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Chinese policymakers are facing calls to do more to prop up the ailing real estate market after the largest property developer, Country Garden, warned of multibillion-dollar losses and missed bond payments....

Rohingya people living in refugee camps in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar are being arbitrarily detained, beaten and tortured by members of the Armed Police Battalion (APBn) — a specialized combat unit of the Bangladesh police force — revealed an investigation by the human rights NGO Fortify Rights...

Amphorae were made primarily for trade. In ancient times, people used these vessels, which held five liters (1.3 gallons) to 80 liters (21 gallons) depending on their size, to transport oil, wine, honey, olives, pickled vegetables and garum — a fermented fish sauce that was as popular with the Romans as soy sauce is today in...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has urged the country’s arms industry to increase production of missiles and artillery in order to have “overwhelming military power” and be ready for war, state media KCNA reported on Monday....

Obada Hijjo has not had an easy time since he arrived in Germany four years ago. Trained as a policeman in Turkey, the 30-year-old Palestinian initially worked for the police in the West Bank. But, when a case he was involved resulted in a threat to his life, he and his wife were forced to leave the country. Now he is stranded...

“Russia is competing with Western countries to supply weapons to Ukraine,” joked Colonel Oleksandr Saruba, of the center within the Ukrainian armed forces that investigates the weapons captured during Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine since February 2022....

Indigenous peoples around the world are defending their human rights and culture as well as nature and their homeland. Time and again, they are faced with massive repression, discrimination and racism. There are approximately half a billion Indigenous people worldwide....

Germany’s industrial output fell for a second consecutive month in June, figures published on Monday show, with a drop of 1.5% far wider than the previous month’s slip of 0.1%....

Japan on Sunday commemorated the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in the final phase of World War II....

Pope Francis on Sunday told an estimated 1.5 million mostly-young crowd at an open-air Mass near Lisbon, Portugal, to follow their dreams and not be afraid of failure....

At least 15 people were killed and dozens others injured when a train derailed in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province, officials said....

On a July morning shortly before 9 a.m., my adventure of crossing the Alps began. Along with my father and a handful of other mountain sports enthusiasts, I traveled all the way to Wildental, Austria to take on the challenge....

Officials from about 30 countries have been invited to participate in peace talks for Ukraine in the Saudi port city of Jeddah on August 5 and 6....

Defense chiefs of the West African regional group, ECOWAS, on Friday, agreed on a plan for intervention in Niger if its coup leaders do not restore constitutional order....

The world has overreached its sustainable biological limits for the year, according to the US-based environment NGO Global Footprint Network. Humanity now needs about 1.7 planets to maintain its consumption....

West Africa’s defense chiefs were wrapping up a meeting in Nigeria’s capital Abuja on Thursday where they discussed the possibility of a military intervention if diplomatic efforts fail to reinstate Niger’s ousted president, Mohamed Bazoum....

The latest numbers on Japanese population make for a dismal reading — the number of people who died in 2022 (1.56 million) was roughly twice as big as the number of newborn children (771,000). Based on residency registrations, the country’s Internal Ministry estimates a total population loss of some 800,000 last year. This...