Hurricane Maria pummels small Caribbean island of Dominica as Category 5 storm
Hurricane Maria, the second Category 5 storm to hit the Caribbean this month, plowed into the small island nation of Dominica on Monday with roof-ripping fury on a collision course…
Indonesian police detain 22 over violent anti-communist protest
Indonesian authorities have detained 22 people after a violent mob clashed with police at an anti-communist protest in the capital Jakarta. President Joko Widodo’s government has tried to redress a…
US Ambassador Haley: UN has exhausted options on North Korea
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley says the UN Security Council has run out of options on containing North Korea’s nuclear program and the United States may have…
Britain’s Boris Johnson accused of Brexit “backseat driving”
Britain’s foreign minister Boris Johnson has been accused by cabinet colleagues of “backseat driving” on Brexit after setting out his own vision of the country’s future outside the European Union.…
British police arrest second man over London train bomb
British police have arrested a second man over the bombing of a London commuter train on Friday that injured 30 people and the security services have lowered the threat level…
UN provides Cuba with food aid after Irma rips up coast
The United Nations’ World Food Program has said its launching a $US5.7 million operation in Cuba to help feed nearly 700,000 people in areas most affected by Hurricane Irma. The…
Singaporeans protest against uncontested presidential election
Hundreds of Singaporeans, most dressed in black, held a silentprotest on Saturday against an uncontested presidential election this week in which applications from four candidates were rejected. Political protests are…
British police arrest man in hunt for London bombers
British police have arrested an 18-year-old man in the southern port of Dover in a “significant” development in the hunt for the people behind a London commuter train bombing that…
Typhoon tears across Vietnam, skirting key coffee region
A typhoon tore a destructive path across central Vietnam on Friday, flooding hundreds of thousands of homes, whipping off roofs and knocking out power in the country’s most powerful storm…
N.Korea fires another missile over Japan, deepening regional tensions
North Korea has fired a missile that flew over Japan’s northern Hokkaido far out into the Pacific Ocean, South Korean and Japanese officials said, deepening tensions after Pyongyang’s recent test of…
