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Government says gem will be sold with a ‘transparent’ bidding process to the benefit of the community and country. A picture of the 706-carat diamond discovered in Sierra Leone [Saidu Bah/AFP] A pastor in Sierra Leone has unearthed a 706-carat diamond, according to the government, in one of the largest precious stone finds ever made […]

A victim of the attack is carried ashore in Yemen. Eighty refugees were rescued. Photograph: Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters Thirty-one Somali refugees were reportedly killed off the coast of Yemen late on Thursday when a helicopter attacked the boat they were travelling in, a coastguard in the Houthi-controlled Hudaydah area has said. Mohamed al-Alay said the refugees, […]

Tehran’s interim Friday prayer leader says the US bans imposed against Iran following the conclusion of the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and the world powers prove Washington is not trustworthy. “This experience is enough and let’s not repeat the same experience, because the US proved that it is our enemy and our diplomats say […]

Donald’s Corp quickly deleted a tweet sent from the company’s handle slamming President Donald Trump on Thursday and said its official Twitter account had been compromised. The tweet, which was copied and shared widely before being deleted, came a day after the Twitter accounts of a number of major news organizations, chief executives, government agencies […]

  Somali pirates who seized a Comoros-flagged oil tanker earlier this week after five years without a major hijacking in the region have released the ship and its crew without conditions, officials said late Thursday. Security official Ahmed Mohamed said the pirates disembarked the ship, which was heading to Bossaso port, the region’s commercial hub, […]

A protester with a portrait of US President Donald Trump. Chinese were kept out of the US for decades until 1943, so why the support for one of the US president’s most controversial policies? Opinions among Chinese-Americans about President Donald Trump’s effort to ban the citizens of several Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States […]

A multi-nation conference on trans-Asia connectivity opened in New Delhi to explore the possibility of a rail freight service linking India to Iran and Turkey. The two-day event brings together railway and custom officials from Afghanistan, Iran, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Kazakhstan, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia and India along with government officials, policy-makers and experts, Press TV […]