This Sunday, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud made history as the first person to be elected president twice in Somalia’s nascent democracy after a landslide vic…
Four key climate change indicators all set new record highs in 2021, the United Nations has said, warning that the global energy system was driving hu…
The national emergency service said the explosion in the northern city led to the collapse of a building and the deaths.Nine people were killed after …
UN chief Antonio Guterres has warned Ukraine War will worsen food, energy and economic crises in poor countries.The United Nations chief, Antonio Gute…
Washington, DC – Hundreds of Palestinian rights supporters and press freedom advocates have gathered in Washington, DC to pay tribute and demand justi…
Impoverished North Korea has reported more than 1.7 million cases of ‘fever’ in just a few days amid rising concern over the outbreak’s effect.North K…
The withdrawal of US forces and military contractors last year has been touted as “the single most important factor” in triggering the collapse of the…
Average new home prices in 70 major cities fall 0.2 percent on a month-on-month basis after flatlining in March.China’s new home prices in April fell …
Walsapugala, Sri Lanka – Mahinda Samarawickrema, 49, will not be planting paddy this season.After a government ban on chemical fertilisers cut his yie…
Boeing 737-800 plunged inexplicably from its cruising altitude into the ground in March, killing all 132 people on board.US investigators believe some…
World’s No 3 economy shrinks at an annualised rate of 1 percent in January-March from the previous quarter.Japan’s economy shrank for the first time i…
Taipei, Taiwan – A fatal shooting at a Taiwanese-American church in southern California, which authorities said was motivated by the gunman’s hatred f…
Washington, DC – Palestinian rights advocates have raised the alarm over US plans to remove a violent, far-right Israeli group from Washington’s list …
Washington, DC – The United States has become the first country in the world to surpass one million deaths from COVID-19.The nation hit the tragic mar…
The United States government is moving to ease a few economic sanctions on Venezuela in a gesture meant to encourage resumed negotiations between the …
French president urges Israel to swiftly complete probe into killing of Al Jazeera journalist, despite UN calls for an independent investigation.Frenc…
Russians lined up in a Moscow train station on Tuesday for what may be their last Big Mac from one of the few McDonald’s restaurants still open in the…
The Allied Democratic Forces, which began as an uprising in Uganda but has been based in Congo since the late 1990s, pledged allegiance to ISIL (ISIS)…
Russia’s parliament will consider banning the exchange of Russian prisoners of war for captured members of Ukraine’s Azov regiment, the speaker has sa…
Top EU diplomat Josep Borrell says bloc set to approve another 500 million euros ($527m) in military aid for Ukraine.European Union defence ministers …
“Are you an Egyptian superhero?” asks a young Egyptian girl in Cairo in Disney’s latest Marvel offering, Moon Knight. “I am” answers Layla El-Faouly, …
The disagreements between parliament and the president centre around the immunity of opposition leader and lawmaker Domingos Simoes Pereira who lost t…
Walid al-Sharif’s funeral was attacked just days after an Israeli attack on journalist Shireen Abu Akleh’s funeral.More than 70 Palestinians were inju…
Fighting in the northern region of Tigray has eased since a unilateral ceasefire was declared by the federal government.Ethiopia and the World Bank ha…
Jerusalem – At a cafe in central Jerusalem, a middle-aged couple, Leonid from Belarus and Olga from Dagestan, discussed the war in Ukraine over coffee…
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says delegations from the two countries bidding for NATO ‘shouldn’t bother’ coming to Ankara for discussions.President …
North Korea has reported another large jump in illnesses believed to be COVID-19 as the government mobilised a “powerful force” of soldiers to distrib…
Alleged woman attacker arrested two weeks after female suicide bomber blew herself up in Karachi, killing three Chinese teachers and a Pakistani drive…
Chinese shipyards that are at the heart of Beijing’s drive to modernise its navy are also seeing orders and technology transfer worth billions of doll…
Ukraine’s deputy defence minister says efforts continue to rescue the remaining troops inside Mariupol’s Azovstal steel plant after more than 260 sold…
Dozens of protests have taken place across the globe after Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by Israeli forces on May 11.De…
Labour’s shadow minister for the Middle East and North Africa has joined other members of parliament in calling for the UK government to demand an ind…
US says measures, including loosening curbs on family remittances and travel, aim to ‘support Cuban people’.The administration of United States Presid…
Congresswoman says measure aims to recognise forced displacement of Palestinians during establishment of Israeli state.Washington, DC – US Congresswom…
Ukrainian defence official says missions are underway to evacuate remaining soldiers from besieged steel works.More than 260 Ukrainian soldiers have b…
The war in Ukraine’s interruption to wheat, barley, sunflower oil and other staples has raised already high global food prices.United States Treasury …
President Emmanuel Macron has named Labour Minister Elisabeth Borne as prime minister to lead his ambitious reform plans, the first woman to head the …
Beirut, Lebanon – The Lebanese movement Hezbollah and its allies could suffer setbacks in the parliamentary elections, according to partial results, w…
Police say 30,506 arrests carried out in less than two months since ‘state of exception’ invoked after deadly violence.More than 30,000 people have be…
JetBlue Airways Corp. made a hostile $3.3 billion cash bid for Spirit Airlines Inc., appealing directly to shareholders in an effort to prevail over a…
Dozens of Chadian policemen are patrolling the streets of the capital N’Djamena after using tear gas to disperse students protesting against the prese…
As forensic investigators in Ukraine uncover evidence of killings that may amount to war crimes, experts of a different kind are at work to document t…
Nearly one in 25 people in a county in the Uighur heartland of China has been sentenced to prison on terrorism-related charges in what is the highest …
If confirmed, it would suggest a counteroffensive by Ukrainian soldiers is having increasing success in expelling Russian forces from the northeast.Uk…
