Berlin (AFP) – Germany's former chancellor Angela Merkel gives a spirited defence of her 16 years at the helm of Europe's top ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel recalls Vladimir Putin's “power games” over the years, remembers contrasting meetings ...

A mammoth rape trial in France moved into a new phase Monday as prosecutors began to lay out the verdicts and punishments ...

Dreams have come early for cricket-mad Vaibhav Suryavanshi, the shy schoolboy aged 13 who is the youngest player in Indian ...

Police in Laos have detained the manager and seven staff of a backpacker hostel in Vang Vieng following the deaths of six ...

Israel looks set to approve a US plan for a ceasefire with Lebanon's Hezbollah on Tuesday, a senior Israeli official said, ...

Israel's security cabinet was due to meet Tuesday to vote on a proposed ceasefire in its war with Hezbollah in Lebanon, an ...

Turkey is yet again cracking down on the Kurdish political movement. Only weeks after president Recep Tayyip Erdogan hinted ...

Russians have been flocking to Thailand since the start of Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, as they can enter the ...

Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz told the UN’s Lebanon envoy on Tuesday that any breach of a ceasefire deal that the ...

Avignon (France) (AFP) – French prosecutors on Tuesday demanded sentences of up to 12 years for some of the remaining ...

Nearly four years after his death, LGBTQ activist Edgar Ng was vindicated by Hong Kong's top court Tuesday as judges ruled in ...