International

A call for human rights to be respected globally was made on Monday by UN Secretary General-elect Antonio Guterres, during a visit to Beijing. China’s leadership has overseen a sweeping crackdown on activists since President Xi Jinping took power, including detaining or imprisoning dozens of rights lawyers in what the government says is the targeting […]

Opinion polls in Italy are predicting the prime minister’s defeat in a constitutional referendum due at the start of December. If it comes to pass, it will be the third big anti-establishment revolt by voters in a major Western country this year, following Britain’s unexpected vote to leave the EU and the US election of

François Fillon comprehensively won the second round of the centre-right presidential primary defeating Alain Juppé by a wide margin. “France wants the truth and France wants action,” he told cheering supporters following Juppé’s concession speech, promising to “reach out to all those who want to serve the country.” “The left means failure, the far-right means

South African churches have condemned the practices of a self-styled pastor who has allegedly sprayed his followers with a harmful insecticide. Lethebo Rabalago, a self-proclaimed prophet at the Mount Zion General Assembly (MZGA) in the Limpopo province, northeast South Africa, has used a pesticide called Doom in purported healing services. Photos posted to the MZGA