By BBC news Tens of thousands of civilians are still missing after being detained arbitrarily during 10 years of civil war in Syria, UN investigators…
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By The BBC The Dutch government has stepped down after thousands of families were wrongly accused of child welfare fraud and told to pay money back.…
By BBC News Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has said his government will not buy a Chinese-made Covid-19 vaccine, a day after his health minister said…
US authorities say the pilot of a helicopter fighting fires in California has died after his aircraft crashed. The pilot was the only person on…
By Julie Yoonnyung Lee Digital technology has helped South Koreans cope with the pandemic. But the elderly have been left behind in the new contact-free…
A number of Beirut port officials are being placed under house arrest pending an investigation into Tuesday’s huge explosion, Lebanon’s government says. The blast…
A number of Beirut port officials are being placed under house arrest pending an investigation into Tuesday’s huge explosion, Lebanon’s government says. The blast…
Bells have tolled in Hiroshima, Japan, to mark the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the world’s first atomic bomb. But memorial events were scaled…
A man in eastern China has been acquitted of murder and freed after spending 27 years in prison. Zhang Yuhuan maintained he was tortured by…