Polls show main opposition leader Lee Jae-myung is the favourite to succeed Yun Seok-yeol, who was ousted for declaring martial law. South Korea said on Tuesday it would hold snap elections on June 3 to choose a successor to former…
A conversation between pilots and air traffic controllers, partially released in a transcript, could provide clues to the cause of the crash in South Korea that killed 179 people. The pilots of Jeju Air Flight 2216 signaled three different landing…
Princess Habiba Sarip-Paudak becomes first Muslim woman to work in state broadcaster’s office While working as a news anchor on PTV, she also became an anchor for Salaam TV and Salaam Radio. MANILA: When Princess Habiba Sarip-Paudak first appeared on…
The Trump administration’s cancellation of all visas for South Sudanese citizens comes amid the threat of renewed war in the East African country. The Trump administration’s decision over the weekend to cancel visas for all South Sudanese passport holders has…
The consequences of mother-to-child transmission of the virus could be enormous, a new study suggests. But the US has fired experts working to solve the problem. The Trump administration has fired the few remaining health officials who oversaw care for…
With the Off-Broadway debut of his play “Marshlanders” in 1958, the Nigerian Nobel laureate looks back at the writer he was at the beginning of his career. We all live in a grueling world, and Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka is…
Efforts to find survivors after a devastating earthquake struck Myanmar on March 28 are winding down. Rescue efforts have been replaced by intensified relief and recovery efforts, and the death toll from the disaster has exceeded 3,600 and continues to…
The request for proposals for new detention facilities and other services will allow the government to expedite the contracting process and quickly expand detention capacity. Listen to this article · 8:11 min Learn more Share the full article CoreCivic has…
The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), signed in 1968, has held back the global arms race for decades. Its basic formula is that the five official nuclear powers (the US, Russia, China, France, the UK) guarantee the…
Israeli military officials, confronted with video evidence that contradicts their initial account, now say they were “wrong.” The Israeli military has acknowledged flaws in its initial accounts of its troops’ involvement in the killing last month of 15 people in…