Last-minute theatrics failed to save former Prime Minister Najib Razak from the lockup Tuesday as Malaysia’s highest court upheld his conviction in a 1MDB-related case and sent him to Kajang prison on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur to serve his 12-year sentence for corruption
Hail and heavy rain caused the deaths of at least 31 people in Tibetan-populated counties in northwestern China’s Qinghai and Gansu provinces, Tibetan sources said. More than 2,000 heads of livestock were also killed in the storms
Following the Security Council meeting on Sudan and South Sudan, Enrique Ochoa, the Political Coordinator for Mexico’s Permanent Mission to the UN,and other Security Council members hold a press conference
The conflict in Ukraine is highly dependent on unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones. It can be challenging, though, to keep them in the air.One Ukrainian company is doing just that and more
Due to cultural pressures to stay at home to raise their family as well as a lack of educational options in the Israeli-annexed Palestinian sector of East Jerusalem, more than three-quarters of Palestinian women there are unemployed. Hebrew is not a language that many Palestinian women can use professionally. They are now being turned to beekeepers through a new scheme, which includes hives on their rooftops
Public schools across the Philippines reopened for in-person classes for the first time in more than two years Monday after President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ruled out more economically crippling lockdowns amid the COVID-19 pandemic
Pro-democracy media magnate Jimmy Lai will plead not guilty to ‘colluding with foreign forces’ under Hong Kong’s draconian national security law, court documents revealed on Monday, as a U.S.-based rights group called on the government to drop charges against 47 former lawmakers and activists for “subversion.”
Speaking on “Maintenance of International Peace and Security: Promote Common Security Through Dialogue and Cooperation,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the Security Council
Over a month after the controversial Supreme Court decision that struck down a New York gun safety law requiring a licence to carry concealed guns in public, the debate is still going on
Former Kenyan prime minister Raila Odinga is challenging the validity of the results of a closely contested election in which William Ruto was declared the winner. Political and legal experts comment on Odinga’s allegations of voter fraud as the matter moves to Kenya’s Supreme Court