MANILA AFP - The death toll from a storm that unleashed landslides and floods across the southern Philippines has climbed to 240 with scores of others still missing, officials said Monday.   

The president of Guatemala says the Central American country will move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.  

Catalonia’s separatists look set to regain power in the wealthy Spanish region after local elections on Thursday, deepening the nation’s political crisis in a sharp rebuke to Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and European Union leaders who bac

REUTERS, 22nd DECEMBER, 2017-The United Nations Security Council is due to vote on Friday on a U.S.-drafted resolution that seeks to toughen sanctions on North Korea in response to its latest intercontinental ballistic missile launch, diplomats said.

DPA, 22nd DECEMBER, 2017-Police have seized a record 1.2 tonnes of methamphetamine off the coast of Western Australia worth more than 1 billion Australian dollars (772 million US dollars), police announced Friday.

Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski pulled off a surprise victory against the opposition’s bid to force him from power as a graft scandal rocks Latin America, with a motion in Congress falling eight votes short of the 87 needed to oust him

REUTERS, 22nd DECEMBER, 2017-More than 120 countries defied President Donald Trump on Thursday and voted in favor of a United Nations General Assembly resolution calling for the United States to drop its recent recognition of Jerusalem as Israel&rsqu

President Trump suggested Wednesday that billions of dollars in U.S. foreign aid could hinge on how countries vote on a U.N. resolution condemning his decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move the U.S. Embassy there. &nb

GENEVA AFP Dec20, 2017   -The UN’s rights envoy for Myanmar said Wednesday the government had banned her from the country, adding her exclusion suggests something “awful” is happening in Rakhine state.  

Food security in the Middle East and North Africa is quickly deteriorating because of conflict in several countries in the region, the United Nations said on Thursday.

 (Daily Mail), 21 December 2017 -  Sylvester Stallone is being investigated by police for a rape he’s accused of committing in 1990.  

Melbourne, (Daily Mail), 21 December 2017 -More than a dozen pedestrians, including a toddler, have been injured with two fighting for life in hospital after a car ‘deliberately’ ploughed into rush hour crowds in the heart of Melbourne.&n

Republican leaders in Congress have been left with egg on their faces after the final approval of a key tax measure was delayed by a procedural gaffe - denying US President Donald Trump his first major legislative victory until at least Wednesday.&nb

REUTERS, 20th DECEMBER, 2017-The European Union wants a transition period after Brexit to end no later than the last day of 2020, according to the European Commission’s negotiating directives agreed on Wednesday.

REUTERS, 20th DECEMBER, 2017-Turkey’s prime minister on Wednesday dubbed the killing of minority Muslim Rohingyas in Myanmar by its security forces “genocide” and urged the international community to ensure their safety back home.

The 193-member United Nations General Assembly will hold a rare emergency special session on Thursday at the request of Arab and Muslim states on U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, sparking

REUTERS, 320th DECEMBER, 2017- Saudi air defenses shot down a ballistic missile fired by Yemen’s Houthi group towards Riyadh on Tuesday, the Saudi-led coalition said, in an attack that could escalate a proxy war between the kingdom and Iran.

It is the largest and most powerful warship ever built by the UK... and it’s leaking.   Launched just weeks ago, the Royal Navy’s new £3.1billion aircraft carrier has a ‘significant’ defect – and could co

DPA, 19th DECEMBER, 2017 -  Bangladesh and Myanmar have formed a panel of officials to jointly oversee the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled to Bangladesh in recent months, officials said on Tuesday.

THE HINDU, 19th DECEMBER, 2017- Saudi Arabia on Tuesday said it shot down a ballistic missile over Riyadh fired from Yemen by Iran-backed Houthi rebels who announced that the target was the official residence of King Salman.

NEW DELHI AFP Dec18, 2017 - India’s ruling party Monday celebrated victory in two state elections, but saw its majority dip in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s stronghold of Gujarat, where the charismatic leader campaigned aggressively in a

REUTERS, 19th DECEMBER, 2017- France and the United States are determined to “vigorously” raise pressure on Iran over its ballistic missile programme, including possibly through sanctions, Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said during a

Beijing, (Reuters/HT), Dec 17, 2017 -  China announced on Sunday a five-year plan to convert northern Chinese cities to clean heating during the winter through 2021, state media reported, amid a deepening heating crisis.  

Muslims may lose Mecca and other holy sites if the US decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israeli capital isn’t reversed, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned   

Democrat Doug Jones won a bitter fight for a U.S. Senate seat in deeply conservative Alabama on Tuesday, dealing a political blow to President Donald Trump in a race marked by sexual misconduct accusations against Republican candidate Roy Moore.

DPA, 13th DECEMBER, 2017- One of Europe’s biggest gas distribution hubs resumed operations in Austria late Tuesday, after an explosion at the site killed one worker and disrupted the continent’s gas supply system.

REUTERS, 13th DECEMBER, 2017-  Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi has sacked four ministers, including those with the foreign affairs and energy portfolios, his office said in a statement late on Tuesday.

ISTANBUL AFP Dec13, 2017  - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday chairs an emergency summit of the world’s main pan-Islamic body, seeking to marshal Muslim leaders towards a coordinated response to the US recognition of Jeru

REUTERS, 13th DECEMBER, 2017- Less than an hour after U.S. President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Palestinians protested by turning off the lights on the Christmas tree outside Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity,

Donald Trump will come to Britain next year despite anger over his far-right retweets, the US ambassador to London said today.