The latest published reporting from this region.
France’s iconic bars-tabacs are closing in droves, stripping communities of a key social lifeline and influencing their politics, according to a study that links the decline of neighbourhood bars with…
Read moreThe United States wants Kyiv and Moscow to end the nearly four-year war by June, and has offered to host talks between the two sides next week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said. If the June…
Read moreThe Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics opened Friday with a glittering ceremony at the San Siro stadium featuring US pop diva Mariah Carey, Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli and Chinese pianist Lang Lang…
Read moreAfter more than eighteen years of prohibition, the skies over Lahore are once again filled with kites as the city relives the excitement of the Basant festival this weekend, a centuries-old celebration…
Read moreFrance has seen a recent spate of cryptocurrency-related kidnappings, and this appears to be the latest case: a 35-year-old magistrate from Grenoble and her 66-year-old mother were found tied up in a…
Read morePakistan beat Netherlands by three wickets, but with only three balls to spare, in opening 2026 T20 World Cup fixture.
Read moreA tiny Bermudan snail once threatened by pesticides, habitat loss and the cannibalistic "wolf snail" has been saved from the edge of extinction after six colonies of the re-wilded molluscs were found…
Read moreThai voters will vote in a snap elections on Sunday to choose their third prime minister in just two years. The vote was called in December after the current prime minister dissolved parliament to sidestep…
Read moreA suspect accused of being a "key participant" in the deadly attack on an American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012 has been taken into US custody, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced.…
Read moreUS President Donald Trump on Friday described the latest round of indirect talks between Washington and Tehran as "very good", saying that the discussions would like resume "early next week". The Oman…
Read moreThe Islamic State group has said it was behind a deadly suicide bombing that killed at least 31 people during Friday prayers at a Shiite mosque in Islamabad. Pakistan's Shiite minority have been targeted…
Read morePrime Minister Sanae Takaichi pledged Saturday to make Japan "more prosperous and safer", including through tougher immigration screening, in a final appeal to voters on the eve of snap elections.
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