Category: Int’l relations

By Zulfiqar Ali and Mark Magnier

NAIROBI, Kenya — The deadly siege at a mall in Nairobi continued Sunday, as the Kenyan government struggled with the question of whether to storm the Shabab militant attackers still holed up inside or keep trying to free people trapped…

President Obama slammed House Republicans for “trying to mess with me” by passing a bill today to fund the government but also defund Obamacare.

Eleven people have died in a gun battle inside a Nairobi shopping centre, says Kenya’s internal security minister. Mutea Iringo said the government was “now fully in charge” of a “very serious situation” and would not relent in the “war…

Syria has begun sending details of its chemical weapons as part of a US-Russia brokered deal to make them safe, the chemical arms watchdog has said. The Hague-based OPCW added that it expected more details from Syria in the coming…

A cell of suspected Islamist militants has opened fire on security forces in Nigeria’s capital Abuja, say officials.

There was a meeting that took place last week in Geneva. A big meeting. An important one.

Bangladesh has made a significant progress on the frontline International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) goals and objectives, and placed the highest importance to people-centric development, said State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Meher Afroze. 

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said he is committed to a plan to destroy his country’s chemical weapons, but warned it could take about a year.

Egyptian security forces have fought gun battles in a town near Cairo after launching an operation targeting “criminal and terrorist hotbeds”.

Syria has given Russia new “material evidence” that Syrian rebels used chemical weapons in an attack on 21 August, a Russian minister has said.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has called off a state visit to Washington next month in a row over allegations of US espionage.

Russia and France’s foreign ministers have disagreed over who is to blame for the chemical weapons attack in Syria.

A primary school teacher has spoken about how her colleagues helped deliver her son at the school where she works.

While the US, UK and France pushed for intervention in Syria and Russia noisily blocked them at every turn, China was in the background, saying very little. As Kerry Brown of the University of Sydney argues, today’s Chinese diplomats are…

There is “convincing evidence” that sarin gas was used in a rocket attack in the Syrian capital, Damascus, last month, a UN report is to confirm.

South Korean troops have shot dead a man trying to swim across a border river into the North, officials say.

Egyptian troops have stormed the central town of Dalga, which has been held by Islamists loyal to the ousted president, Mohammed Morsi. Army and police backed by helicopters entered the town early on Monday.