An armed faction entered two major Libyan oil ports on Friday, pushing back forces that captured and reopened the terminals in September, officials and residents said. The move risks increasing the...
Former Haitian President Rene Preval, 74, the first leader in Haiti's history to win a democratic election, serve a full term and peacefully hand power to a successor, died on Friday after falling...
More than a week of UN-sponsored peace talks ended in Geneva on Friday, the main opposition group said, calling the results "more positive" than previous rounds. "We are closing this round without...
Cardinal Giuseppe Bertello was received by Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia at the Flagstaff House The Vatican has commended Ghana for her continued efforts to bring peace across the world in...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will travel to Kenya on Sunday for talks with leaders on regional issues, his spokesman said Friday, as South Sudan and Somalia face famine. Somalia is facing...
A UN chemical weapons watchdog is examining allegations of eight toxic gas attacks in Syria since the beginning of this year, according to a report released Friday. The Organization for the...
The Libyan navy said it rescued 115 migrants Friday headed for Europe whose overloaded rubber boat was sinking off the coast near Tripoli, and that another 25 people were missing. "We rescued 115...
The number of migrants rescued at sea this year in operations run by Italy's coastguard topped 15,000 Friday after another 900 people were saved, including eight-month-old Syrian twins and five other...
There was no immediate response from the U. S. delegation to the 47-member state forum in Geneva. A U. N. human rights expert voiced alarm on Friday that U.S. President Donald Trump might allow...
A Jordanian army ambulance pulled up at a makeshift clinic a few hundred metres from a desert border camp where tens of thousands of Syrian refugees are trapped in no man's land. A paramedic...
UN-sponsored Syria peace talks limped towards a close on Friday after more than a week in Geneva with little sign of progress beyond possible agreement on an agenda for more substantial negotiations....
Malaysia released on Friday a North Korean suspect in the murder of the estranged half-brother of North Korea's leader and prepared to deport him, while police issued an arrest warrant for another...
The UN on Friday warned that a range of serious abuses, including torture, appear to remain widespread in Sri Lanka and criticised the country's slow progress in addressing wartime crimes. "A number...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated that his government intends to build very strong diplomatic and economic relations with Qatar, and, indeed, with all the countries of the Gulf, as...
You referred to them as ‘African wax prints,’ but what you may not know is that the fabrics are usually neither made in Africa nor designed by Africans. They are actually European-made textiles...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has stated that his government intends to build a strong diplomatic and economic partnership with Qatar, and, indeed, with all the countries of the Gulf, as...
Russia's ambassador Sergey Kislyak was all smiles as he glad-handed US lawmakers gathered on Capitol Hill to hear President Donald Trump's maiden speech to Congress. Two days later he was at the...
Some 970 migrants were rescued off the coast of Libya on Thursday, Italy's coastguard said, as the numbers attempting to cross the Mediterranean to Europe continue to rise. Even before Thursday's...
Syrian troops backed by Russian jets completed the recapture of the historic city of Palmyra from the Islamic State group Thursday, the Kremlin and the army said, in another blow to the jihadists....
Russia's foreign minister on Thursday pushed an "inclusive national dialogue" in Libya at talks with its UN-backed premier that came after his key rival sought to boost ties with Moscow. "We are...
