Japan has begun main reclamation work at a controversial US military airbase on the southern island of Okinawa, prompting protests and "strong" opposition from the local governor. Construction workers on Friday started dumping a

A seven-year-old girl has died after being taken into custody by the US Border Patrol, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed on Thursday.  The girl, from Guatemala, died of dehydration and shock eight

Hong Kong (CNN Business)Canadian and US companies are bracing themselves for fallout from the arrest of a top executive at Chinese tech giant Huawei.Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's chief financial officer, is out on bail after

AMMAN: Israel was accused on Thursday of humiliating Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas by placing Ramallah on virtual lockdown amid a 24-hour outbreak of violence in which five people died. The bloodshed began when Israeli forces

LONDON: A UN investigation into atrocities committed against Yazidis and others in Iraq will do more than simply gather information that will molder in an archive, the probe’s leader said on Wednesday, it will help

AMMAN: Two babies have died of illness in the past week at a camp for displaced people on the Syrian border with Jordan, the UN children’s agency UNICEF said Thursday. The deaths prompted UNICEF to

After a two-day manhunt, authorities in France say police have found and killed the suspected gunman who shot three people dead at a Christmas market in Strasbourg. More than 700 French security forces in the northeastern French

Federal prosecutors in New York are investigating whether US President Donald Trump's inaugural committee misspent some of the record $107m it raised from donors, the Wall Street Journal has reported, citing people it said

A move by Cambodia's single-party parliament to allow banned politicians to potentially return to politics has further stoked divisions in the country's fractured opposition, with some welcoming the development and others dismissing it as

The emancipation of women is one of the most significant aspects of social and cultural transformation around the world. Women are gradually moving to occupy more space in the public arena. However, in Africa,