Japan disasters highlight vulnerable infrastructure
AFP | Flooded runways, thousands of passengers stranded and a tanker smashing into an access bridge: last week's typhoon in Japan highlighted the vulnerability of...
Firebrand Malema fights for land revolution in S. Africa
AFP | The leader of South Africa's radical opposition EFF party has vowed that his supporters will increasingly seize unoccupied land to put pressure on...
North Korea holds 70th anniversary parade, without ICBMs
AFP | North Korea refrained from displaying its intercontinental missiles in a massive military parade through Pyongyang celebrating its 70th birthday Sunday -- a conspicuous...
‘We won’: A divisive activist’s role in remaking Ethiopia
AFP | Jawar Mohammed was once so hated by the Ethiopian state that the media activist was accused of coup plotting while viewers of his...
Cruel yet popular punishment: Japan’s death penalty
AFP | Years waiting on death row, inmates told their fate just hours before their execution, and guards paid $180 to do an "unbearable" job...
Afghan teen to appear in court for Amsterdam station attack
AFP | A 19-year-old Afghan man who was shot and wounded by Dutch police after allegedly attacking bystanders at Amsterdam's Central Station will briefly appear...
Australian Catholics vow to end child abuse ‘cover-ups’
AFP | Australian Catholic leaders vowed Friday that the church's "shameful" history of child abuse and cover-ups will never be repeated, but rejected a national...
Trump says China making things ‘much more difficult’ with N. Korea
AFP | US President Donald Trump on Wednesday accused China of complicating Washington's relationship with North Korea by rendering its ally economic assistance, as talks...
Rohingya mark ‘black day’ one year after Myanmar violence
AFP | Rohingya refugees Saturday marked the anniversary of a deadly military crackdown in their Myanmar homeland that drove 700,000 of the persecuted minority into...
South Korean families gather on eve of rare reunion
AFP | Dozens of elderly and frail South Koreans gathered excitedly Sunday on the eve of their first meeting for nearly seven decades with family...
Never said goodbye: seven decades of separation in Korea
AFP | When Kim Kwang-ho fled advancing North Korean forces he expected to return home within days, so did not bother with a proper goodbye...
Indonesia quake toll jumps to 164, survivors wait for aid
AFP | The devastating earthquake on the Indonesian island of Lombok was "exceptionally destructive" and wiped out entire villages in the worst-hit regions, relief agencies...