Renewed anti-government demonstrations in Iraq have gripped the capital, Baghdad, and swept through several other cities in the country’s south, leaving at least 30 people dead, according to the country’s human rights commission and a monitor. The protests on Friday came three weeks after an earlier […]
A United States judge on Friday ordered the Justice Department to give the House secret grand jury testimony from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, handing a victory to Democrats who want it for the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. Chief US District Judge Beryl Howell […]
Washington, DC – The impeachment inquiry of US President Donald Trump gained momentum this week as a top US diplomat in Ukraine linked the president to a pressure campaign aimed at forcing President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to investigate the 2016 and 2020 US elections. Tensions escalated […]
The Turkish government has been forcibly deporting refugees to war-torn Syria, two international rights groups have alleged, days after Ankara concluded a cross-border operation partly aimed at creating a so-called “safe zone” to settle millions of refugees living in Turkey. Amnesty International said in a report, […]
Renewed anti-government demonstrations in Iraq have gripped the capital, Baghdad, and swept through several other cities in the country’s south, leaving at least 30 people dead, according to the country’s human rights commission and a monitor. The protests on Friday came three weeks after an earlier […]
Parts of the drought-parched South were under flood watches and warnings Friday with forecasters saying as much as 10 inches (25 centimetres) of rain could fall. The National Weather service said an advancing cold front would collide with a weather disturbance that became a tropical […]
British police investigating the discovery of 39 bodies in a truck said Friday they had arrested two people, as a security source in Hanoi said some of the victims could be Vietnamese. The grisly case has shocked Britain and turned the spotlight onto the dangers […]
Prominent activist and media entrepreneur Jawar Mohammed has said he might challenge Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in elections planned for next year, accusing him of resorting “to the early signs of dictatorship”. Jawar, who spoke to reporters at his home in Addis Ababa on Friday, had earlier accused security […]
Japan‘s exit from their home world cup has put the spotlight back on the New Zealand team aiming for an historic third title in a row. The All Blacks’ legendary status in the sport has come despite enduring more than two decades without winning the […]
Nearly one million people in South Sudan have been affected by heavy flooding, according to the United Nations. Severe floods have devastated large areas of the country since July, submerging entire communities and forced hundreds of thousands from their homes, the UN Office for the […]
