Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Brazil's deeply polarised presidential race took centre stage on Sunday as election hopefuls sparred during a debate in advance of the country's national and state-level elections. Several candidates rounded

A court in Sweden has sentenced a French national at the centre of a sex abuse and financial crimes scandal, which rocked the academy that awards Nobel Prize for literature, to two years in

BEIRUT: More than 18,000 people, nearly half of them civilians, have been killed in Russian airstrikes on Syria since Moscow began its game-changing intervention three years ago, a monitor said.Russia, a steadfast ally of

A year after the October 1 referendum on seceding from Spain, Catalonia is no closer to independence, and many of the figureheads of the movement remain in jail. The unauthorised poll produced a "yes" vote but

The White House has denied reports it is trying to limit the FBI investigation into the president's Supreme Court pick. The agency is looking into two allegations of sexual misconduct against Brett Kavanaugh. Accusations

Rescuers in the Indonesia island of Sulawesi are racing against the clock to save those still trapped in the rubble, as volunteers dug mass graves to bury at least 832 killed in an earthquake and tsunami disaster.

Negotiators from Canada and the United States went down to the wire but were able to reach an agreement on a new free trade pact that will include Mexico, the governments announced late on

Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev has urged parliament to "confirm the will of the majority" after "more than 90 percent" of referendum voters agreed to change the country's name. However, the leader of Macedonia's

Can Tesla navigate through its many controversies and still meet its sales targets? We're about to find out. Early next week Tesla will report how many cars it made in the third quarter and

Prominent human rights lawyer Amal Clooney on Friday called on Myanmar officials to release two Reuters journalists who have been imprisoned since last year. Clooney represents the reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo,