The Trump administration has issued a permit to energy company TransCanada to build the Keystone XL pipeline. The State Department said it had found the project, which was blocked by former US...
The United Nations said fighting around Syria's capital has cut off 300,000 people from humanitarian assistance and pauses in the conflict are needed to allow aid convoys to get to the area. Fighting...
The top US general in Europe said on Thursday he has seen growing Russian influence on the Afghan Taliban, and raised the possibility that Moscow was helping supply the fighters. Russia has been...
Blast near the Presidential Palace in Mogadishu targeted a security checkpoint with soldiers among the dead. A deadly car bomb blast targeting a security checkpoint near the Presidential Palace in...
An aircraft cabin ban on large electronic devices was prompted by intelligence suggesting a terror threat to US-bound flights, says US media. The US and UK have announced new carry-on restrictions...
At least 26 people have died of starvation in Somalia’s southern region of Jubaland, the government-owned Radio Mogadishu website has reported. It quoted regional interior minister and drought...
Russia is setting up a military base in northwestern Syria in agreement with the Syrian-Kurdish YPG armed group that controls the area and will train fighters, a YPG spokesman said on Monday. The...
Norway is the happiest place on Earth, according to a United Nations agency report – toppling neighbour Denmark from the number one position. The World Happiness Report measures “subjective...
The increasingly brutal nature of fighting in central Congo between the army and local militia is on vivid display in the village of Tshienke, where the bodies of rebel fighters last month were...
The police chief did not respond immediately when contacted by Reuters for comment. Malaysian police are expected to make a few more arrests, including an "important person", in connection with the...
Ghana’s President has come under fire for appointing an “elephant size” government of 110 ministers. Nana Akufo-Addo, who promised to cut superfluous government spending, has hit back at his...
The United States and China will work together to get nuclear-armed North Korea take "a different course", U. S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Saturday, softening previous criticism of...
Tanzania will send 500 doctors to Kenya to help overcome the effects of a strike in public hospitals, the Tanzanian president's office said on Saturday,18th March 2017. Kenya's doctors went on strike...
U. S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived in China on Saturday for what is likely to be a prickly visit, with Beijing angry at being told to rein in nuclear-armed North Korea and Washington...
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is meeting his Chinese counterpart Wang Li in Beijing in the final leg of his East Asia tour, which has been dominated by anxieties over North Korea. On Friday, Mr...
The government of South Sudan is spending its oil revenue on weapons, even as the country descends into a famine largely caused by Juba's military operations, according to a confidential United...
U. S. President Donald Trump says he wants to build dozens of new warships in one of the biggest peace-time expansions of the U.S. Navy. But interviews with ship-builders, unions and a review of...
Government’s decision to issue a three-year bond last week has helped stabilize the cedi marginally on the interbank market. The local currency which has been depreciating sharply since last month...
Fighter jets bomb multiple targets, prompting Syrian retaliation with ground-to-air missiles, Israeli army says. The Israeli army says its aircraft have carried out several strikes inside Syria...
The UN has confirmed the deaths of refugees after reports that 31 Somalis were killed in a helicopter gunship strike on a migrant boat off Yemen. A number of refugees were killed in the incident,...
