Canada’s opposition Liberal Party is heading for a big victory in general elections, ending nine years of Conservative rule, early results show. The Liberals, led by Justin Trudeau, are leading in 191 electoral districts. The son of late Prime Minister…
The Balkans struggled with a growing backlog of migrants on Monday as thousands of people waited on cold, wet borders after Hungary closed its southern frontier and diverted them to Slovenia.Slovenia imposed a daily limit of 2,500, forcing fellow European…
Seven hikers were killed and two others suffered severe burns when a wildfire broke out on a mountain on Indonesia’s main island of Java, an official said Monday. The group was climbing on Mount Lawu when the accident took place…
A powerful typhoon is battering the northern Philippines, with at least one person dead, several missing and thousands forced to flee their homes.Typhoon Koppu made landfall near the town of Casiguran on the island of Luzon on Sunday morning, bringing…
Five people have been killed and nine wounded in an attack on a Shia gathering hall in eastern Saudi Arabia, the interior ministry says. The killings, in Saihat in Eastern Province on Friday, come two days after the start of…
EU states have approve an action plan for Turkey that it is hoped will ease the flow of migrants to Europe.Nearly 600,000 migrants have reached the EU by sea so far this year, many of them travelling from Turkey to…
Kurdish forces have carried out a wave of forced displacement and mass house demolitions – amounting to war crimes – in northern Syria, a rights group says.A report by Amnesty International accuses the Popular Protection Units (YPG) of razing entire…
British police on Monday removed a round-the-clock guard from outside the Ecuadorean Embassy hideout of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, saying it wasn’t “proportionate” to keep up the operation when no end to the three-year stalemate is in sight.
Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM and the Ministry of Hydrocarbon and Energy of Bolivia signed a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation for the peaceful uses of atomic energy.
Eight senior figures from Islamic State were killed in an air strike while meeting in a town in western Iraq, but the group’s reclusive leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi did not appear to be among them, residents of the town and…
The UN climate negotiations are heading for failure and need a major redesign if they are to succeed, scientists say. The pledges that individual countries are offering ahead of the Paris climate summit in December are too entrenched in self…
US Department of Defence to make “condolence payments” to families of victims of US air strike on Afghan hospital. The Pentagon is to make “condolence payments” to families of victims of a US air strike that mistakenly hit a Doctors…
Two explosions at a peace rally in the Turkish capital Ankara have killed at least 96 people and wounding 200, the country’s health minister said. TV footage shows scenes of panic and people lying on the ground covered in blood,…
Fresh violence between Palestinians and Israelis has seen six Palestinians shot dead in Gaza, reports say, and a fresh spate of stabbings. Israel said its troops fired over the Gaza border after coming under attack. Earlier, police said there had…
IACCM announced the 2015 Global Innovation Awards Winners during the annual Americas Forum in Nevada.
By Alexander Kan Svetlana Alexievich – this year’s Nobel laureate for literature – says her approach is to let “human voices speak for themselves”. She first came to prominence in 1985 when, as a 23-year-old journalist in the Soviet Union,…
Four Russian cruise missiles fired at Syria from the Caspian Sea landed in Iran, unnamed US officials say. It was unclear whether the missiles caused any damage, they said. On Wednesday, Russia said it had fired 26 missiles at 11…
Iraq may request Russian air strikes against Islamic State on its soil soon and wants Moscow to have a bigger role than the United States in the war against the militant group, the head of Parliament’s defence and security committee…
Russia’s growing military involvement in the Syria conflict is expected to be high on the agenda as Nato defence ministers meet in Brussels. It comes after Nato member Turkey complained that Russian jets had repeatedly violated its airspace. Ministers are…
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded for discoveries in DNA repair. Tomas Lindahl and Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar were named as the winners on Wednesday morning at a news conference in Stockholm, Sweden. Their work uncovered…
Russia says it has launched rocket strikes on Islamic State group targets in Syria from warships in the Caspian Sea – about 1,500km (930 miles) away. Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said four warships fired 26 sea-based cruise missiles on 11…
Russia’s violation of Turkish airspace over the weekend “does not look like an accident”, Nato has said. Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Russia had not provided “any real explanation” of the violation, which “lasted for a long time.” Russia says Saturday’s…
The US commander of international forces in Afghanistan has said an air strike on a hospital in the northern city of Kunduz was a mistake. Gen John Campbell said that the US would never intentionally target a protected medical facility.…
US authorities charged a former president of the United Nations General Assembly, a billionaire Macau real estate developer and four others on Tuesday for engaging in a wide-ranging corruption scheme.John Ashe, a former UN ambassador from Antigua and Barbuda who…
Russia is escalating Syria’s civil war by targeting the moderate opposition, US Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Monday, comparing Moscow’s effort to bolster Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to tethering itself to a sinking ship. “By taking military action in…
The Australian government’s focus on national security and the war on terror to tackle Islamic extremism, rather than social cohesion and inclusion, has helped create an environment for radicalised Muslim youth to emerge in disproportionate numbers, experts say.Authorities in Australia…
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said a coalition between Syria, Russia, Iran and Iraq must succeed “or else the whole region will be destroyed”. Mr Assad also criticised the US-led coalition and its air strikes in Syria and Iraq as…
Air strikes on a hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz that killed 19 people were “tragic, inexcusable and possibly even criminal”, the UN human rights chief says. High Commissioner Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein urged a full and transparent investigation…
Australian police said on Saturday they believed the shooting of a police worker by a 15-year-old boy in Sydney the previous day was “linked to terrorism”, the latest in a series of attacks blamed on radicalized youth. Australia, a staunch…
Hundreds of Iranian troops have arrived in Syria to join a major ground offensive in support of President Bashar al-Assad’s government, Lebanese sources said on Thursday, a sign the civil war is turning still more regional and global in scope.…