AFP, LONDON: For more than 30 years, sharia courts enforcing Islamic law have been operating quietly across Britain. But two official inquiries have put them in the spotlight amid accusations that they discriminate against women. Very little is known about them, even their number, which one study by…

AFP, WASHINGTON: Hillary Clinton’s stunning loss to the populist Donald Trump has been all the more bitter for her supporters because while she…

AFP, WELLINGTON: US Secretary of State John Kerry made an impassioned plea Sunday for America to maintain action on global warming, despite the election of climate-change denier Donald Trump. While US President-elect Trump has labelled climate change a hoax and threatened to pull out of the Paris emissions…

AFP, KHUZDAR DISTRICT, Pakistan: Survivors of a massive bomb attack on a shrine in southwest Pakistan that killed dozens spoke of their horror Sunday after families were ripped apart in a strike showing the expanding reach of the Islamic State group. The blast, later confirmed to be the work of a teenage…

AFP, SEOUL: South Korean prosecutors said Sunday they would question President Park Geun-Hye this week over a snowballing corruption scandal involving a close friend that has triggered massive protests calling for her resignation. The scandal centres on Park’s shadowy confidant, Choi Soon-Sil,…

AFP, KATHMANDU: Police arrested 223 members of a Maoist splinter group across Nepal Sunday for vandalising vehicles and forcing shops to close while trying to enforce a nationwide strike. The protesters from the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) had called on factories, schools and public transport…