The incident happened on March 2 near the contested Scarborough Shoal -- one of the region's richest fishing grounds and a flashpoint between the two countries -- but was only made public Sunday. It was the fourth time in the past year that a Chin...

Once a global logistics and transportation hub, Hong Kong has imposed some of the world's harshest travel restrictions under its zero-Covid policy. One of these measures is the city's "route-specific suspension mechanism", which previously banned a...

A milky-eyed wolf prowls in its enclosure. Boris the goat bathes his bedraggled face in the spring sunshine. A parliament of owls peers out from the perches of their shaded roost. In a side building around a dozen cats from Kyiv are lodged. Dogs yo...

Buoyed in part by his shuttle diplomacy ahead of the conflict and toughness on Moscow since the tanks began to roll, liberal incumbent Emmanuel Macron is riding high in the polls with two weeks to go. But as the president "is totally absorbed by th...

Firebrand Orban has been at the helm for 12 years and is seeking a fourth straight term at Sunday's poll, for which an unprecedented 20,000 volunteer poll observers are being mobilised. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE...

The Southeast Asian country has been in chaos since a putsch in February 2021, with more than 1,700 people killed in crackdowns on dissent, according to a local monitoring group. Across the country "People's Defence Force" fighters -- often armed w...

Most foreigners here since Saddam's ouster in a 2003 US-led invasion have worn army fatigues and carried guns -- but more recently there has been a trickle of camera-toting travel pioneers. "Iraq was in my top three countries," said the visitor to ...

The Boeing 737-800 was flying between the cities of Kunming and Guangzhou on Monday when it nosedived into a mountainside, disintegrating on impact and killing all 132 people on board. The cause of the disaster, China's deadliest plane crash in mo...

It sealed a dramatic resurgence for the defending champions who had been on the brink of elimination after losing their first three matches in the 50-over competition. They then won all of their remaining four games to secure a place in the top fou...

Gang violence has soared in El Salvador in recent days, with more than 20 killings registered since Friday night, government human rights lawyer Ricardo Martinez reported, while other public security sources said up to 30 homicides may have taken pl...

"It's an event which won't ever happen again, we won't have the chance of seeing another queen or king on the throne for 70 years. So it's a big deal," he told AFP. Willis is the owner of Goviers in Stoke-on-Trent, central England, which has specia...

The jet was flying between the cities of Kunming and Guangzhou on Monday when it nosedived into a mountainside with 132 people on board, all of whom were killed. The cause of the disaster is not yet known. "The second black box from China Eastern...

But then Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine and things got complicated -- fast. Russia is one of the world's biggest producers of nickel ore, a key component of batteries for electric vehicles. As concussive Western sanctions over t...

"I used to eat a slice of meat, chicken or fish every day, but the prices of these items have become ridiculous," the 44-year-old mother of two told AFP. "Out of necessity and not choice, I have almost become a vegetarian," she added. Lebanon is ...

India is the home to a quarter of the world's TB infections and an estimated half a million people died of the curable lung disease in 2020 in the South Asian nation -- a third of the global toll. Because of the pandemic, global deaths from the "si...