In a sun-baked field just outside the Jordanian city of Ramtha, a young group of Syrian men and women weave their way up and down rows of green peppers. Refugees have long been working illegally on farms in Jordan but risked being deported back to Syria if they were caught. ...

The United States has approved the possible sale to Saudi Arabia of up to 153 tanks, hundreds of machine guns and other military gear in a deal worth $1.15bn. The announcement coincided with news that Saudi-led coalition warplanes had resumed air strikes on Yemen’s capital for the first time in ...

Donald Trump has been accused of a making an “assassination threat” against rival Hillary Clinton, plunging his presidential campaign into a fresh crisis. The volatile Republican nominee was speaking at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, about the next president’s power to appoint supreme court justices. “Hillary wants to abolish, ...

Japan’s Emperor Akihito has strongly indicated he wants to step down, saying he fears his age will make it difficult to fulfil his duties. The revered 82-year-old emperor’s comments came in only his second-ever televised address to the public. Emperor Akihito did not explicitly say he wanted to abdicate as ...

Symbol of resistance against state violence in Manipur is expected to end her protest to possibly enter politics and get married Almost sixteen years after she started a hunger strike, India’s ‘Iron Lady’ Irom Chanu Sharmila, is expected to eat her first meal on Tuesday. The 44-year old campaigner, who ...

A Chinese tourist spent nearly two weeks in a German migrant hostel after mistakenly applying for asylum when he actually wanted to report a theft. German media say the 31-year-old backpacker, who spoke neither German nor English, underwent a medical check and his fingerprints were taken. A Red Cross worker ...

Aviation experts are investigating whether faulty landing gear could have caused a plane to crash at Dubai international airport and burst into flames, killing a firefighter tackling the blaze, although all 300 passengers and crew were able to escape. The Emirates Boeing 777 was engulfed by intense fire, and black ...

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party has taken an early lead as vote counting continued in local government elections where it faces the risk of losing control of key cities for the first time since coming to power. The party, which toppled white apartheid rule after the country’s first ...

It is three months since parliament passed the Immigration Act, which includes my amendment that unaccompanied child refugees in Europe should be able to come to live in the UK. I made it clear that we should take our fair share of the total and other countries should do likewise. ...

We squash mosquitoes with our enormous hands. We poison-bomb them from spray trucks and airplanes. We irradiate them, drain their habitats, breed them experimentally in laboratories to confound their DNA. We’ve known for more than a century that a mosquito’s bite can pass on brutal disease: Zika is the virus ...