More than 40 people were injured in an explosion on Sunday at a bar in Sapporo in northern Japan, Kyodo news agency reported. There was no immediate word on the cause of the blast, which the agency said had caused a number of buildings to collapse.
UN special envoy Martin Griffiths urged Yemen's warring parties to respect a ceasefire accord struck at peace talks in Sweden after deadly clashes in Hodeida. He said the UN was working with Yemen's Saudi-backed government and Iran-aligned Huthi rebels to ensure accord were "implemented timely and properly"
A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck around 1,000 km north-northwest of the Australian city of Perth, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on Sunday. The quake occurred at a depth of 33.0 km, USGS said.
An extraordinary public row broke out today between British Prime Minister Theresa May and former Labour party leader Tony Blair over her Brexit deal. Ms May accused Tony Blair of insulting voters and trying to undermine her government with calls for a second referendum.
Former Maldives president Abdulla Yameen is under investigation for corruption, police said Sunday, after a court ordered accounts holding $6.5 million to be frozen.
A month of "yellow vest" protests have taken a further toll on the popularity of French President Emmanuel Macron, a new poll showed, with analysts saying he will be forced to change his governing style. Around 66,000 protesters turned out again on Saturday on the fifth round of demonstrations
UN chief Antonio Guterres called Sunday for a "credible" probe into the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi who was killed in Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul on October 2.
British education minister Damian Hinds said today the government was not planning for a second referendum, denying reports that ministers were looking at such a vote to break the deadlock over Brexit.
Air strikes and fierce clashes shook the outskirts of Yemen's rebel-held port city of Hodeida overnight, pro-government sources and residents said today, despite a UN-brokered ceasefire.
The discovery Thursday of 1,026 tusks at the Phnom Penh Autonomous Port followed a tip from the US embassy, the official said, and highlights Cambodia's emergence as a key regional transit point for the multibillion dollar trade in illicit wildlife.
Sri Lanka's sacked prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was reinstated Sunday, a legislator said, ending a 51-day political crisis in the island nation.
The US-led coalition in Syria destroyed on Saturday a mosque in the town of Hajin which had been used as an ISIS command and control center, the US military said.
US President Donald Trump's budget director and his pick to be the acting Chief of Staff, Mick Mulvaney, called Trump "a terrible human being" during a campaign debate in 2016.
