Militants attacked two military bases in northeastern Congo on Monday, killing a UN peacekeeper and injuring a dozen others, the UN mission and the army said. The attack took place in Beni where UN soldiers have been battling the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), which is a Ugandan Islamist group acti
Turkey hoped on Monday that Washington would go back on its decision to suspend most visa services to Turkish citizens following a spat with Ankara. The row erupted when a Turkish employee of the US consulate in Istanbul was arrested last week. Turkey’s Justice Minister said on Monday that the decis
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared on Sunday that his nuclear weapons guaranteed the sovereignty of his country, state media reported. North Korea’s nuclear weapons are a “powerful deterrent firmly safeguarding the peace and security in the Korean peninsula and Northeast Asia,” Kim said, refer
Thousands of people staged demonstrations in Barcelona to protest against the Catalan government’s push for independence from Spain as Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy vowed to stand against the move for secession. In an interview with the Spanish newspaper El Pais published Sunday, Rajoy said tha
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz concluded on Sunday his official visit to Russia, thanking in a cable President Vladimir Putin for the warm reception, reported the Saudi Press Agency (SPA). He said: “I leave your friendly country by offering my greatest gratitude for the
They couldn’t award it to Kim Jong Un or Donald Trump. That much was certain. But the granting of the Nobel Peace Prize to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons opened itself to a clear interpretation across Asia: When it comes to the nuclear-saturated war of words on the Korea
Libyan authorities have recovered the bodies of 21 Coptic Christian workers, mostly Egyptians, beheaded in 2015 by ISIS in the coastal city of Sirte. Sadiq Al-Sour, head of investigations for the Attorney General’s office, said last week that Libyan authorities had arrested a senior ISIS commander w
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that Turkey and Syrian rebel groups it backs are starting a military operation in Syria’s Idlib province with the aim of pushing out militants from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) that control the region. Idlib and surrounding areas of northwest Syria
Around 120 ISIS militants and almost 60 foreign mercenaries were killed following a series of Russian air strikes in Syria over the past 24 hours, the defence ministry in Moscow said on Saturday. The ministry also confirmed the death of three senior ISIS commanders including Omar al-Shishani as a re
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced it had granted Alphabet Inc. the green light to use solar power balloons to bring cellular service to Puerto Rico, which has struggled to regain communications services since Hurricane Maria hit last month. The FCC said on Friday that 83 perce
An undercover FBI agent helped thwart a terrorist plot to attack targets including New York’s subway, Times Square and concert venues, authorities announced in unsealing the charges Friday. Three people have been charged with involvement in the planned attacks, which were to be carried out in
Nate strengthened into a hurricane status on Saturday as it barreled toward popular Mexican beach resorts and headed for the US Gulf Coast after showering Central America with heavy rains that left at least 28 people dead. President Donald Trump had approved the release of federal aid to help mitiga
Moscow- The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz held talks on Thursday with the Russian Premier Dmitry Medvedev, said the Saudi state-owned news agency (SPA). Immediately after the arrival of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques to the venue, he was received by the Russian p
The United States is preparing to lift decades-old economic sanctions against Sudan, citing improvement on human rights and progress on counter-terrorism, a US official said on Thursday. A Reuters report said that President Donald Trump’s administration is expected to announce its decision as early
Former British prime minister David Cameron has been appointed to his first high profile commercial role, Reuters reported on Friday. Cameron’s appointment comes amid a recent swirl of merger activity in the industry, including US credit card processor Vantiv’s acquisition of top UK payment company
Thousands of Rohingya Muslims continue to flee from Myanmar to Bangladesh and the United Nations is bracing for a possible “further exodus”, the UN humanitarian aid chief said on Friday. Around 515,000 Rohingya have arrived in Bangladesh from Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine in six weeks since the
US President Donald Trump is planning to decertify the international deal that was negotiated by his predecessor to curb Iran’s nuclear program, paving the way for potentially reopening sanctions, media reports said Friday. Trump will argue that the deal is not in the interest of the US, the Washing
Nuclear disarmament group ICAN won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its decade-long campaign to rid the world of the atomic bomb. The International Coalition to Abolish Nuclear Weapons “is receiving the award for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences
Tropical Storm Nate has killed at least 22 people in Central America on Thursday as it pummeled the region with torrential rains. The deadly storm forced thousands from their homes and caused destruction to bridges, trees, and roads while heading toward Mexico’s Caribbean resorts and the US Gulf Coa
French Defense Minister Florence Parly said Friday that the battle to flush ISIS militants of their last holdouts in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa could drag on for “weeks.” “It’s probably a question of weeks,” Parly told France Inter radio. “It’s a slow, diff
