Category: 4. World

Hundreds of miles from China’s populous coastline, a sharp bend in a remote Himalayan river is set to become the centerpiece of one of the country’s most ambitious – and controversial – infrastructure…

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Japan risks being without a giant panda on its shores for the first time in more than half a century, as a diplomatic row…

For years, European officials have known exactly what reforms are necessary to strengthen the European Union’s economic foundations and enable it to act as a global power. But they have also conceded that political realities within member…

Finland’s delegate to last month’s Miss Universe pageant held in Thailand has sparked controversy and outrage after a photo of her pulling the corners of her eyes went viral.

Sarah Dzafce, who has been stripped of her Miss Finland crown, uploaded…

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The guilty verdict handed down this week to Hong Kong media tycoon and democracy advocate Jimmy Lai was expected but is still devastating, his daughter Claire…

US President Donald Trump said he is ordering a blockade of all “sanctioned oil tankers” going into and a out of Venezuela, in a move that seemed designed to furhter target the South American country’s economy and ramp up pressure on its leader Nicolás Maduro.

Trump’s escalation comes…

President Donald Trump has expanded a US travel ban, barring nationals of five additional countries and people travelling on Palestinian Authority-issued documents from entering the US.

The White House said the restrictions were intended “to…

Mourners gathered in Sydney on Wednesday as the first funerals began for some of the 15 people killed in Australia’s worst mass shooting in almost three decades.

There were emotional…

For generations, two centres of gravity in New Zealand’s central Ruapehu region had enough pull to entice people to the area and keep them there: the mountains and the mills.

Mount Ruapehu, the country’s largest active volcano, lured people to…