Tag: Social Issues

The Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) program has been extended to benefit 350,000 households captured under the extreme poverty index, ...

Thousands of migrants have been saved from the sea near Libya during one of the busiest weekends of the year ...

US President Donald Trump on Sunday hit back at nationwide protests calling for him to release his tax returns, questioning ...

A court in Cairo on Sunday acquitted a US-Egyptian charity worker imprisoned for nearly three years in a case that ...

French President Francois Hollande has given citizenship to 28 Africans who fought for France in World War Two and other ...

Drunk soldiers "went on a rampage" and fired shots in the air at an Australian asylum-seeker camp in Papua New ...

Long overshadowed by the more numerous and vocal Turkish "guest worker" community, Mozambicans who arrived in Germany decades ago still ...

Putting a prisoner to death "stays with you for a long time," says Ron McAndrew. The former warden of Florida ...

The Italian coastguard and other boats rescued some 3,000 migrants from unseaworthy boats off the Libyan coast on Saturday, as ...

A US federal judge on Saturday blocked a plan by the southern state of Arkansas to execute a series of ...

Arkansas's plans to execute eight prisoners in just 10 days faced new setbacks Friday, after a judge blocked use of ...

Activists feared Friday for the safety of a young Saudi woman they say was returned to the kingdom against her ...

Iranian hardline cleric Ebrahim Raisi registered on Friday to run for next month's presidential election, state television showed. The 56-year-old ...

Iranian hardline cleric Ebrahim Raisi registered on Friday to run for next month's presidential election, state television showed. The 56-year-old ...

Rescue vessels in the Mediterranean worked flat out Friday to rescue over 2,000 people from flimsy dinghies as exhausted saviours ...

Iranian human rights activist Darya Safai on Friday demanded sports sanctions against her country as punishment for banning women from ...

At least 97 migrants were missing after their boat sank on Thursday off the Libyan coast, a navy spokesman said. ...

Leaders at the Kokomba yam market inside Agbogbloshie, a suburb of Accra, have expressed disagreement with comments by the Inspector ...

Fresh disturbances erupted yesterday at Agbogbloshie, Accra hours after calm was restored, following violent clashes between the Dagomba and the ...

New Zealand Rugby (NZR) compared the vitriol surrounding Sonny Bill Williams' religious objections to wearing a banking logo with homophobia ...