270 bodies recovered from Sierra Leone mudslide — mayor
FREETOWN -- Rescue workers have recovered 270 bodies so far from a mudslide in the outskirts of Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown and the search...
Asian neighbors protest as Abe sends offering to war dead shrine
TOKYO -- China and South Korea called on Japan to face up to its wartime past after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent an offering...
Murder suspect in Charlottesville violence faces court hearing
CHARLOTTESVILLE -- A man said to have harbored Nazi sympathies as a teenager before a failed bid to join the US Army was due...
17 dead in Burkina Faso bistro ‘terrorist attack’
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO -- Seventeen people have been killed and eight injured in a “terrorist attack” on a restaurant in Burkina Faso’s capital, the...
Korea tensions ease as US plays down war risks
SEOUL/BEIJING -- Tensions on the Korean peninsula eased slightly on Monday as South Korea’s president said resolving Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions must be done peacefully...
Britain’s Big Ben to fall silent for four years
LONDON -- Britain’s much-loved Big Ben will fall silent for four years from next week as conservation work is carried out on the famous...
China bans North Korean iron, seafood imports
BEIJING -- China will halt iron, iron ore and seafood imports from North Korea starting Tuesday, following through on new UN sanctions after US...
Trump under fire after remarks on far-right rally
CHARLOTTESVILLE -- A white nationalist rally erupted into deadly violence Saturday as a car plowed into a crowd while demonstrators and counter-protesters clashed, as...
Top US General jets into Asia as N. Korea tensions run high
TOKYO/SEOUL -- General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, will meet with President Moon Jae-in in Seoul on Monday amid...
Kim and Trump: A tale of two leaders
SEOUL -- In many ways the two leaders on either side of North Korea-United States missile stand-off could not be more different. In others...
Indonesia quake
AN EARTHQUAKE of magnitude 6.5 struck west of Indonesia’s island of Sumatra on Sunday, the United States Geological Survey said.
There were no immediate reports...
Oil spill off Kuwait
KUWAIT CITY -- Emergency workers are battling to contain an oil spill near a joint Kuwaiti-Saudi oil field in the Gulf, an official said...