imprisoned former president Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva to be allowed to run as a candidate in Brazil's presidential election in October. The committee, which oversees countries'

Amid President Xi Jinping's consolidation of power in China, there are growing concerns over an ongoing crackdown on religious freedoms and basic rights of minority groups in the country. China has reportedly embarked on