The arrest was confirmed by a second legal source. Police have yet to respond to a request for comment. Hui was arrested for "collusion with foreign forces", one source said, an offence under a new security law that Beijing imposed on Hong Kong in ...

Close on the heels of April's presidential vote, French voters go back to the ballot box on June 12 and 19 to elect lawmakers to the National Assembly. France's legislative elections tend to pale next to the limelight-stealing race for the Élysée ...

Police say eight people have died since Monday, when frustration at a dire economic crisis erupted into violence between backers and opponents of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, injuring over 200. Even with a curfew and thousands of security forces t...

Now they expect him to deliver. Residents of the impoverished Baseco neighbourhood in Manila do not think of 64-year-old Marcos, nicknamed Bongbong, as the mega-rich scion of a political dynasty famed for extorting billions, stockpiling designer sh...

With an initial count almost complete, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, popularly known as "Bongbong", has secured over 56 percent of the vote and more than double the tally of his nearest rival, liberal Leni Robredo. The win is an astonishing reversal in the ...

One of the doctors reassured the wincing fighter that the tourniquet being squeezed just above his knee did not mean he was about to lose a part of his leg. Another peered back at the smoke rising above one of the biggest battles of Russia's method...

The female leviathan, one of Southeast Asia's largest and rarest species of fish, was caught by accident last week in Stung Treng province when it swallowed a smaller fish that had taken a baited hook. An international team of experts on the US-fun...

Paraguayan anti-drug prosecutor Marcelo Pecci was shot dead execution-style Tuesday while honeymooning on a Colombian Caribbean island by attackers who fled by sea, police and his widow said.

Indonesia's Bilqis Prasista, 18, saw off Japan's world champion 21-19, 21-19 in 35 minutes at Bangkok's Impact Arena. But Japan roared back to beat the Indonesians 4-1 and top Group A. Both teams have qualified for the quarter-finals of the women's...

New Zealand Rugby members have been asked to vote on the proposed investment from Silver Lake at the meeting in Auckland on June 2. Chief executive Mark Robinson is anxious it be approved to bring economic muscle to match the northern hemisphere na...

Al Jazeera said Abu Aqleh, 51, a prominent figure in the channel's Arabic news service was shot "deliberately" and "in cold blood," by Israeli troops. The Israeli army confirmed it had conducted an operation early Wednesday in Jenin refugee camp, ...

Al-Jazeera journalist Shereen Abu Aqleh was shot and killed while covering an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank town of Jenin early on Wednesday. The Qatar-based news channel said the 51-year-old reporter was shot "deliberately" and "in cold b...

Marcos senior died in exile in 1989, but his remains were only interred in the national heroes' cemetery in Manila in 2016 after President Rodrigo Duterte defied public outcry to order their burial with full military honours. In 1986, the patriarc...

China's flagship zero-Covid strategy to defeat the pandemic is unsustainable, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, adding that it had told Beijing so and called for a policy shift.

"Miami has always been the destination of those who suffered from Latin American dictatorships," Cuban dissident and playwright Yunior Garcia, who went into self-imposed exile in Madrid in November, told AFP. But now "many Latin Americans are choos...