TORONTO—Canada is sending a charter plane to repatriate scientists who have been operating the country’s mobile Ebola laboratory in Sierra Leone. The Public Health Agency of...
TORONTO—A booze-fuelled fight between two women who were allegedly drinking and smoking in an airplane bathroom prompted Sunwing to turn a Cuba-bound flight back to Toronto,...
HANOI, Vietnam—The United States has expressed alarm over prison terms handed down against three Vietnamese democracy activists for obstructing traffic. Human rights groups have described the...
YANGON, Myanmar—Myanmar’s navy seized more than 2 million Ecstasy pills on a trawler off the southern coast in what an official said Monday was the biggest...
NEW DELHI—Hundreds of thousands of impoverished, low-caste Indians are still working with their bare hands to clean human excrement from open roads and millions of dry...
HANOI, Vietnam—Vietnam is sending a senior Communist party official to China this week to try to rebuild relations badly bit by Beijing’s decision to deploy an...
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone—The first British citizen confirmed to be infected with the deadly Ebola disease is being evacuated from Sierra Leone on a jet sent by...
An armed group detained 43 U.N. peacekeepers during fighting in Syria early Thursday and another 81 peacekeepers are trapped, the United Nations said. The peacekeepers were...
BEIJING—China’s Defence Ministry rejected U.S. accusations that a Chinese fighter jet’s intercept of a U.S. Navy surveillance aircraft off the southern Chinese coast was dangerous, and...
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone—Sierra Leone has passed a new law imposing possible jail time for anyone caught hiding an Ebola patient—a common practice that the World Health...