RFI | Indonesia's former army chief Wiranto stabbed by unknown attacker

Indonesia's minister for Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs, Wiranto was stabbed on Thursday in Banten. The...

RFI | India abolishes special status for Kashmir through presidential decree

India has abolished the special status for disputed Kashmir through a presidential decree, hours after imposing a major security clampdown i...

RFI | China to broach publically Hong Kong crisis

China's Hong Kong liaison body has scheduled a rare press conference to talk about the anti-extradition demonstrations in the Special Ad...

RFI | North Korea rolls out the red carpet for China’s Xi Jinping

With his visit to Pyongyang, China’s president Xi Jinping becomes the highest ever state leader received on home ground by Kim Jong-Un. It i...

RFI | London demonstrators vent anger over Hong Kong extradition proposals [Images]

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam apologised Tuesday for the political unrest that has shaken Hong Kong, but the pro-Beijing chief executive refus...

RFI | Hong Kong apologizes to protesters, hints extradition bill won’t be revived

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam apologized for the China extradition bill on Tuesday after nearly two million of Hong Kongers filled th...

RFI | Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong leaves jail, vows to join protests

Leading Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong walked free from prison on Monday and vowed to join the anti-government protests which have...

RFI | Hong Kong government suspends controversial extradition bill

Hong Kong's pro-Beijing leader Carrie Lam has said the government will indefinitely suspend a divisive bill that would allow extradition...

RFI | Dozens dead in India’s prolonged heatwave as rains delayed

One of India’s longest and most extreme heat waves in years has claimed at least 36 lives since it began in May. The mercury has spiked abov...

RFI | Five suspects in Sri Lanka Easter bombings extradited from Saudi Arabia

Five Sri Lankan suspects have been repatriated from Saudi Arabia over links to the Easter Sunday bombings in Colombo that killed some 250 pe...

RFI | More violence in Hong Kong over extradition protests

Violent clashes have erupted again in Hong Kong as police used tear gas, pepper spray and batons against demonstrators who were trying to re...

RFI | Hong Kong protesters urged to disperse

A top Hong Kong administrator on Wednesday urged thousands of protestors  blocking roads around Hong Kong's parliament to disperse and o...

RFI | REPORT - Liberals fear Modi threatens India's secular tradition

Liberals in India fear that a second term for Prime Minister Narendra Modi might prompt a decisive turn against the country’s secular tradit...

RFI | Living as a Muslim in the India of Narendra Modi's BJP

Riding on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity and a wave of nationalism, the right-wing Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party or BJP was voted ...

RFI | Spain, France already back China extradition principles

China on Monday strongly backed the Hong Kong government on a controversial proposed law that would allow extraditions to the mainland, and ...

RFI | Hong Kong leader pushes ahead with extradition bill despite protests

Hong Kong’s leader of government vowed on Monday to proceed with a controversial law allowing extraditions to the Chinese mainland, despite ...

RFI | Huge Hong Kong protest against China extradition law

Hong Kong has witnessed the largest protest since the city's 1997 handover to China as huge crowds protested against plans to allow extr...

RFI | Spain sends 94 Taiwanese phone fraud suspects to China - not Taiwan

Some 94 Taiwanese who allegedly committed online and telephone fraud in Spain have been extradited to Beijing on Friday, the fruit of Chines...

RFI | No relief in sight as extreme heatwave sweeps India

India is suffering excruciating summer temperatures with almost half the country already on heat wave alert. The mercury hit 50.6°C in the d...

RFI | Australian Cardinal George Pell appeals paedophilia conviction

Cardinal George Pell has appeared in court in Melbourne, Australia, in an effort to overturn his child sex abuse conviction. He was sentence...