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Rarely do ambassadors resign after an intense self-assessment of worth. Diplomatic immunity does not merely extend to protecting the official…
A Guatemalan woman whose infant daughter died after being held by US immigration authorities denounced the “cruelty” of the country’s…
Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps boats attempted to seize a British oil tanker in the Persian Gulf, CNN reported, amid…
Top US and Chinese negotiators held phone talks on Tuesday as the world’s top two economies seek to resolve their…
American financier Jeffrey Epstein pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges of sex trafficking as prosecutors accused him of luring…
A strong, magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck off Indonesia on Sunday, the US Geological Survey reported, triggering a tsunami warning and…
The Arab Organisation for Human Rights (AOHR) has accused Egyptian security forces of extra-judicial killing of 3,185 civilians since July…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos finalized their divorce to the tune of a USD 38-billion settlement. Under the…
Southern California was rattled by its largest earthquake in two decades late Friday, a 7.1-magnitude tremor that shook buildings and…
A vast majority of Nigerians seeking asylum in Norway are being rejected. In 2018 for instance, those who know better…
US President Donald Trump on Thursday celebrated America’s Independence Day with an unprecedented display of country’s military might at a…
A volcano on the Italian island of Stromboli erupted dramatically on Wednesday, killing a hiker and sending tourists fleeing into…
The growing menace of terrorism is currently a major source of severe headache for security chiefs in West Africa. Apparently…
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) launched an online statistical review of the 2030 Agenda and the…
Indian-origin Kamala Harris has surged to the second spot among more than 20 Democrats vying for their party’s nomination for…
MacKenzie Bezos, wife of the globes’ richest man Jeff Bezos for 26 years, is set to walk away with a…
A new report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) says rules of origin, the criteria needed…
Alaska’s heat wave is driving wildfires and melting glaciers, choking the state’s biggest cities with smoke and bloating rivers with…
Donald Trump stepped onto North Korean soil Sunday as he met Pyongyang’s leader Kim Jong Un in the Demilitarized Zone…
The experts and members of the Ministerial Committee on the Single Currency Programme of the Economic Community of West African…
A leading world rights group, Human Rights Watch has said that the adoption of a ground-breaking global treaty on June…
Diplomats from Germany, Britain, France, the European Union, China, Russia and Iran met in Vienna for talks on the 2015…
The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) this Sunday, the International Day of Parliamentarism, is celebrating its 130th anniversary. What began in 1889…
Will Joe Biden, the former vice-president, retain his early lead in polls to win the Democratic presidential nomination and take…
Director-General of Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), José Graziano da Silva, has said that political will is the fundamental and…
Wildfires in California and Siberia. Floods wiping out grain harvests in Argentina. Droughts forcing water restrictions in Capetown and affecting…
A 6.2 magnitude earthquake hit the Panama-Costa Rica border around midnight on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, revising earlier…
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says allowing Google’s Android win the mobile space was his “greatest mistake ever.” He also pointed out that…
US President Donald Trump said in an interview broadcast Sunday his chances of retaining the White House in 2020 would…