Under a new law in Texas each public university will now have to allow concealed weapons. Private universities are exempt from the law.
The new “campus carry” law in Texas, which went into…
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Under a new law in Texas each public university will now have to allow concealed weapons. Private universities are exempt from the law.
The new “campus carry” law in Texas, which went into…
Large areas of southern China are on emergency alert as a powerful typhoon batters the region. Typhoon Nida hit Hong Kong on Tuesday with high winds and torrential rain, forcing schools,…
The mother of a Thai student activist was indicted by a Thai military court on royal defamation charges. She had sent a one-word Facebook message.
Patnaree Chankij allegedly insulted the…
Nigeria’s Army killed 349 people from the minority Shia Muslim sect last December in a series of clashes for which troops involved should be prosecuted, a judicial inquiry has concluded in a…
Militants in Syria shot down a Russian combat helicopter on Monday amid fierce fighting around Aleppo, killing all five people on board in the deadliest single incident for the Russian military…
Europe must not let itself be blackmailed by Turkey in talks about visa-free travel for Turkish citizens in the EU, German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel has said.
US planes targeted the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group in Libya on Monday, responding to the UN-backed government’s request to help push the militants from their former stronghold of…
Republican candidate Donald Trump has called Democratic rival Hillary Clinton “the devil”, in the face of continuing fire from within his own party.
Speaking at a rally in a high school gym…
A naturalized US citizen has betrayed the US by acting as a foreign agent, a justice department official said. The double agent passed on sensitive information, including surveillance technology…
A world-leading air crash investigator has said he believes flight MH370 was deliberately flown into the sea. Larry Vance also told Australian news program 60 Minutes that erosion along…
With the Summer Olympics just days away, thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets of Brazil on Sunday.
Some are calling for the ouster of suspended president, Dilma Rousseff,…
The mother of a dead US Muslim soldier has hit back at presidential hopeful Donald Trump for questioning her silence during a speech by her husband.
Ghazala Khan said Trump was ignorant…
Turkish special forces captured 11 fugitive commandos who were involved in a bid to seize President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a failed coup attempt last month.
The 11 soldiers were part…
Pope Francis on Sunday said he won’t label Islam as “terrorist” because that would be unfair and not true.
Reporters aboard the papal plane flying him home after a pilgrimage to Poland, the…
The Taliban claimed a truck bomb attack on a military and logistics services compound, mainly used by foreigners, in Kabul early on Monday after a powerful explosion was heard all around the city…
Two men have been placed under formal investigation over the murder of a priest in a Normandy church, including a cousin of one of the killers. Farid K, 30, a cousin of attacker Abdel Malik…
Voters in the Japanese capital elected their first woman governor on Sunday, after two predecessors stepped down over scandals that clouded the city’s preparations to host the 2020 summer Olympic…
Fighters in Sana’a have dismissed a UN proposal to end fighting in their country. The plan, which had been accepted by the ousted government, was no more than a “media stunt”, they said.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Joachim Gauck joined mourners for a multi-faith service at Munich’s Frauenkirche Cathedral on Sunday, just over a week after a teenage gunman shot…
Dozens of Syrian civilians have started exiting militant-held areas of Aleppo to government territory through safe corridors. The crossings were the first major movement of people after Russia…
Militants set off two car bombs outside a police base in Somalia’s capital before gunmen stormed inside on Sunday, leaving at least 10 people dead, police said.
US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Russian intelligence services hacked into Democratic National Committee computers and she accused Republican contender Donald Trump of…
Tunisia’s Parliament passed a vote of no confidence against Prime Minister Habib Essid on Saturday, effectively disbanding the government of the US-trained agricultural economist.
The no-…
A hot air balloon caught fire and crashed in the US state of Texas, with all 16 on board confirmed dead, the Texas department of safety says.
Talks aimed at ending Yemen’s war, which had appeared on the brink of collapse after a major disagreement between the ousted government and Houthi militia fighters, have been extended by a week,…
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