Booker Prize winner Evaristo hopes to build ties with African and British readers
Author Bernardine Evaristo hopes her Booker Prize-winning novel will help to alter perceptions of black British people among African readers and Britons she sees as...
Iran was informed of IS leader Baghdadi’s death – Iranian officials tell Reuters
Iran was informed by sources in Syria that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed, two Iranian officials told Reuters on Sunday....
Australian serial killer Milat dies in prison nearly 30 years after backpacker murders
Ivan Milat, one of Australia’s worst convicted serial killers, has died in prison after spending 23 years behind bars for the murders of seven backpackers...
Beijing’s new $63 billion mega-airport begins international flights
Beijing’s new $63 billion Daxing airport began its first scheduled international flights on Sunday as it ramped up operations to help relieve pressure on the...
Honduran inmate who linked president’s brother to drug deals killed
An alleged drug dealer with knowledge of drug shipments involving a brother of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez convicted this month for drug trafficking, was...
Thousands ordered to flee California wine country blaze
California firefighters raced against time on Saturday as they cut defensive lines against a wildfire in Sonoma County’s famed wine country and authorities ordered 50,000...
North Korea tells U.S. not to ignore year-end deadline on Trump-Kim friendship: KCNA
North Korea said there has been no progress in the North Korea-United States relation, and hostilities that could lead to an exchange of fire have...
Iraqi parliamentary bloc backed by influential Shi’ite cleric Sadr to go into Iraq’s opposition
A parliamentary bloc backed by populist Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said on Saturday that it will go into Iraq’s political opposition....
Ten killed, dozens wounded as Iraq protests flare again
At least 10 Iraqis were killed and dozens wounded on Saturday, police and hospital sources said, as demonstrators and security forces clashed in a second...
Four Burundian journalists charged with undermining state security
Four Burundian journalists arrested this week were charged on Saturday with undermining state security, an editor at their newspaper tweeted, as Burundi’s government clamps down...