A hundred drug addicts have reportedly escaped a compulsory rehab centre in the southern Vietnamese province of Long An. The break out on Sunday afternoon is the latest in a number of breakouts…
NEW YORK – New York City and its largest police union settled on a tentative five-year labor contract on Tuesday that includes salary increases while also agreeing that all patrol…
SYDNEY – The United States will apply “extreme vetting” to up to 1,250 asylum seekers it has agreed to resettle as part of an agreement with Australia, a spokesman for…
MELBOURNE – Car manufacturer Toyota has officially announced that it will close its Altona plant in Melbourne’s west in October, with the loss of more than 2,500 jobs. Following 53…
WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump has fired top federal government lawyer Sally Yates after she took the extraordinarily rare step of defying the White House and refused to defend new…
LONDON – Prime Minister Theresa May’s plan to leave the European Union is expected to survive weeks of intense parliamentary scrutiny, despite pro-EU lawmakers’ attempts to force the government to…
Germany has begun sending tanks and other equipment to Lithuania as part of a NATO mission to beef up the defence of eastern Europe and send a signal of resolve…
Japan must make public places in Tokyo smoke-free by the time it hosts the 2020 Summer Olympics or risk falling afoul of International Olympic Committee (IOC) rules that call for…
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on cyber security on Tuesday (local time), two sources familiar with the situation said, marking the first action…
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Infested with vermin, furnished with dirty carpets, broken beds and rotten sofas – some of the accommodation Britain provides to asylum seekers is a “disgrace”,…