Far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen refused on Tuesday to wear a head scarf to meet with Lebanon's top Sunni Muslim cleric. When she arrived at Sheikh Abdellatif Deryan's office in...
Since the start of Syria's war in 2011, several diplomatic initiatives have stumbled over the future of President Bashar al-Assad. Here is a recap: In January 2012, two months after an initial bid to...
French President Francois Hollande called Tuesday on Britain to "accept its responsibility" to take in stranded under-age migrants stuck in France who wish to join up with family in the UK. The issue...
Dubai authorities are grappling with new ways of keeping the emirate's skies safe after drones halted air traffic at one of the world's busiest airports three times last year. The delays were...
HSBC has reported a 62% fall in annual pre-tax profit for 2016. The $7.1bn (£5.7bn) figure compares with $18.9bn a year earlier, and is well short of the $14.4bn analysts had been expecting. The...
Shares in HSBC have fallen after the bank saw a sharper-than-expected drop in annual profits for 2016. The $7.1bn (£5.7bn) pre-tax profit is 62% lower than the $18.9bn reported a year earlier. HSBC...
US Vice President Mike Pence backed up President Donald Trump's latest attacks on the news media, vowing Monday that he and Trump would continue to "call out the media when they play fast and loose...
HSBC said Tuesday that net profit fell 82 percent in 2016, calling it a period remembered for its "largely unexpected economic and political events", while it warned of further uncertainty this year....
South Sudan, where the government on Monday declared famine in some parts of the country, is mired in an economic crisis due to a devastating civil war. Independent since 2011, the world's newest...
US Vice President Mike Pence said Monday he was disappointed that Michael Flynn gave him "inaccurate" information about his contacts with Russia before he resigned as national security adviser. But...
The Spanish outposts of Ceuta and Melilla in northern Morocco, which have the European Union's only land borders with Africa, are tempting launch pads for clandestine immigration to continental...
The US Vice-President, Mike Pence, has said the US under President Trump remains committed to co-operation and partnership with the European Union. Mr Pence, speaking in Brussels, sought to reassure...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Algeria from Monday to press efforts to get North African countries to reduce the flow of migrants across the Mediterranean into Europe. Merkel, who last week...
One early morning last week, Adam's fellow migrants managed to climb over the high border fence separating Morocco from the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. Adam, a 17-year-old from Guinea, failed and...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is on a two-day visit to Algeria starting Monday. She is scheduled to hold talks with President Abdelaziz Boutef. The topics to be discussed at this meeting are mainly...
France's far-right leader and presidential candidate Marine Le Pen on Monday met for the first time with a foreign head of state, holding talks in Beirut with Lebanon's President Michel Aoun. "We...
Some 300 migrants stormed the border between Morocco and Spain at Ceuta on Monday, authorities said, days after hundreds more forced their way over the frontier. The young migrants climbed over the...
U. S. food company Kraft Heinz Co (KHC.O) withdrew its proposal for a $143-billion merger with larger rival Unilever Plc (ULVR.L), the companies said on Sunday, raising questions about whether Kraft...
US Vice President Mike Pence meets EU and NATO leaders Monday at the end of a European trip aimed at reassuring allies worried that President Donald Trump might abandon them. Upon arrival in Brussels...
FEATURE: Appiah Kusi Adomako, CUTS Ghana Every government since the start of the Fourth Republic has identified the private sector as an engine for inclusive economic growth. Data from the Ghana...
