Category: 2. World

The Iranian speaker arrived in Geneva late on Monday at the head of a parliamentary delegation.

He is also scheduled to hold bilateral talks with his counterparts from other countries, and meet Iranian expatriates in Switzerland.

The Sixth…

A 58-year-old man was killed at the scene in the Southwark section of central London, the Metropolitan police said. A 27-year-old man died from his injuries at the hospital.

The attack was not believed to be terror related, Detective Chief…

According to China Central Television, twenty-eight of the victims were residents of the Miyun District in the northern part of the city.

Highways and power lines have been damaged in areas affected by the rains.

The average rainfall in Beijing…

Thailand has accused Cambodia of “deliberately” violating a ceasefire the two countries had agreed on Monday to end border clashes that have killed at least 33 people and displaced thousands.

It’s a shaky start for the ceasefire, which was meant…

 Five people, including a police officer, were killed in a shooting at an office building in downtown Manhattan on Monday evening, NBC News reported, citing a New York Police Department spokesperson.

Among the dead is a New York police officer….

Parents in China are being offered 3,600 yuan (£375; $500) a year for each of their children under the age of three in the government’s first nationwide subsidy aimed at boosting birth rates.

The country’s birth rate has been falling even since the…

Rescue workers were deployed to help dozens of residents of a Beijing nursing home in chest-high water.

At least 30 people have been killed in floods that have inundated large parts of northeastern China.

More than 80,000 people have been…

Álvaro Uribe has become the first former Colombian president to be convicted of a crime.

A court in Bogotá found the 73-year-old, who was president from 2002 to 2010, guilty of witness-tampering and a fraud charge.

He was convicted of attempting…