Category: Int’l relations

The execution of the once-powerful uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has rekindled fears of instability in the secretive nuclear-armed state.

South Africans have been warned not to attempt to go to see Nelson Mandela’s body in the capital, Pretoria, unless they are already in the queue.

The ACT parliament passed a bill in October making the territory the first part of Australia to legalise same-sex weddings.

Former Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has been formally charged with murder in connection with a crackdown on demonstrators in 2010.

India’s top court has upheld a law which criminalises gay sex, in a ruling seen as a major blow to gay rights.

A fire in a farmers’ fruit market in south China’s Shenzhen has killed at least 16 people and injured at least three, officials say.

Tens of thousands of South Africans have joined dozens of world leaders for the national memorial service for former President Nelson Mandela.

Two French soldiers have been killed in combat in the Central African Republic, the French presidency says.

Nelson Mandela’s daughter Makaziwe has told the BBC about the “wonderful” final hours of the former president, who died aged 95 last Thursday.

North Korea has broadcast images of the once powerful uncle of leader Kim Jong-un being removed from a meeting, confirming reports of his dismissal.

South Korea has announced it is expanding its air defence zone, which will now partially overlap with a similar zone announced by China.

Thailand’s opposition MPs are to resign en masse, officials say, after weeks of anti-government protests in Bangkok.

Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison because of his opposition to the apartheid regime.

Ministers from 159 countries have reached a deal intended to boost global trade at a meeting in Bali, Indonesia.