Haiti's Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant resigned Saturday amid violent and deadly protests sparked by a proposed plan to raise fuel prices, according to President Jovenel Moise. Lafontant resigned before Parliament, which was due to host a vote of no confidence, Yves Germain

After an intense flare up between Israel and Gaza militant groups over the weekend, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that his country would not agree to any ceasefire that does not include a definitive end to the launching of incendiary kites and balloons across the border.

A massive landslide killed at least 15 people with 45 others injured in Hpakant mining region in Myanmar's northern Kachin state, the information ministry said on Sunday (July 15). The landslide occurred due to the collapse of pit wall of a disused jade mining site owned by Mahar

A US woman whose vehicle plunged off a cliff in California has been found alive a week after she was reported missing. Angela Hernandez, 23, survived by drinking water from the radiator of her wrecked jeep, police said. She was found by hikers on Friday after they saw her vehicle

DHAKA: Indian police have arrested a training instructor in the southern state of Tamil Nadu after a 19-year-old college student died in a safety exercise. Police said N Logeshwari died after she was forced to jump off a building into a safety net held by fellow students. They say the

The Justice Department announced indictments against 12 Russian nationals as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, accusing them of engaging in a "sustained effort" to hack Democrats' emails and computer networks.

Heavy rain continues in most parts of China on Friday, causing floods and traffic disruptions, forcing people to evacuate and tourist attractions to close. The second flood peak of the Yangtze River this year has formed in its upper reaches, with severe flooding occurring in many

The deadliest attacks in Pakistan’s troubled election campaign killed at least 132 people, including a candidate, on Friday just before the arrest of disgraced former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif upon his return to the country. In the southwestern province of Baluchistan, a suicide

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam have been taken into custody on arrival in the eastern city of Lahore, party officials said. The Sharifs arrived in Pakistan's second city from the UK on Friday evening, submitting themselves for arrest after they

Former Pakistan cricketer and current chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party Imran Khan is facing controversies due to shocking allegations being made by her former wife. Reham Khan has alleged in her book that her ex-husband Imran Khan has five illegitimate children, of whom some are

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam, sentenced to jail for corruption, are likely to be arrested at the Lahore airport, reports said hours before their arrival on Friday evening.  Over 10,000 police officers have been posted in Lahore for what is

A Missouri jury on Thursday ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay a record $4.69 billion to 22 women who alleged the company’s talc-based products, including its baby powder, contain asbestos and caused them to develop ovarian cancer.  The verdict is the largest J&J has faced to date

A blast in an industrial park in southwestern China has killed 19 people and injured 12 others, the country's official Xinhua News Agency said Friday. The blast occurred at the Yibin Hengda Technology Co., a chemical plant in an industrial park in the city of Yibin in Sichuan

At least 23 soldiers were killed and 13 wounded in clashes in Afghanistan's northern province of Kunduz Wednesday night, a local official said Thursday (July 12). "Taliban militants stormed joint security checkpoints in Qarluq locality of Archi district at midnight. The clashes

Malala Yousafzai criticizes Trump’s zero tolerance policy to separate illegal immigrants from their families. Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Peace Prize laureate The Nobel Peace Prize laureate depicted as a policy propelled by US President Donald Trump as ‘pitiless’, which isolates

President Donald Trump on Wednesday accused fellow NATO ally Germany of being beholden to Russia because it buys energy from Moscow, in pointed remarks ahead of a summit of the military alliance in Brussels. "Germany is a captive of Russia," Trump said at a meeting with NATO Secretary

World Population Day is being observed across the globe on Wednesday (July 11).  July 11 was established as World Population Day in 1989 by the United Nations and since then it has been celebrated on this date every year. The United Nations recognises World Population day as an

The US is placing visa restrictions on Myanmar (also known as Burma) and Laos for failing to accept their nationals when the US seeks to deport them. "Burma and Laos have denied or unreasonably delayed accepting their nationals ordered removed from the United States," the Department of

A suicide bomb attack at an election rally in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar has killed at least 14 people, including prominent local politician Haroon Bilour, police said. The attack on Tuesday at a campaign event organised by the Awami National Party (ANP) also wounded

DHAKA: US President Donald Trump has nominated Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court, setting the stage for a bruising confirmation battle. In a primetime announcement at the White House, Trump praised his pick as a "brilliant jurist". The nominee, a District of Columbia appeals