Fora Dilma. Dilma Out. The battle cry of the enraged right-wing of Brazil, which rang out around the streets for months, has come to pass. On Wednesday afternoon, the Senate voted to strip Dilma Rousseff of the presidency by 61 votes to 20.
France’s prime minister, Manuel Valls, has clashed with his education minister amid growing divisions in the government over the controversial burkini bans on some beaches.
The Chinese Weightlifting Association said on Wednesday it was shocked by news that three Chinese lifters were among 15 who have failed retesting of their samples from the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Two years have passed since the European Union Court of Justice recognized an individual's "right to be forgotten," leading to the removal of delicate personal information found through Internet search engines.
A Thai military court has issued arrest warrants for 17 people amid a massive hunt for those responsible for last week's wave of bombings and arson attacks in southern resort destinations.
In the age of globalization, competing at the Olympics means potentially coming up against former teammates who now represent rival nations — a reality Team China must confront in Rio de Janeiro.
Crown Prince Naruhito, who is the next in line to Japan's Chrysanthemum Throne, is one of the fiercest critics of the cloistered monarchy institution he belongs to.
Remarried couples in Guangdong province who are pregnant with their second child will not be forced to have an abortion, even though they have not yet been granted permission for a second child.
U.S. astronauts who flew the Apollo moon-landing missions in the 1960s and 1970s are experiencing higher rates of heart problems that are thought to be caused by their exposure to deep space radiation, new research said Thursday.
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has just approved a proposal on conditional release of prisoners ahead of time, following which some 20,000 prisoners will enjoy early release by 2018.
With Australia's official census set to be conducted next month, concerns have been raised for older Australians who might not be able to negotiate the online interface.
Police and media organizations are calling for rational patriotism after sporadic protests against the United States broke out across China in the past few days triggered by the Arbitral Tribunal in The Hague's illegal ruling on the South China Sea issue.
Indonesia on Tuesday confirmed the death of the country's most-wanted terrorist who was killed in a gunfight with officers in the vast jungles of Central Sulawesi on early Monday evening.
A tank rolls through five lanes of deadlocked traffic towards the Bosphorus Bridge, crushing cars. A military helicopter shoots at people dashing across a highway. Mutinous soldiers open fire on civilians outside an air base.
China has seen an increasing number of students enrolled abroad heading home for career development. As part of new series, we are going to share stories of some overseas returnees. We take a look at why they are coming back, the challenges they face and what their expectations are.
Hillary Clinton campaigned with potential vice presidential running-mate U.S. Senator Tim Kaine in his home state of Virginia on Thursday, testing whether the person widely seen as the "safe choice" can propel her to the White House in November.
Campaigners and families who lost their loved ones in controversial American covert drone missions in Pakistan have strongly disputed the claim by the United States its unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) only killed 116 civilians in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and Libya between January 2009 and the end of 2015.
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