The court agreed unanimously to hear a case brought by opposition parties who argue Prayut has reached the end of his eight-year term limit as prime minister. Judges also agreed by five votes to four to suspend Prayut from office until the case is ...

President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who replaced Gotabaya Rajapaksa after his ouster in July, slapped a ban on goods including home appliances, tools and sports gear. The South Asian island nation of 22 million people has been suffering dire shortages ...

The kingdom's 2017 constitution bars the prime minister from serving more than eight years in total, and opposition parties say Prayut, who took power in a 2014 coup, has reached the limit. If the court agrees to hear the case, Prayut could be susp...

His is a common reaction. An unexpected ban on hookah smoking in this West African country has stirred surprise as well as division, leaving devotees dismayed but health advocates delighted. Bars where small groups of smokers -- primarily young m...

"This land is Russian, always has been, and always will be!" It was on this spot near Lake Peipus on Russia's border with Estonia that eight centuries ago Nevsky repelled a force of Teutonic Knights who wanted to convert Russia to Catholicism. Kno...

The meticulously choreographed uncrewed flight should yield spectacular images as well as valuable scientific data. Blastoff The giant Space Launch System rocket will make its maiden flight from Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida....

The goal is to return humans to the Moon for the first time since the last Apollo mission in 1972 -- and eventually to Mars. The 322-foot (98-meter) Space Launch System (SLS) rocket is scheduled to blast off at 8:33 am (1233 GMT) from the Kennedy S...

The world's second-largest economy has been hit by record temperatures, flash floods and droughts this summer -- phenomena that scientists have warned are becoming more frequent and intense due to climate change. Southern China has recorded its lon...

The probes are another blow to a key sector, which is already struggling with slowing sales, angry customers and heavily indebted developers. Authorities said in separate notices on Tuesday that they were investigating Zhuang Yuekai, chairman of C&...

A fleet of 14 trains provided by French industrial giant Alstom to the German state Lower Saxony will replace the diesel locomotives on the 100 kilometres (60 miles) of track connecting the cities of Cuxhaven, Bremerhaven, Bremervoerde and Buxtehude...

But the two candidates vying to succeed Boris Johnson as Conservative party leader and UK prime minister have differing approaches to the problem. - Cost of living - UK inflation is currently at 10.1 percent -- the highest level in 40 years -- wi...

A struggling economy, the high cost of living, soaring poverty compounded by the Covid pandemic, drought in southern parts of the country and the death of a former strongman president all loom large. The ruling People's Movement for the Liberation ...

For everything from drinking to bathing and washing dishes and clothes, Ajil and his eight children wait at their home in Al-Aghawat for trucked-in water from the Diwaniyah provincial authorities once or twice a week. In burning summer temperatures...

Sitting with friends on a picnic blanket, under light rain and a thick, swirling mist in Al-Namas, Abdullah Al-Enizi wears a body-warmer over his traditional white robes to guard against the chill. The retreat, 2,800 metres (9,200 feet) above sea l...

The single currency tumbled to $0.9901 -- a new 20-year low -- but later clawed back losses as the greenback was hit by poor US economic data. The dollar had strengthened this week ahead of a speech Friday by US Federal Reserve chief Jerome Powell,...