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Quake-hit Nepal reopens damaged heritage sites for tourists
Nepal on Monday reopened most of the cultural heritage sites that were damaged in a pair of devastating earthquakes, hoping to lure ...World leaders accused of shameful failure over refugee crisis
Rights group Amnesty International on Monday slammed world leaders for "condemning millions of refugees to an unbearable existence" and demanded they work ...Swedish prosecutors plan to question Assange in June or July
Swedish prosecutors plan to question WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at Ecuador\'s embassy in London in June or July, the prosecutor said on ...Algerian jihadist Mokhtar Belmokhtar killed in US air strike
A veteran Islamist militant blamed for masterminding an Algerian gasfield attack and running smuggling routes across North Africa, has been killed in ...Child sacrifice for wealth and power in Uganda
Kanani and Sylvia, brother and sister aged nine and eight, were grazing the family cattle in rural Uganda when they were approached ...Thousands rally as Hong Kong braces for democracy showdown
Hong Kong is gearing up for a vote this week on a contentious electoral reform package backed by Beijing, with a weekend ...China to remove visa requirements for Taiwanese
China will lift a visa requirement for Taiwanese travelling to the mainland, state media reported Sunday, part of a wider plan to ...Why the bear is back in Vietnam
Russia-Vietnam ties that seemed to be cooling after the end of the Cold War are warming up all over again. More than ...Italy warns EU over migrant redistribution proposal
Italy warned retaliation Sunday against the European Union if governments don\'t make good on proposals to take in more asylum-seekers as migrants ...Thousands flee as Syria Kurds advance on IS-held border town
Kurdish-led militia fought Islamic State near a Syrian town at the Turkish border on Sunday, a monitor and a Kurdish official said, ...