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Police fire rubber-coated bullets and tear gas as demonstrators rally to denounce assault by suspected gangsters.
Hong Kong - In defiance of a police order, thousands of protesters in Hong Kong convened in a small rural town where suspected gang members assaulted pro-democracy protesters and passersby last weekend.
What on Saturday began as a peaceful march to denounce the violence at a subway station in...
Bahrain's public prosecutor announces executions hours after UN envoy Agnes Callamard appealed to stop them.
Bahrain has executed two people convicted on terror charges, the public prosecutor has said, despite international appeals for clemency amid concerns the pair did not receive a fair trial and were coerced into making confessions through torture.
Attorney General Ahmed al-Hammadi said in a statement on Saturday that the...
Ahmed al-Qarra was shot in the stomach by Israeli soldiers and succumbed to his wounds, Gaza's health ministry says.
A Palestinian man has been killed by Israeli army fire during a weekly protest in the Gaza Strip, according to the health ministry in the besieged enclave.
The ministry said on Saturday that Ahmed al-Qarra, 23, died "as a result of wounds sustained (from) the...
Death toll given by senior investigator appointed by public prosecutor is higher than previous official figures.
An investigation has found "rogue" military personnel were responsible for killing dozens of Sudanese protesters in the worst violence since the overthrow of former President Omar al-Bashir.
The violent break-up of a protest site by security forces in Khartoum last month left 87 people dead and...
Tripoli-based government says it took down munitions depot and hit military transport aircraft at Al Jufra airbase.
Libya's internationally-recognised government has said it has struck an airbase used as a key staging post by forces loyal to renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar in transporting troops and supplies.
"The air force struck a gathering of mercenaries at the Al-Jufra base, destroying a hangar for...
Investigative committee fails to mention the whereabouts of dozens of people missing after military attack on sit-in.
"My cousin wasn't a trouble-maker, he used to stay mostly in the neighbourhood. He used to watch TV every evening and sometimes re-enact what he saw in a way that made us laugh at home."
That's how Zakia Khalil described her 18-year-old cousin Abadi...
Newly signed agreement for those seeking asylum in the US is met with outrage among activists and former officials.
Guatemala City, Guatemala - Human rights groups, activists and former officials in Guatemalahave expressed fierce opposition to a controversial migration deal signed by the country's government and the United States.
The agreement was struck on Friday, days after US President Donald Trump threatened to slap sanctions on the Central...
Navy helicopters and emergency service boats came to the rescue of more than 1,000 passengers stranded on a train in floods near Mumbai yesterday.
The Mahalaxmi Express left Mumbai late Friday for Kolhapur but travelled only 60km before it became stranded after a river burst its banks in torrential rain, covering the tracks.
The train was stuck for about 12 hours...
Four days after becoming the new prime minister, Boris Johnson has yet to make a phone call to his Irish counterpart.
Leo Varadkar appears to have been pushed back in the queue, with no arrangements yet in place for the conventional call that takes place when new leaders assume office in Ireland and the UK.
Johnson has already spoken to five...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pledged a £3.6bn boost for deprived towns as he sought to shift the political spotlight from Brexit to the domestic agenda in his first major speech as prime minister.
The Conservative leader said the proposal, which will initially support 100 towns, will help improve transport, broadband and cultural infrastructure.
The commitment, announced yesterday in Manchester, is...
Tanzanian President John Magufuli on Friday ordered the sprawling Selous Game Reserve, a Unesco World Heritage site, to be split in two to restrict the access of big game hunters.
Covering 50,000sq km, the Selous reserve is one of the largest protected areas in Africa, and is famed for its elephants, lions, black rhinos, hippos and giraffes.
About 8% of the...
The United States could bolster the battle against the Ebola virus in Democratic Republic of Congo by allowing more of its experts to travel to the outbreak zone, a senior World Health Organisation (WHO) official has said.
The virus has killed more than 1,700 people in Congo since the world’s second-worst outbreak was declared almost a year ago and is...
The Royal Canadian Air Force is joining the hunt for two fugitive teens suspected of triple murder, officials said yesterday, backing up a vast search operation unfolding in the country’s remote northeast.
The suspects, identified as Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, have been on the run for more than a week.
Authorities say they believe the two are behind...
Police fired teargas and rubber bullets at demonstrators hurling rocks in a rural Hong Kong town yesterday as several thousand activists gathered to protest an attack by suspected triad gang members at a train station last weekend.
Activists held the march in Yuen Long, scene of the attack by club-wielding men, despite a police ban on safety grounds.
Building barricades out...
