AFP, PHNOM PENH: An American museum on Monday returned to Cambodia a 10th-century sandstone sculpture of the Hindu god Rama decades after it was looted from a jungle temple during the kingdom’s civil war. The 62-inch-tall torso, which was stolen in the 1970s from the Koh Ker temple site near the…

AFP, ATHENS: Greece said Monday it would make use of loudspeakers at a migrants’ camp on the Macedonia frontier to dispel “irresponsible rumours” that the border is about to reopen. “We are trying to step up efforts to address refugees and migrants in their own language and without…

AFP, BRUSSELS: Belgium raised the death toll from the Brussels attacks to 35 and charged three terror suspects Monday as police across Europe stepped up efforts to unravel an Islamic State network linked to the carnage. Police released a new video of a third suspect in the March 22 Zaventem airport…

AFP, RIYADH: Rebels who control the Yemeni capital Sanaa have released nine Saudis in exchange for 109 Yemenis, the Riyadh-led coalition fighting them said Monday, in the latest sign of tensions easing before peace talks. “Nine Saudi prisoners have been recovered and 109 Yemenis who were arrested…

AFP, Havana: Cuba’s Fidel Castro signaled continued resistance to rapprochement between Washington and Havana, writing in an opinion piece yesterday that his country “has no need of gifts” from the United States. The former president, 89, remained out of sight during last week’s…

WASHINGTON: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, known more for his bravado than for sound policy statements, did not specifically condemn…

AFP, MEXICO CITY: Authorities have captured a man identified as the chief financial operator behind drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s empire, who they say laundered some $4 billion in the past decade, federal police reported Sunday. “Groups of elite federal police and…