The men sip beers in Altenfelden’s Barolo bar, remembering the night this summer when attackers set fire to the town’s refugee centre before a single migrant had moved in.

Ukraine is refitting and expanding its naval fleet, including repairing its flagship, the frigate Hetman Sahaydachnyy, to counter a Russian military build-up in the annexed territory of Crimea, the commander of the Ukrainian navy says.

A speedboat carrying 101 people, mostly migrant workers, struck a reef and sank off an Indonesian island yesterday, killing 18 people, the country’s disaster agency said.

Vietnam has opened an investigation into a blaze which killed 13 at a karaoke bar and took several hours to put out, as officials said yesterday some victims likely suffocated in windowless rooms.

Two Iowa police officers were shot and killed yesterday while sitting in their patrol cars in what police called unprovoked ambushes, and a 46-year-old suspect who investigators believe acted alone was captured hours later, officials said.

When America goes to the polls on November 8, according to current and former US intelligence officials, it will likely experience the culmination of a new form of information war.

South Korean President Park Geun-Hye replaced her prime minister and finance minister yesterday, as she scrambled to contain a damaging scandal over a close friend accused of meddling in state affairs.

The government suffered a humiliating High Court defeat over London’s toxic air yesterday when a judge ruled that its plans to cut deadly pollution levels in the capital are not good enough.

A South African judge yesterday ruled that a report over alleged influence peddling in government should be released, after President Jacob Zuma dropped a court bid to delay its publication and thousands marched against him.

Air quality in Delhi and the National Capital region deteriorated further yesterday, the toxicity level recording a new high since the October 30 Diwali night.

Hundreds of schools were ordered to close indefinitely in Jammu and Kashmir yesterday after shelling by Indian and Pakistani troops in state killed 14 civilians in two days.

In four years, Ivan Rey Tan worked with seven Philippine businesses. From a doughnut shop to a baby products store, the firms only hired workers on short-term contracts to rein in costs, and none of his jobs lasted longer than five months.