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Security also top of mind for ex-governor, who leads a crowded field, ahead of opponents with better name recognition.

Some 200 children have died of acute kidney injury in Indonesia and cases also reported in The Gambia and Uzbekistan.

Rights group says the Armed Police Battalion is engaged in extortion, harassment and wrongful arrests of the refugees.

It will likely survive, but only after more firms and currencies crash and burn. Here’s why.

Shooting took place at Ilous Ellis Park during an MLK Car Show and Family Fun Day on Monday.

The serially lying Republican congressman is stuck in a mess of his creation. Yet I feel pity for him.

Despite a six-month UN-brokered truce ending in October, fighting has not escalated.

Julio Obama Mefuman was serving a 60-year jail term after being taken from South Sudan in a suspected kidnapping.

Tenants and first-time buyers struggle to build future as landlords cater to tourists.

Difficult terrain and inclement weather hampering rescue efforts near Pokhara, where plane carrying 72 people crashed.

Ukraine's ambassador criticises display of the Russian flag during Ukrainian player Kateryna Baindl's first round-match.

Iraq overcame Qatar 2-1 to book a place in Thursday's final against Oman, who edged Bahrain 1-0.

While work schemes offer Pacific Islanders economic opportunities, critics say they exacerbate labour shortages at home.

As the Russia-Ukraine war enters its 328th day, we take a look at the main developments.

Attacks on critical infrastructure from France to Denmark bear the hallmark of Russian operatives, experts say.

Police say operations at the facility in Central Sulawesi have resumed following clashes that left two workers dead.

Officials urge Germany to permit supply of the Leopard tanks to Ukraine amid fears of a renewed Russian offensive.

China's population fell last year for the first time since 1961 when the country struggled with a devastating famine.

Official figures reflect toll of Beijing's since-abandoned 'zero COVID' pandemic strategy.

Some 135 people died in the disaster last October prompting questions over safety standards and the use of tear gas.

Governor Gavin Newsom signs an executive order to help with relief efforts as state endures three weeks of storms.

Trial on Tesla boss Musk's old tweets that he had raised money to take the auto firm private is set to start on Tuesday.

Even as Venezuela's inflation reached an estimated 305 percent last year, gov't did not adjust employee salaries.

US federal holiday honouring slain civil rights leader comes amid rising fears over hate crimes, curbs to voting access.

Latvian President Egils Levits says Ukraine needs more support to resist a potential new Russian offensive.

High Court says claimants can challenge its previous ruling that the British gov't plan was lawful.

World leaders are gathering at the WEF in Davos to debate ways to revive the global economy.

Ukraine hopes German-made Leopard 2 battle tanks will become the backbone of a new fighting force.

Authorities are seeking to identify anyone who helped fund or organise the storming of government offices in Brasilia.

Arsenal of weapons, including M60 machine gun and grenades, belonged to FARC rebel dissidents, Colombian police say.

Democracy in Israel would mean an end to apartheid. That is not what the Israeli protesters want.

White House lawyers say Biden's 'personal residence is personal' after GOP demands more information about searches.

One of the war's deadliest attacks rocks the central Ukrainian city as Russia denies responsibility.

The government and allied clan militias have forced the rebels from swathes of territory, in the latest offensive.

David Carrick admits to dozens of sexual offences over 18 years while in London's Metropolitan Police.

The event was the eighth edition of AFRIMA and the first to be held in a French-speaking country.

Dramatic video shot on phone from the ground showed last moments before crash of plane carrying 72 people.

Family members of the victims of the 2020 Beirut port explosion were called in for questioning after recent protests.

Omar Khmour, 14, was shot in the head by the Israeli army during a raid on Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.

Burkina Faso has been struggling to contain violence by armed groups with links to al-Qaeda and ISIL (ISIS) since 2015.

Lambrecht has been blamed for failing to modernise the army and denounced over Berlin's response to the Ukraine war.

Al Jazeera takes a look at this federal holiday and what it means in the United States.

They want to earn millions from the very media they’ve attacked, while news that matters gets ignored in the process.

The accident comes eight days after another crash killed 40 people and injured more than 100.

Rights experts urge countries to take action against firms helping Myanmar's military produce weapons used in abuses.

The all-female Nigerian bouncers' team is honing skills and shattering stereotypes in a male-dominated industry.

Matteo Messina Denaro, a leader within Sicily's Cosa Nostra mafia, has been linked to a string of murders.

An opera singer fights to keep her community together when her theatre in Shanghai is slated for demolition.

The death toll from a missile strike on an apartment building in Dnipro has risen to 35.

Some 2,700 leaders from 130 countries, including 52 heads of state and government, will be at the meeting in Davos.