International

By Achile Danjuma President Vladimir Putin has urgently convened Russia's Security Council to discuss the escalating crisis involving Iran, the...

The US has lifted sanctions targeting three senior Malian officials for their relationship with Russia's mercenary group Wagner, according to...

India and Israel have signed 16 agreements to strengthen their strategic partnership, with provisions for 50,000 additional Indian laborers to...

  Pope Leo XIV's newly announced visit to Algeria in April was welcomed as a dream come true by the...

  The US has blocked the Venezuelan government from paying for Nicolas Maduro's legal representation in the drug trafficking case...

Zimbabwe has turned down a $367-million health funding package from Washington, with the administration of President Emmerson Mnangagwa expressing concerns...

South Korea’s total fertility rate rose to a four-year high in 2025, supported by continued growth in the number of...

A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson on Wednesday urged the United States to honour its commitment to suspend nuclear tests and...

Turkish authorities on Tuesday detained 11 individuals in Istanbul on alleged links to terrorist group Islamic State (IS) and spreading...

The European Union has opened negotiations on a landmark Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement with Nigeria in a strategic push...

    South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday expressed "heartfelt gratitude" to his Russian counterpart Vladmir Putin for the...

At least 15 people, including seven children, were killed after a Peruvian military helicopter crashed in the South American country...

  Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security has proposed the establishment of a national database centre to prevent and combat fake...

  U.S. forces have begun withdrawing from the Qasrak military base in Syria’s Hasakah governorate and redeploying toward Iraq, Syria...

German police on Monday said a man shot dead his wife and their two children thereafter killed himself in their...

The Mexican army announced Sunday that it had killed powerful drug lord Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera in an operation that...

Russia attacked Ukraine with dozens of strike drones and ballistic and cruise missiles, focusing on energy infrastructure, the Ukrainian military...

Kenya has demanded the repatriation of the bodies of its nationals killed and those captured as prisoners of war as...

Russian President Vladimir Putin met Madagascar's new leader Colonel Michael Randrianirina for talks at the Kremlin on Thursday. Colonel Randrianirina...

Kenya's prime intelligence agency has informed parliament that over 1,000 Kenyans are currently fighting for Russia in the war in...

Three Vietnamese airlines announced nearly $37 billion in purchases Wednesday, in a series of contracts signed with US aerospace companies....

South Korean former President Yoon Suk Yeol has been sentenced to life in prison for causing insurrection through the declaration...

A new deportation flight from the United States has landed in Cameroon. But the deportees are not Cameroonians, and, according...

Veteran US civil rights activist Reverend Jesse Jackson died Tuesday, his family said in a statement. He was 84. “His...

  A group of 105 Afghan nationals has been released from detention centres in Pakistan and has arrived back in...

Staff in the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discovered a “suspicious envelope,” according to Israeli media reports on...

  United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has declared the exclusion of Africa from permanent membership of the Security Council “indefensible,”...

Beijing's scrapping of tariffs for all but one African country will start May 1, Chinese President Xi Jinping said Saturday,...

Ukrainian forces have carried out overnight attacks on military and energy-related facilities in several Russian regions, local authorities said on...

Protesters across Israel staged demonstrations on Tuesday against what they described as the government’s failure to curb a surge in...

Official police statistics on sexual assault against women in Germany captured only a small fraction of the true number of...

UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Monday called on the international community to intervene immediately to stop more mass...

Afghan border forces have arrested 1,755 people over the past week in the western province of Herat for attempting to...

The United Kingdom’s Home Office has announced that it is phasing out asylum hotels, the government-backed temporary accommodation initiative for...

Egypt has denounced recent attacks on aid convoys in Sudan as “a grave violation of international humanitarian law.”   In...

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS has welcomed legislative approval from the United States for a $6 billion spending...

UN high commissioner for human rights, Volker Türk, has launched a $400 million appeal for 2026 as his office continues...

The Turkish government on Thursday pledged to support Nigeria in its fight against terrorism. Türkiye’s pledge is contained in a...

United States President Donald Trump has disclosed that the American government coordinated the Sokoto Christmas Day air strikes against ISIS...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Tuesday denied claims by President Donald Trump that the country's new mega-dam was funded...