Cuban President Raul Castro says the country will not return to the Organization of American States (OAS) in a show of solidarity with Venezuela.OAS Secretary General Luis Almargo has called for sanctions against Venezuela.At a summit of Caribbean countries in…
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls says the death toll from the flooding across the country has risen to four while 24 people have been injured. He didn’t give any more details about the additional death, which brings the total death…
Egypt has put on trial the head of the journalists union and two board members for spreading false news and harboring reporters wanted by authorities. Union head Yahya Qalash and board members Khaled el-Balshy and Gamal Abdel-Rahim showed up at…
Dhaka-Iraqi officials say bombings targeting a police checkpoint, a restaurant and two markets have killed 15 people and wounded more than 40 in and around Baghdad.
Syrian troops have reached the edge of the northern province of Raqqa, home to the de facto capital of the Islamic State group’s self-styled caliphate.
WASHINGTON — The federal judge who’s hearing a Trump University lawsuit is “a hater of Donald Trump” and ought to be removed from the case. So says Donald Trump, in just one of the recent comments by the presumptive Republican…
Yemeni medical officials say 11 civilians – including 10 women and one girl – were killed and dozens were wounded when rockets hit a busy market in the western city of Taiz. The officials say that the rockets were fired…
A group of protesters attacked Donald Trump supporters who were leaving the presidential candidate’s rally in San Jose on Thursday night. A dozen or more people were punched, at least one person was pelted with an egg and Trump hats…
French officials say that the Seine River is still rising in Paris as France’s unseasonable spate of rainfall begins to taper off. Traffic in the capital was snarled as flooding choked roads and several Paris railway stations were shut. The…
Dhaka-Pakistan’s state media says a former minister for religious affairs has been given a 16-year prison sentence for taking kickbacks while hiring accommodation for Pakistani pilgrims during the 2009 hajj to Saudi Arabia.
More than 110 bodies were pulled from the sea off Libya’s shores Friday after a smuggling boat carrying mainly African migrants sank into the Mediterranean, and a separate massive search-and-rescue operation in the open sea saved 340 people and recovered…
Yemeni medical officials say 11 civilians – including 10 women and one girl – were killed and dozens were wounded when rockets hit a busy market in the western city of Taiz.
US House Speaker Paul Ryan says he will vote for the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in this year’s election, despite their differences.Mr Ryan wrote in a column “we have more common ground than disagreement”.It is the latest sign Republicans…
The eighth international forum on nuclear energy- ATOMEXPO 2016, organized by Russia’s state nuclear energy corporation- ROSATOM in Moscow concluded yesterday, June 1, 2016.
The US, UK and France have urged the UN to begin air drops of humanitarian aid to besieged areas in Syria.They said the Syrian government had failed to respect the 1 June deadline for widespread aid distribution agreed by world…
North Korea has attempted to fire a ballistic missile off its east coast but the launch appears to have failed, South Korean military officials say.It is unclear what type of missile it was, but it follows three failed tests of…
Riyadh (AP/UNB) – Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said Sunday that Iran must stop meddling in Iraq and that the presence of Iranian military units there is “unacceptable.” His comments come as thousands of Iraqi Shiite militiamen, soldiers and…
Dhaka – The chief negotiator of Syria’s main opposition umbrella group, Mohammed Alloush, has resigned over what he called the failure of peace talks. Mr Alloush, from the High Negotiations Committee (HNC), said the talks had not brought a political…
BAMAKO — The United Nations mission in Mali says at least five Togolese peacekeepers have been killed in an attack by extremists in central Mali.
Illegal immigrants in the US often get better care than the nation’s military veterans, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has said.”We’re not going to allow that to happen any longer,” he told a bikers’ rally in Washington DC.Mr Trump did…
Iraqi government forces have made gains in their offensive to drive Islamic State militants from Falluja – one the country’s two major cities in IS hands.The nearby town of Karma, the first line of IS defence, is now in the…
Dhaka-U.S.-led coalition airstrikes and Turkish artillery fire against the Islamic State group in Syria have killed 104 militants, the Turkish military said Saturday.
Supporters and opponents of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump have clashed in the city of San Diego in California.Police declared a gathering outside the city’s convention centre unlawful and made 35 arrests, as stones and water bottles were thrown.Mr Trump…
Shima (AP/UNB) — The leaders of the Group of Seven rich economies ended a summit Friday by issuing an action plan for countering terrorism and other risks to peace and global growth, including the massive flows of refugees and migrants…
By Mitchell Blatt Presumptive Republican nominee for president Donald Trump gets credit from his supporters–and even some of his detractors–for being “politically incorrect,” but now it looks like he is backing down from his controversial statements in the face of…
Navy divers and other rescuers searched Friday for two foreigners still missing after a speedboat packed with tourists capsized near the popular island resort of Koh Samui that left a British and a German woman dead, officials said.The boat, carrying…
Workers at French nuclear power stations are due to down tools on Thursday amid growing industrial action over controversial labour reforms.The CGT union said staff at 16 of France’s 19 nuclear plants had voted for a one-day strike.The government said…
Japanese PM Shinzo Abe has taken world leaders to the Shinto religion’s holiest site, as the Group of Seven (G7) summit begins in the country. Mr Abe said the visit was so that they could “understand the spirituality of Japanese…
President Barack Obama said Wednesday he plans to use his historic visit to Hiroshima with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to reflect on the suffering of war and the need to take steps to prevent it. Abe said he had…
The Afghan Taliban have announced a new leader to replace Mullah Akhtar Mansour who was killed in a US drone strike.In a statement, the Taliban acknowledged Mansour’s death for the first time and named his successor as Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada.Analysts…