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American actor Meryl Streep has said a "squirrel has more rights" than a girl in Afghanistan, adding her voice to a call by Afghan women to end the Taliban government's severe restrictions on their ...

Shares in Hong Kong surged more than three percent on Tuesday after China unveiled a slew of measures aimed at kickstarting the struggling economy.

Hurricane John on Monday made landfall in southern Mexico as a major Category 3 storm, the US-based National Hurricane Center said.

The Fed’s rate cuts should help calm government-debt markets, but the November election could bring it roaring back.

Sri Lanka's new leftist president is expected to call a snap parliamentary election ahead of his plans to renegotiate the ...

The world's longest serving death row prisoner will hear from a Japanese court on Thursday if he would face execution or ...

The market for responsible investing grew 15% in 2023, according to Morgan Stanley, Paul Polman writes in a guest commentary.

The nearly year-long war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas has killed tens of thousands of people, and had what aid agencies have described as a catastrophic humanitarian impact.

Walking through the deserted streets of Pokrovsk as Russian troops inch closer and closer every day, Galyna said she was not ...

China's top diplomat Wang Yi told his Japanese counterpart that he hoped Tokyo would handle the fatal stabbing of a schoolboy in Shenzhen "calmly and rationally", China's foreign ministry said Tuesday ...