Around 5,000 people gathered in Sydney yesterday to protest Australia’s policy of keeping refugees and asylum seekers in detention offshore.

Tens of thousands of banner-waving protesters marched through the streets of Seoul yesterday, demanding President Park Geun-Hye resign, a day after she apologised and accepted full blame for a crippling corruption scandal.

Opposition lawmakers on Friday called on President Rodrigo Duterte to pursue rebellion and other criminal charges against Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) founding chairman Nur Misuari despite his participation in peace talks.

A mayor on Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s list of top drugs suspects was killed during a shootout at a prison yesterday, police said, in the latest high-profile killing in his bloody war on narcotics.

The dream becomes reality”, “Our son, our hope”: the headlines in the Kenyan press in 2008 captured pride and excitement after the election of Barack Obama. Eight years later, enthusiasm for the outgoing president has faded on a continent that he is accused of forsaking.

Nigerian troops yesterday rescued another of the missing Chibok schoolgirls seized by Boko Haram Islamists, in an operation near the border with Cameroon, a spokesman said.

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has dismissed Turkey’s threats to walk away from a promise to stem the flow of illegal migrants to Europe if the European Union fails to grant Turks visa-free travel to the bloc.

Aid groups helping rescue migrants in the Mediterranean have accused the European Union of being in denial over the unprecedented carnage unfolding on its southern doorstep.

At least 10 people were injured yesterday when security forces clashed with a group of protesting mourners carrying the body of a teenager who died in a hospital here the previous night amid conflicting reports about the cause of his death.

Residents of New Delhi and surrounding areas continued to complain of respiratory problems and burning eyes as the region remained covered in a shroud of smog yesterday, while experts ruled out any respite with the situation expected to continue for some more days.

Trucks are parked at Yeshwanthpur yard in Bengaluru yesterday after an association of lorry owners went on an indefinite strike to press for various demands.

At least 18 people died yesterday when their bus plunged down a gorge into a river in the northern hill state of Himachal Pradesh.