UN approves resolution to dispatch unarmed police to Burundi
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has adopted a resolution that allows the deployment of unarmed UN police to Burundi...
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Obama, Xi agree to implement N Korea sanctions
US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping have agreed to fully implement sanctions against North Korea, according to...
South Africa’s Jacob Zuma ‘sorry’ over Nkandla scandal
President Jacob Zuma has apologised to South Africans in an effort to end a long-running scandal over improper state spending...
New Central African Republic sex abuse allegations sickening: UN
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Zeid al-Hussein has termed as "sickening" the latest allegations of bestiality and...
Uganda, N Korea Defy UN On Military Cooperation
H.E Myong Kyong Chol, Ambassador of the Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea (DPRK) to Uganda has said that his country...
Central African Republic abuse: UN looks into ‘bestiality’ report
UN officials say they are investigating "extremely troubling" claims of sexual abuse by peacekeepers in the Central African Republic (CAR)....
Tanzania’s President Magufuli ‘to slash’ civil servant salaries
Tanzanian President John Magufuli has promised to slash the salaries of senior civil servants, cutting the top wage threshold by...
16 killed as army, rebels clash in eastern DRC
More than a dozen people have lost their lives in three days of clashes between the army and rebels in...
UN Helicopter Attacks ADF Camps In DRC
The operation was done under joint cooperation between MONUSCO and the Congolese troops in the first of a series of...
EgyptAir hijack: Man held after using fake suicide belt
An Egyptian hijacker who forced a domestic flight to land in Cyprus used a fake suicide belt, officials said. His...
Egypt jet with 55 people aboard hijacked
An Egypt Air domestic flight from Alexandria to Cairo has been hijacked and landed in Cyprus's Larnaca airport, state radio...
Ajman fire: Huge blaze hits UAE residential towers
A large fire has hit at least two residential towers in the United Arab Emirates, in the third such incident...
Korean Jurists Committee Slams U.S Over Harsh Sanctions
The Korean Jurists Committee has criticized the U.S and its followers for slapping ‘unilateral’ sanctions against the Democratic Peoples’ Republic...
Somali forces kill ‘more than 100’ al-Shabab fighters
At least 115 fighters of the militant Islamist group al-Shabab have been killed in heavy fighting with pro-government forces in...
Cuba ‘has no need of gifts from the empire’ — Fidel Castro
Havana - Cuba's Fidel Castro signaled continued resistance to rapprochement between Washington and Havana, writing in an opinion piece on...
Algeria military helicopter crash in Tamanrasset region
A military helicopter has crashed in southern Algeria, killing 12 soldiers, the defence ministry has said. The Russian-made Mi-171 came...
Boko Haram abducts 16 women in northeast Nigeria
Suspected Boko Haram Takfiri terrorists have kidnapped 16 women in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Adamawa, local officials say. Police said they...
Brussels attacks: ‘Two brothers’ behind airport suicide bombings
Two suicide bombers who attacked the international airport in Brussels have been named by Belgian media as the brothers Khalid...
A Salute to the Wheel
It’s fair to say that when an advertisement describes a septic tank as “the best invention since the wheel,” we’ve...
Brussels Zaventem airport blasts cause casualties
Two blasts have struck the departures area of Zaventem airport in Brussels. The Belgian government has confirmed casualties but has...