GENEVA, Aug 31 — Countries are legally obliged to provide broad reparations for harms resulting from both direct and indirect involvement in the transatlantic African slave trade, a United Nations

NAIROBI, Aug 31 — Hundreds of passengers were stranded at Kenya’s main international airport overnight as the latest strike by workers entered a second day today. Jomo Kenyatta International Airport

SEOUL, Aug 31 — A South Korean court sentenced the leader of the secretive and powerful Unification Church today to two years in prison on charges of bribing officials, including the

PARIS, Aug 31 — The Middle East war has flared again for the first time in a month, with American strikes on Iran prompting retaliation from Tehran today. Here are

KATHMANDU, Aug 31 — Devastating floods near the border with China have killed at least 903 people in Nepal, while the number of missing in the country has soared to

WASHINGTON, Aug 31 — President Donald Trump yesterday threatened a prominent NBC broadcast journalist with possible punishment by US media regulators as the Republican expressed disappointment with coverage of his

KATHMANDU, Aug 31 — More than 3,000 people were listed as missing yesterday, with at least 797 confirmed dead, after the flash floods and landslides that hit the Nepal-Tibet border.

WASHINGTON, Aug 31 — Google redesignated Lake Ontario as “Lake America” on maps seen by US users yesteray after President Donald Trump announced he was renaming the body of water,

WASHINGTON, Aug 31 — The United States said yesterday it had attacked Iranian rocket launchers on a small island in the Strait of Hormuz, its first strikes on Iran in

MUMBAI, Aug 31 — One year ago, Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the airline sector as a symbol of a rising India poised to “soar to great heights”. Today, that optimism is