Human rights groups have condemned the decision by Seoul to repatriate two North Korean fishermen accused of murder, insisting that the men will not receive fair trials and face “torture and almost-certain execution”. It is the first time since the end […]
Burkina Faso is on edge after unknown gunmen killed 37 people in a mining convoy on Wednesday, in the country’s deadliest attack since an upsurge of jihadist violence began five years ago. The assailants ambushed buses and 4x4s carrying local […]
South Korea’s Supreme Court has overturned a lower court decision and ruled that sexually explicit drawings of teenagers in “anime” cartoons and “manga” comics should be considered images of child sexual abuse. After issuing its ruling on Thursday, the court […]
China on Thursday jailed nine people for selling fentanyl to Americans, the result of a landmark joint probe, and pledged further co-operation following President Donald Trump’s fury at Beijing’s perceived inaction against Chinese suppliers fuelling the deadly US opioid crisis. Despite Mr […]
All 39 people found dead inside a lorry container in Essex have been identified as Vietnamese, the country’s Ministry of Public Security has said. Essex Police had initially said that officers believed the 31 men and eight women to be Chinese […]
A bitter fight has erupted in Germany’s conservative CDU party over whether they should consider working with the far-right Alternative for Germany in the eastern state of Thuringia. Angela Merkel’s party face an invidious choice in Thuringia after recent elections […]
Click:Flower shop supplies President Donald Trump has approved a mission for US troops to return to Syria to "secure" its oil fields, despite promises to withdraw all forces from the war-torn country. Under Mr Trump’s new plan, troops would protect […]
Twenty-eight passengers were forced to wait for three hours on a halted train before being disinfected by firefighters after a journey to Brussels airport was stopped by an anthrax scare. An abandoned suitcase was noticed by a conductor on the […]
A photograph of Prince Andrew with a woman abused by Jeffrey Epstein as a teenager is definitively not fake, the woman has said, in her first comments on the row over the image. Virginia Roberts-Giuffre, now 35, claims that she […]
Kulak in Russian means "fist," as in "you tight-fisted, miserly bastard," and it was originally simply a derogatory term for a dishonest person who grew wealthy trading grain. But after the revolution of 1917, Bolshevik authorities appropriated the insult for […]