The US is to ban its citizens from travelling to North Korea, according to two agencies that operate tours there.
Koryo Tours and Young Pioneer Tours said the ban would be announced on 27 July to come into effect 30 days later.
The US has not confirmed the news.
Young Pioneer Tours was the agency that took US student Otto Warmbier to North Korea. He was later arrested and sentenced to 15...
A university student is likely to become Australia's youngest-ever senator after the resignation of a politician he calls his "mentor".
UK-born Jordon Steele-John, 22, has agreed to replace Scott Ludlam in the Senate for the left-wing Greens party.
Mr Ludlam quit last week, becoming the first of two senators to resign for holding dual citizenship - a status which bars politicians from...
Israel has tightened security around Jerusalem's Old City amid fears of violence over the installation of metal detectors at a sacred site.
Israel has barred men under the age of 50 from the area after Palestinian leaders called for worshippers to flock there for Friday prayers.
There have been nightly clashes since the devices were installed last weekend at entrances to the holy...
Millions of Venezuelans have joined a general strike called by the opposition as pressure mounts on President Nicolás Maduro to cancel elections for a new constituent assembly.
Clashes between police and protesters killed at least three people. More than 300 others were reportedly arrested.
Mr Maduro said the strike was minimal and that its leaders would be arrested.
Since April, when...
A strong earthquake in the Aegean Sea has killed at least two people on the Greek island of Kos, officials say.
The 6.7-magnitude quake hit 12km (seven miles) north-east of Kos, near the Turkish coast, with a depth of 10km, the US Geological Survey said.
At least 100 others were also injured at the popular tourist destination. Some buildings were damaged.
In the Turkish city of Bodrum,...
Two years after Cecil the lion was killed by a trophy-hunter in Zimbabwe, prompting global outrage, his son may have met a similar sad end.
Xanda, a six-year-old lion with several young cubs, was reportedly shot on a trophy hunt.
He is said to have died outside the Hwange National Park in northern Zimbabwe.
The lion had been fitted with an electronic tracking collar by Oxford University...
The Palestinian group Hamas has warned Israel against crossing a "red line" at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, as residents of the Gaza Strip demonstrate for a second day in solidarity with Muslim worshippers protesting against the new security measures at the holy site.
"To the Zionist enemy I say openly and clearly: al-Aqsa Mosque and Jerusalem are red lines. Truly they are red lines," Ismail...
Qatar's Ministry of Interior says experts now have evidence of the source of the cyberattack on the country's official media which occurred in late May.
In a press conference in Doha on Thursday, officials said the hacking of Qatar News Agency accounts took place in coordination with, and through, one of the blockading states.
"The hackers had total control of the QNA network, including the...
The Election Commission of India on Thursday said Ram Nath Kovind, formerly the governor of the Bihar state and a member of the Dalit, has won the presidential election.
Kovind, a member of the National Democratic Alliance coalition, will succeed outgoing Indian leader Pranab Mukherjee to become India's 14th president -- defeating Meira Kumar, a former member of India's parliament who became...
The German government has warned its citizens and firms they face the risk of "arbitrary" arrest in Turkey.
"People who are travelling to Turkey for private or business reasons are urged to exercise increased caution," the German foreign ministry said.
Firms face investment risks in Turkey because of Turkish legal deficiencies, the ministry said.
Germany protested to Turkey's Berlin...
