INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Today, Nelson Mandela would be celebrating his 100th birthday.

U.S. President Donald Trump has embraced the long-held narrative of his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin — that U.S. foreign policy, rather than Russian actions, is to blame for the deterioration of relations between the two countries — ahead of a summit meeting in Helsinki.

The UAE has rejected allegations mentioned in an Amnesty International report regarding its management of prisons in Yemen, stressing in a statement issued on Thursday that Yemeni prisons are within the jurisdiction of Yemeni authorities and are solely managed by Yemeni institutions.

The US president has angered many in Britain in the last two years with a series of actions and pronouncements. Some Britons plan to give him a "fitting" reception with an oversized "Trump baby" balloon.

Calling out the media for its biased reporting of crimes committed by African Australians is not about defending criminals or failing to sympathise with victims.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has named his son-in-law as the country’s finance minister after being sworn in to another five-year term, the BBC reports.

A dangerous mission to rescue 12 Thai schoolboys and their soccer coach trapped inside a flooded cave for more than two weeks began on Sunday and authorities said the first survivor may emerge around 11 hours later, Reuters reported.

China pledges retaliation as US tariffs on $34 billion in Chinese imports take effect, putting the world's two biggest economies on a high-stake road towards all-out trade conflict. 

A man and woman left critically ill in Wiltshire, UK were exposed to novichok, the same nerve agent that nearly killed ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, police said.

British police have declared a “major incident” after two people were exposed to an unknown substance in a town near where a former Russian spy and his daughter were poisoned with nerve agent.

The split within the German center-right has been patched up, but the conventional view is that Chancellor Angela Merkel has emerged weakened.

French gangster is on the run after being sprung from jail by heavily armed gunmen and escaping in a helicopter that landed in the prison grounds, the justice minister said on Sunday.