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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...

Newspaper cites 10 current and former officials in report of serious intelligence breach caused either by a mole or hacking of covert communication system The Chinese government “systematically dismantled” CIA spying operations in the country starting in late 2010 and killed or imprisoned at least...

Qatar must end its support for the Palestinian group Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood before ties with other Arab Gulf states could be restored, said Saudi Arabia's foreign minister. Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates severed diplomatic ties and transport links with...

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...

By:BBC AFRICA Rwanda will host dozens of schoolgirls being relocated from Afghanistan following the takeover of their country by Taliban militants. Shabana Basij-Rasikh, the founder of a privately run School of Leadership, Afghanistan (Sola), said on Tuesday that about 250 students, staff and family members were...

Israel's occupation has curbed the freedom of movement for many Palestinians and split families in some areas. thousands are crammed into what's effectively no-man's land in Kufr Aqab, which falls inside the municipality of Jerusalem, so it's governed by Israel; but, it's on the...

HUAWEI PREDICTS that by 2025 all enterprise IT solutions will be “cloudified”, and more than 85 per cent of enterprise applications will be cloud-based. Every company will integrate its core business with the cloud, and will be on the look-out for cloud solutions that best...

By Phil Stewart | WASHINGTON When U.S. President Donald Trump boasted early last week that he had sent an "armada" as a warning to North Korea, the aircraft carrier strike group he spoke of was still far from the Korean peninsula, and headed in the...

The leader of Britain's main opposition Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn has condemned the demand by four Arab states to shut down Al Jazeera. In an exclusive interview, he also said the Saudi-led coalition's war in Yemen amounts to an invasion. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates...

In early August, China became the latest country to open a military base in the Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti, the third smallest country on the continent’s mainland. Chinese officials said the facility had nothing to do with military expansion and will be a...