Turkey Since Attempted Coup
A year ago, a faction in the Turkish army staged a failed coup bid against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, prompting a widespread crackdown on his opponents. The country was shaken and 249 people...
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Avi Gabbay Elected Head of Israel’s Labour
Israel's main opposition Labour party voted in former businessman Avi Gabbay as its new leader Monday, said the party as it seeks to regain waning influence and win back supporters. Gabbay, who only...
Ku Klux Klan Fails To Capitalize On Far-Right US Resurgence
Even if the US extreme right and white nationalism are enjoying a revival under President Donald Trump, the Ku Klux Klan -- which rallied in Virginia last weekend -- is a mere shadow of its...
Indian Man Pleads Guilty To Financing Qaeda Imam Awlaki
One of four men arrested for sending thousands of dollars to the late Al-Qaeda propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki pleaded guilty Monday to supporting terrorists and plotting to kill the US judge in the...
Israel’s Opposition Labour Seeks Renewal With Leadership Vote
Israel's main opposition Labour party voted for a new leader Monday as it seeks to regain waning influence and win back supporters who have drifted toward centrist and right-wing candidates. The...
Patients Turned Away As Pantang Hospital Staff Strike
Dozens of patients who reported at the Pantang Hospital on Monday, July 10, were turned away as the staff of the facility embarked on a sit-down strike. Some of the patients were left helpless as...
Adwoa Safo Urged To Apologise Over Community Day SHS Claims
Member of Parliament for Dome-Kwabenya Constituency Sarah Adwoa Safo has been urged to do the honourable by apologizing for her claims over the building of a community day senior high school in her...
Sudan Hopes Trump Takes ‘courageous’ Decision To Lift Sanctions
Hopes are running high in Sudan that US President Donald Trump will decide this week to lift Washington's sanctions on Khartoum, despite rights groups calling for the decades-old embargo to be...
PNG Election Flawed But Acceptable
Despite being marred by violence, vote-buying and flaws in the electoral roll, results from Papua New Guinea's sprawling election should reflect the will of the people, observers said Monday....
World Jihad’s Low-Profile Boss
Discreet in his youth and invisible as the world's most wanted man, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi rose through the ranks quietly and patiently to become global jihad's undisputed supremo. The reclusive...
Mosul Loss Huge, But Not Deadly, Blow To ‘caliphate’
Mosul was the largest city in the "caliphate" proclaimed by the Islamic State group and its loss is a huge blow to the jihadists' statehood experiment -- but not a fatal one. The northern Iraqi city...
Turkish Opposition Chief To Hold Mass Rally After ‘justice’ March
The leader of Turkey's main opposition party was on Sunday to address a mass rally in Istanbul at the culmination of an almost month-long march, in a rare challenge to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan....
Harden’s Rockets Extension Reportedly Richest Ever In NBA
The Houston Rockets inked James Harden to a contract extension worth a reported $228 million on Saturday. The Houston Chronicle reported the exact value of the deal, which will keep Harden under...
Stormy G20 Ends With Opt-Outs For Trump On Climate, Trade
World leaders made concessions on trade and climate language to Donald Trump Saturday at the end of the most fractious and riot-hit G20 summit ever, in exchange for preserving a fragile unity of the...
Putin Warns Against ‘losing Cool’ On North Korea
Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday underlined the importance of staying calm in the North Korea crisis, saying nuclear-armed Pyongyang should be dealt with in a "pragmatic" manner. "The North...
Kohli Leads India To Series Win Over West Indies
Virat Kohli stroked a commanding, unbeaten 111 to lead India to a series-clinching eight-wicket win over the West Indies in the fifth and final one-day international at Sabina Park on Thursday....
Van Niekerk Storms 400m, Gatlin Victorious
World record holder Wayde van Niekerk stormed to victory in the 400m at the Diamond League meet at Lausanne on Thursday, as American veteran Justin Gatlin went sub-10sec for the 100m. Van Niekerk is...
France Plans Ban On Petrol Cars By 2040
France is set to ban the sale of any car that uses petrol or diesel fuel by 2040, in what the ecology minister called a “revolution”. Nicolas Hulot announced the planned ban on fossil fuel...
Trump Calls On the World To Act Against North Korea
President Donald Trump on Thursday called North Korea's intercontinental ballistic missile test 'very, very bad behavior' and said that there would be 'consequences' for Pyongyang's belligerence....
N.Korea Says
Pyongyang warned it would be a "piece of cake" to destroy "gangster" South Korea, state media reported Thursday, as it raged against Seoul for a joint missile drill with the US following its landmark...