INTERNATIONAL NEWS

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.

Over 500 women were arrested in Washington, DC on Thursday during a protest against the United States’ government’s zero-intolerance immigration policy, Reuters reported.

Ankara will not stop trading in oil with Iran by November 4, despite US sanctions.

Prime minister says restoring national service will inspire patriotism and social cohesion

The United Nations’ highest court is to begin hearing an urgent case brought by Qatar against the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which Doha accuses of “human rights violations” amid a Saudi-led boycott of the country.

U.S. national security adviser John Bolton is due to arrive in Moscow for talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov amid expectations he will lay the ground for a July summit between President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.

As Beijing and Washington veer towards a full-blown trade war, American brands in China face what may be an even bigger threat: local rivals armed with innovative products and the Chinese government’s blessing.