Joe Biden has invited Taiwan to a virtual summit on democracy alongside more than 100 countries -- a move that sparked indignation from authoritarian China, which is not on the list.

The island country has been in the grips of a severe economic crisis, with a lack of foreign exchange triggering shortages of food, crude oil and other essential goods. On the weekend, authorities lifted a ban on pesticides and other farming goods,...

A Court in Versailles on Wednesday found France and Real Madrid forward Karim Benzema guilty of complicity in the attempted blackmail of former international team mate Mathieu Valbuena over a sex tape and sentenced him to a one-year suspended jail t...

The landmark Istanbul Convention came into force in 2014 and laid the way for a Europe-wide legal framework to tackle, prevent and prosecute violence against women. Turkey abruptly withdrew in March following a decree by President Recep Tayyip Erdo...

The delicate microclimate in the picturesque Istria peninsula's forests has long been famed for producing some of the finest white truffles, which this year fetched up to 2,500 euros ($2,860) per kilo. But the increase in temperatures and lower pre...

Adriana Elcira Rivas Gonzalez, now in her late 60s, faces seven charges of aggravated kidnapping carried out in the 1970s including the 1976 disappearance of senior Communist Party official Victor Manuel Diaz Lopez. She has been fighting extraditio...

Wissam Allami returned from Belarus to Iraq last week on a special repatriation flight organised by the Iraqi government in a bid to ease tensions at the Belarus-Poland border. After spending two months stranded at the border in desperate conditi...

Nearly 20,000 members of the stateless minority, who fled neighbouring Myanmar in 2017 after a brutal military crackdown, have already been sent to Bhashan Char island. Bangladesh eventually wants to rehouse 100,000 of its approximately one million...

The inside of the building, hidden on a quiet street in a wealthy suburb of Johannesburg, had been defaced by squatters. But after a floor-to-ceiling remodel, now sunlight floods in from generous skylights and bay windows. The white facade is all t...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based group that relies on sources on the ground, said the Israeli missiles struck an area near three villages in the west of Homs province. The raid killed four people, including two civilians, sa...

Star players Shakib Al Hasan and Tamim Iqbal are sidelined, added to a lack of confidence in the camp after losing eight straight Twenty20 internationals, meaning Pakistan will start as overwhelming favourites. The visitors completed a clean sweep ...

"My only crime was to defend myself against the man who raped me," Ruiz, 21, wrote from the prison where she has been held since May in a suburb next to Mexico City. Rights groups will use Thursday's International Day for the Elimination of Violenc...

Protesters in French overseas territories in the Caribbean opposing measures to limit the spread of Covid-19 clashed again with security forces on Tuesday as the Paris government vowed to restore order. French authorities have extended the curfew im...

The tourists resumed at 224-9 and added six runds after on a delayed start the hosts by 156 after the first innings. Overnight batsman Joshua da Silva tired to farm the strike before Praveen Jayawickrama struck to dismiss the West Indies' last ma...

International alarm mounted on Tuesday over the escalating war in Ethiopia as Tigrayan rebels claimed to be edging closer to the capital Addis Ababa and more foreign citizens were told to leave.