Pirates kidnap eight crew members in raid on German ship off Cameroon
Pirates have kidnapped eight crew members of a German-owned ship in a raid on the vessel off the coast of Cameroon, the Hamburg-based company that...
Libya reopens southern airport closed since 2014
Libya reopened on Friday its airport in the main southern city of Sebha which had been closed since January 2014 due to security problems, residents...
U.S.’s North Korea envoy to visit Japan, South Korea next week
U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun will travel to Japan and South Korea next week to coordinate efforts to secure the denuclearization of...
Sick hospital workers often expose patients to contagious illness
Hospital workers often come to work with contagious respiratory illnesses, against the recommendations of public health regulators, a Canadian study suggests....
China says U.N. council members think India, Pakistan should refrain from unilateral action in Kashmir
U.N. Security Council members believe India and Pakistan should refrain from taking unilateral action over the disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir, China’s U.N. envoy...
Mexico to deport U.S. citizen suspected of supporting ‘violent jihad’
Mexican authorities arrested a U.S. citizen suspected of supporting militant Islamists in an example of Mexico’s security cooperation with the United States even as the...
Schools, telephone lines to reopen in Kashmir after lockdown
Authorities began restoring some telephone lines in Indian Kashmir on Friday night, the top state official said, as heavy security prevented some protests in the...
Argentina central bank faces peso test ahead of fraught election
Argentina’s central bank must toe a politically fraught line between providing support for the peso without blasting through the bank’s reserves, as policymakers seek to...
AbbVie prices new rheumatoid arthritis drug at $59,000/yr
AbbVie Inc has priced its new rheumatoid arthritis treatment at $59,000 a year after gaining U.S. approval on Friday, a big boost for the drugmaker...
UK’s Johnson to meet Macron, Merkel next week: Guardian
British leader Boris Johnson will travel to meet his French and German counterparts on Tuesday and Wednesday next week, in his first foreign engagements since...