International News

September 8, 2018

Egyptian ‘harasser’ stripped by crowd

An Egyptian minibus driver who was stripped to his underwear after being accused of sexual harassment may himself have been the victim of a scam, Egyptian […]
September 8, 2018

Oregon romance novelist charged in husband’s murder

A 68-year-old romance novelist has been accused of shooting and killing her husband in the north-western US state of Oregon. Nancy Crampton Brophy was arraigned on […]
September 8, 2018

Chevron wins Ecuador rainforest ‘oil dumping’ case

An international tribunal in The Hague has ruled in favour of the US oil company, Chevron, in an environmental dispute with the government of Ecuador. Chevron […]
September 8, 2018

Protests as Moldova ‘deports Turkish teachers’

The human rights group Amnesty International has protested over Moldova’s arrest and deportation of seven Turkish school staff. Turkish media say Turkey’s intelligence service MIT was […]
September 8, 2018

Turkey HDP: Court jails pro-Kurdish leader Demirtas

A leading Kurdish politician has been jailed for making and “spreading terrorist propaganda” for militants fighting the Turkish state. Selahattin Demirtas, a former co-chair of the […]
September 8, 2018

US woman jailed for smuggling cocaine in high heels

A US woman who said she was tricked by a fake internet suitor into smuggling drugs into Australia has been jailed. Denise Marie Woodrum, 51, was […]
September 8, 2018

US teen charged as adult over murder of 83-year-old woman

WASHINGTON: A 14-year-old suspected of having raped and killed a woman in her eighties in the US city of Baltimore was charged as an adult with […]
September 8, 2018

US charges North Korean hacker in Sony, WannaCry cyberattacks

WASHINGTON: The US government on Thursday charged and sanctioned a North Korean man in the 2017 global WannaCry ransomware cyberattack and the 2014 cyberassault on Sony, […]