Police in Hong Kong have arrested media tycoon Jimmy Lai, an outspoken critic of China’s policies in Hong Kong. A top aide said Lai is being held over suspected collusion with foreign forces under the...
Belarus president Lukashenko looks set to win re-election, prompting protests
Belarus police fired water cannons, tear gas and stun grenades in a crackdown on protests that erupted on Sunday as President Alexander Lukashenko was set to claim another election win in the face of the biggest...
Lebanon: Protestors call for fall of government on second day of Beirut demonstrations
Lebanese police fired tear gas to try to disperse rock-throwing protesters blocking a road near parliament in Beirut on Sunday in a second day of anti-government demonstrations triggered by last week’s devastating...
Beirut blast destroyed landmark 19th-century palace after painstaking restoration
The 160-year-old palace withstood two world wars, the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the French mandate and Lebanese independence. After the country’s 1975-1990 civil war, it took 20 years of careful restoration for the...
Election Night | Violent clashes between Belarus protesters & riot police after presidential vote
Police and protesters clashed in Belarus following claims by the country’s president Alexander Lukashenko that he has won the election.
That’s scary | Indonesia’s Sumatra blanketed with Sinabung volcano’s ash
Sinabung volcano on Indonesia’s Sumatra island has spewed an ash column some five kilometers into the air during its second eruption in three days, covering nearby villages in soot.
Beirut explosion: ‘They killed her, they killed her dreams’
The mother of a paramedic who was one of the first responders on the scene of Tuesday’s Beirut explosion says she will never forgive those responsible for her daughter’s death.