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More than a dozen fellow Nobel laureates have criticised Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s de facto leader, for a bloody military crackdown on minority Rohingya people, warning of a tragedy “amounting to ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity”. The open letter to the UN security...

By: Jaushieh Joseph Wu, Minister of Foreign Affairs Republic of China (Taiwan) After more than 200 million infections and over 4 million deaths and counting, the COVID-19 pandemic has raged across the globe. This has created a profoundly devastating socio-economic impact on our interconnected world, with...

By: Anadolu Agency Türkiye's air force pilot Alper Gezeravci will be sent to International Space Station, while Tuva Cihangir Atasever is selected as a reserve candidate, President Erdogan says in Teknofest. Türkiye has...

The brief hijacking of a Lebanese-registered ship has drawn attention to the resurgence of piracy off the coast of Somalia, after five years of inactivity. Pirates boarded the OS 35, a cargo ship, Saturday evening but then abandoned it Sunday before naval forces rescued the...

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and MAGGIE HABERMANJUNE 12, 2017 WASHINGTON — A longtime friend of President Trump said on Monday that Mr. Trump was considering whether to fire Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating possible ties between the president’s campaign and Russian officials. The...

'Obscene' for so much wealth to be in hands of so few, says charity director Winnie Byanyima. The gap between the super-rich and the poorest half of the world's population is starker than previously thought, with just eight men, including Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg,...

Organization (FAO) recently declared that millions of citizens in the Horn of Africa face food shortages. Owing to a persistent lack of rainfall between October and December, as many as 12 million people across Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are in dire need of food...

Rebecca Samervel| Aug 2, 2017, 01:05 PM IST MUMBAI: A special court on Tuesday convicted 15 Somali pirates, nabbed in 2011, and sentenced them to seven years in jail. The accused who have spent six and a half years in jail will be deported to...

Born and raised in Somalia, Abdulqafar Abdullahi’s life path was interesting, often exciting, but not always easy. After high school, he won a scholarship to an Indian university, where he earned both a Bachelor’s degree in economics and a Master’s degree in business administration. He...

President-elect Trump conceded for the first time that Russia was behind the hacking of Democratic institutions during the presidential election, saying at a news conference that, “I think it was Russia” — though a few minutes later he said perhaps it was another country. But...