The Netherlands has announced it is prepared to welcome some of the 32 refugees and migrants waiting to disembark from a Dutch-flagged vessel in the Mediterranean if other countries did the same. "The Netherlands has
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Critics say Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's landslide victory in Sunday's election could allow her to become even more authoritarian. Led by Hasina's party, Awami League, the ruling coalition won more than 95 percent
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(CNN Business)A picture of a woman breastfeeding a baby. A fully clothed woman taking selfies in the mirror. A photo of a vase. These images were all wrongly flagged by Tumblr as improper. Tumblr
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BAGHDAD: A video of an Iraqi member of parliament firing into the air has sparked anger after stray bullets from celebratory New Year gunfire killed a teenage girl. A further 170 people were either injured
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BEIRUT: With the end of the holiday period, Lebanese politicians have revived efforts to form a government before the Arab Economic and Social Development Summit in Beirut on Jan. 16-18. The Maronite Patriarchate’s media
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BEIRUT: With the end of the holiday period, Lebanese politicians have revived efforts to form a government before the Arab Economic and Social Development Summit in Beirut on Jan. 16-18. The Maronite Patriarchate’s media
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US tech giant Apple has taken the rare step of slashing its quarterly sales forecast, acknowledging that demand for iPhones is slowing and confirming investor concerns that its most profitable product has lost some of
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A Chinese probe is expected to touch down on the dark side of the moon on Thursday, according to the CGTN state broadcaster, in a groundbreaking mission in space exploration. China's space agency, however,
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China's President Xi Jinping warned on Wednesday that the unification of China and Taiwan was "inevitable", with the use of military force remaining an option. Xi made the comments during a speech marking the
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Donald Trump showed no signs of budging on his demand for border wall funding on Wednesday, the 12th day of a partial federal government shutdown. The shutdown, which began on December 22, was triggered
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