politics
Has the US Apologised Yet? (1)
It is no news that some top public officials of the United States of America (US) respect no other country, not even...
Get Health Care Reform Done Before Vacation
President Donald Trump prodded US lawmakers Monday to pass an unpopular health care reform bill before Congress goes on...
Tillerson Looks To Defuse Qatar Crisis On Gulf Tour
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrives Monday in Kuwait, the key mediator between Qatar and its Arab neighbours,...
Beijing Says US Apologises For ‘Republic of China’ Gaffe
China said Monday the United States apologised after Beijing officially protested a White House statement that...
Grenade Kills Eight In Northern Burundi Bar
A hand grenade blast killed at least eight people and wounded about 60 others in a bar at Shinya in northern Burundi,...
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...
Palestinian Attempts Car-Ramming Attack, Shot Dead
A Palestinian attempted a car-ramming and knife attack against Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank on Monday and...
ICU Raises Red Flag Over Politicisation of NLC
General Secretary of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU), Solomon Kotei, has said “the position of the...
Somalia Internet Outage Is ‘major Disaster’
Somalia’s government says an ongoing internet outage is costing the country $10m (£7.7m) each day. The outage...
Zambian Opposition Rails Against Emergency Powers
Zambia's main opposition party on Monday accused President Edgar Lungu of endangering the country's democracy and...
Iraqi Forces Push To Clear Last Pockets of IS In Mosul
Iraqi forces fought to eliminate the last pockets of Islamic State group resistance in Mosul on Monday after the...
Trump Son Met Russian Who Promised Damaging Material On Clinton
US President Donald Trump’s son has admitted meeting a Russian lawyer last year who, he says, promised to reveal...
Martial Arts Expert Sworn In As Mongolian President
Mongolian businessman and martial arts expert Khaltmaa Battulga was sworn in as president Monday, vowing to revive the...
Israel Minister In Rare West Bank Visit For Electricity Deal
Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz made a rare appearance by a high-ranking Israeli official in the occupied West Bank on...
Trump Son ‘met Kremlin-Linked Lawyer’ During Election Campaign
US President Donald Trump said Sunday he wanted to work "constructively" with Russia despite confronting Vladimir Putin...
Sri Lanka Monks Vow To Resist Deal With Tamil Minority
Sri Lanka's hardline monks on Monday broadened a growing campaign by the Buddhist clergy against the government,...
Iraqi Forces Fight To Clear Last Jihadists From Mosul
Iraqi forces engaged in "heavy" fighting with the Islamic State group on Monday as they battled to clear the last...
Bomb Kills Police Chief, Guard In Southwest Pakistan
A bomb Monday killed a police chief and his guard, and wounded 11 others in a southwestern Pakistani town bordering...
AGI, IEAG Oppose 3% Flat VAT Rate
The 7th floor of the Job 600 (West Wing) of Parliament became the centre of attraction when the Finance Committee of...