KUALA LUMPUR: Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak was formally charged yesterday with corruption linked to a multi-billion dollar financial scandal that contributed to his shock election defeat less than two months ago, reports AFP. The first ex-premier in Malaysia to appear before a judge,…

Death toll for 2018 exceeds 1,000, sparking concerns over Italian and Libyan crackdown More than 200 migrants have drowned at sea in the Mediterranean…

MAE SAI: Thai rescuers vowed to take a "no risk" approach to freeing 12 boys and their football coach from a flooded cave, as fresh video emerged…

KANO: Nigerian police say they have found the bodies of 41 men with their throats cut in a northern area that is notorious as a hideout for criminal gangs, reports AFP. Eighteen bodies were found in a river on Sunday while 23 others were discovered in a nearby forest in the Zurmi area of Zamfara state,…

MEXICO CITY: He has just been elected commander-in-chief of a nation mired in an intractable drug conflict that has claimed more than 200,000 lives in…

LONDON: British police said yesterday that two people are in a critical condition in a Salisbury hospital after being exposed to an "unknown substance" not far from where former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned, reports AFP. Police said they considered the situation…

SANAA: The UN envoy for Yemen said yesterday he had held "fruitful" talks with rebel leader Abdulmalik al-Huthi in his bid to avert all-out…