TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday dumped arch-conservatives and embraced critical voices in a cabinet revamp he hopes will stem a…

London: The Statue of Liberty was the focus of a monumental exchange between a White House adviser and a reporter after Donald Trump backed an immigration policy favouring the better-educated, reports BBC. "The Statue of Liberty says, 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning…

SANTIAGO: Chile's Congress on Wednesday eased a strict ban on abortion in effect since the final days of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship nearly three decades ago, reports AFP. The measure, which passed with a 22-13 vote in the Senate, allows abortion in cases of rape, if the mother's life…

NEW DELHI: Police said Thursday they were investigating an outbreak of "braid chopping" that is spooking Indian villagers and has seen a woman murdered amid rumours of witchcraft, reports AFP. Since July, at least 55 women across five Indian states have reported waking to find their braids…

London: China's government has been condemned for the "enforced disappearance" of late Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo's widow, reports BBC. Poet Liu Xia has not been in touch with anyone since about a day before her husband's death and has been "held incommunicado in an unknown…

London: An Australian nurse has been jailed for 18 months in Cambodia for providing commercial surrogacy services, reports BBC. Tammy Davis-Charles was arrested in Phnom Penh in November last year, shortly after the Cambodian government had banned commercial surrogacy. During her trial the 49-year-old…

TEHRAN: Iran said on Thursday that new US sanctions were a violation of its nuclear deal with world powers, piling pressure on President Hassan Rouhani as he started his second term, reports AFP. Rouhani vowed to continue his efforts to end the country's isolation as he was sworn in by supreme leader…