An Indonesian woman accused of assassinating the North Korean leader’s half-brother was freed yesterday after Malaysian prosecutors dropped a murder…

A woman widowed in the latest deadly attack by ethnic Rakhine rebels called on the army and insurgents to lay down arms and talk, as violence rips through the troubled western Myanmar state. Rakhine state is riven by ethnic and religious divisions, and was the epicentre of the bloody military crackdown…

Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaido will ask lawmakers yesterday to declare a “state of alarm” over the country’s devastating…

Egypt’s army yesterday said 46 suspected jihadists were killed in clashes in the restive Sinai Peninsula, where troops are fighting the Islamic State group. The “extremely dangerous” militants were killed in shootouts in north and central Sinai, the army said in a statement read on…