A fire that engulfed a five-storey building killed over 70 people including children in central Johannesburg on Thursday, the South African city’s emergency services said. Another 52 were injured, some
Six men prod and poke at dense undergrowth in eastern Myanmar with rakes and hoes — not farmers, but a rebel unit clearing deadly landmines from the war raging between
India’s Adani Group hit back Thursday at a new report investigating alleged manipulation of the conglomerate’s share prices, accusing its authors of conspiring to drive down its stocks for profit.
Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was on Wednesday remanded in jail over a leaked documents case, extending his detention despite the suspension of his prison term for graft a
A retired Chilean general killed himself on Tuesday before he could be jailed for the 1973 murder of beloved folk singer Victor Jara in the aftermath of a military coup
A drone attack on an airport in the north-western Russian city of Pskov has damaged two military transport planes, Russian news agencies are reporting. The Ilyushin 76 transport planes caught
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for his military to be constantly ready for combat to thwart its rivals’ plots to invade his country, state media said Tuesday, as
A Pakistan high court on Tuesday suspended former prime minister Imran Khan’s prison sentence for a graft conviction, a spokesman for his party said, but it was unclear if he
Japan said on Tuesday that harassment being faced by Japanese in China after the release of water from the Fukushima nuclear plant was ‘extremely regrettable’, confirming that a brick was
Russian air defences destroyed a drone approaching Moscow and two in a region bordering Ukraine, authorities said early Monday. Air defences in the Lyubertsy district southeast of the capital “destroyed