President Emmanuel Macron has outlined what he called a “new method” for improving lives in neglected and poverty-wracked areas of French cities after a series of shockingly violent incidents thrust urban crime into the spotlight.

From air traffic controllers and street sweepers to librarians and teachers, French public-sector employees joined rail workers in striking yesterday against reforms planned by President Emmanuel Macron, calling them an “attack” against civil services and their economic security.

Belarus appointed yesterday its first ambassador to Sweden for almost six years, resolving a bitter diplomatic spat over a pro-democracy stunt involving teddy bears.

Prime Minister Theresa May joined Prince William at a memorial service yesterday to remember the 22 victims of a suicide bombing at a pop concert in Manchester a year ago, Britain’s deadliest attack for 12 years.

Ten men from the same family vanished after militants invaded the Philippine city of Marawi a year ago — each day since, their wives have prayed their bones do not lie in its devastated landscape.

Former Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa admitted yesterday that he was “more than 50%” convinced about running for senator in 2019 but that his final decision would depend on President Rodrigo Duterte.

For the first time, the Philippines will send ships to the world’s largest maritime exercises in Hawaii, the Navy chief announced yesterday.

Pakistan can store just 10% of the water flowing through the country’s rivers and the rest goes to waste, the minister for water resources told the National Assembly yesterday.

Members of a group of troop and police contributing countries to United Nations peacekeeping have expressed full support for a UN plan to make the world body’s flagship operations “stronger and safer”, ...

The death toll in one of Cuba’s worst air disasters rose to 111 on Monday while Mexico suspended the operations of the Mexican company that had leased the 39-year old Boeing 737 to Cuba’s flagship airline.

Brazilian President Michel Temer will give up plans to run for re-election and will instead support former finance minister Henrique Meirelles as presidential candidate ...

The toll due to the Nipah virus (NiP), presently identified in Kerala’s Kozhikode and Malappuram, rose to 10 yesterday even as the central and state governments scrambled to contain its outbreak.