Athens / AFP Dozens of asylum seekers set fire to a migrants’ centre on the Greek island of Chios, angry that they were being kept there, a police source said. Some 40 asylum seekers set fire to two large tents set up by humanitarian groups as well as dustbins at the Souda centre, the source said, in protest at ...

  Los Angeles / AFP Hillary Clinton captured the Democratic White House nomination hours before Tuesday’s last major primaries of 2016, according to US delegate counts, taking a monumental step toward becoming America’s first female commander-in-chief. Passing the milestone of 2,383 delegates secures Clinton’s status as the presumptive nominee, and marks a dramatic political resurgence for a highly experienced but ...

  YANGON / AFP A BBC reporter in Myanmar has been jailed for three months with hard labour after being convicted of assaulting a police officer while covering a student protest, his lawyer said on Tuesday. The ruling marks the first time a journalist has been convicted under Myanmar’s new government, run by former political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi. ...