Poroshenko was elected in 2014 after mass protests forced out former president Viktor Yanukovich. Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko will run for a second term in office in the upcoming elections scheduled to take place in April. The 53-year-old, a confectionary magnate and one of Ukraine’s richest men, told thousands of supporters that one of his main priorities […]

KILLER coronavirus could pose a lethal threat for millions of Brits with asthma, experts have warned. Health experts in China say the deadly bug, which has killed at least 81, can be passed on before the infected even know they are sick. The virus is understood to cause symptoms which can exacerbate asthma and increase […]

Kim Bok-dong spent years demanding justice for Japan’s wartime sexual violence against women. At 93, Kim Bok-dong died as she had lived for many years: at the heart of the controversy over Japan’s use of forced labour in its wartime brothels. Kim, who died on Monday at a hospital in the South Korean capital of […]

After criticism, president says Abu Bakar Bashir will only be freed if he pledges loyalty to the state and its ideology. Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo has said a scholar linked to the 2002 Bali bombings would only be freed from imprisonment if he pledged loyalty to the state and its secular ideology, after news he would […]

UN rights envoy Yanghee Lee says holding perpetrators to account for crimes is necessary before refugees could return. Myanmar’s army chief should be prosecuted for “genocide” against the Rohingya, a United Nations’ human rights investigator has said. Yanghee Lee, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, added that holding the perpetrators to account for […]

Former key MBS aide Saud al-Qahtani asked Reem Suleiman to stop writing and then she was imprisoned and tortured. Saudi exile Reem Suleiman has told Al Jazeera she intends to start a new organisation advocating for women’s rights in the kingdom. In an interview with Al Jazeera Arabic, Suleiman, who is seeking asylum in the […]

Spain, Portugal, France, Malta, Italy, Greece and Cyprus will meet to discuss security, energy and migration. Nicosia, Cyprus – The fifth South EU Summit takes place on Tuesday in the Cypriot capital of Nicosia, where the issue of migration is again expected to be one of the key headlines of the one-day event. The seven countries that […]

The Czech seventh seed stages comeback to defeat the seven-time champion in the quarterfinals at Melbourne. Serena Williams squandered four match points and a commanding lead in the deciding set as Czech seventh seed Karolina Pliskova produced a stunning comeback to claim a 6-4, 4-6, 7-5 quarterfinal win over the American tennis star at the Australian […]

Mariam Sadiq al-Mahdi, deputy head of her father’s Umma party, was taken into custody early on Wednesday. Security forces briefly detained the daughter of Sudanese opposition leader Sadiq al-Mahdi, her family said, as authorities continue to press ahead with a crackdown on the weeks-long protests that have spread around the country. Two security vehicles belonging […]

A passenger plane carrying 83 people has crashed in Afghanistan, according to reports. The Boeing 737-400 has reportedly come down in eastern Ghazni province, an area under control of the Taliban. The crash scene is in the remote and mountainous Deh Yak district. It is not yet known if anyone has survived after the plane […]