Kim’s Killer ‘was Paid $90’
An Indonesian woman arrested for the murder of the half-brother of North Korea's leader has said she was given 400 Malaysian ringgits ($90) to carry out a prank. Indonesian embassy officials met Siti...
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Kim Killing Suspect ‘was Paid $90’
An Indonesian woman arrested for the murder of the half-brother of North Korea’s leader has said she was given 400 Malaysian ringgits ($90) to carry out a prank. Indonesian embassy officials met...
Kim Killing Suspect Was Paid $90 To Take Part In ‘TV Prank’
An Indonesian woman being held over the assassination of Kim Jong-Nam said Saturday she had been paid just RM400 ($90) for taking part in what she thought was a TV prank show, a senior diplomat...
Don’t Be My Appendage – Akufo-Addo To Police
President Akufo-Addo has charged personnel of the Police Service to remain neutral and Professional in the discharge of their duties. He said he does not want the officers to be appendages of his...
Syria Talks Challenged As Suicide Blasts Kill Dozens
UN efforts to launch a new round of Syria peace talks sputtered Saturday as suicide attacks killed dozens of people, raising the death toll from two days of violence to more than 80. The blasts which...
I Won’t Interfere In Work of Police
The government of Ghana will not meddle in the work of the Ghana Police Service to enable them perform their duties efficiently, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said. According to him,...
US Axes N. Korea Talks After Kim Murder
Planned talks in New York between North Korea and former US officials were canceled following the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un's half brother, US media reported Saturday. The...
Suicide Attacks On Bases In Syria’s Homs Kill 42
Suicide attacks on two security service bases in the heart of Syria's government-held third city of Homs killed 42 people on Saturday, overshadowing peace talks in Geneva, state television and a...
Iran Requests 950 Tonnes of Uranium From Kazakhstan
Iran's nuclear chief said Saturday that the country had asked to buy 950 tonnes of uranium concentrate from Kazakhstan over the next three years to help develop its civil reactor programme. The...
Malaysia Seeks To Reassure Public After Nerve Agent Attack
Malaysian police Saturday told the public they would do everything possible to ensure there was no risk from the lethal VX nerve agent used to assassinate Kim Jong-Nam. People were worried about the...
Senior Myanmar Police Jailed Over Rakhine Border Raids
Three senior Myanmar police officers have been jailed for failing to block deadly raids on border posts in October that threw northern Rakhine state into crisis, a police spokesman said Saturday. The...
Don’t Be My Appendage – Akufo-Addo To Police
President Akufo-Addo has charged personnel of the Police Service to remain neutral and Professional in the discharge of their duties. He said he does not want the officers to be appendages of his...
UN Warns Burundi’s President Over Fourth Term
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is warning Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza against seeking a fourth term, saying such a move risks deepening the crisis in the African country. In a report...
Morocco Urges UN To End Polisario ‘provocation’
Morocco's King Mohammed VI on Friday asked the United Nations to take urgent measures to end "provocation" by the Algeria-backed Polisario Front threatening the ceasefire in the disputed Western...
Nearly 2,500 Migrants Rescued Off the Mediterranean
The migrants were picked up in batches by Italian coast guards between Tuesday and Thursday About 2,500 migrants were rescued off the Mediterranean in the past three days by Italian coast guards....
North Korea Steps Up Sanctions-Busting
North Korea is flouting tougher new UN sanctions with more ingenuous tactics, circumventing trade bans by relying on middlemen and front companies, notably in Malaysia and China, a report by UN...
Iran Complies With Nuclear Deal
Iran is complying with a landmark atomic deal signed with major world powers in 2015, according to a report from the UN nuclear watchdog seen by AFP Friday. The International Atomic Energy Agency's...
Israel To Publish Long-Awaited Report On 2014 Gaza War
A report expected to criticise Israel's prime minister and the armed forces command over their conduct in the runup to the 2014 Gaza war is to be released next week, officials said Friday. State...
Donors Pledge $672 Mn In Aid For Lake Chad Region
Donor countries meeting in Oslo on Friday pledged $672 million (634 million euros) in emergency aid for people threatened by famine in the Lake Chad region, which has been hard hit by Boko Haram,...
UN ‘disturbed’ By Light Sentence For Israeli Soldier
An 18-month prison sentence for an Israeli soldier who shot dead a wounded Palestinian assailant is an "unacceptable" punishment for "an apparent extra-judicial killing", the UN said Friday. United...