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April 11, 2019 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan official and radio-television have interrupted their programmes and broadcast military announcing that the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) will issue a communiqué soon. Reports from Khartoum say the coup d’état has been carried out by the whole military institution including the defence minister and first vice-president Awad Ibn Ouf. Also, […]

President Moon, left, is hoping to salvage what is left of the aborted Hanoi summit where the US and North Korea failed to reach an agreement [Pyongyang Press Corps Pool via AP] President Moon, left, is hoping to salvage what is left of the aborted Hanoi summit where the US and North Korea failed to […]

   Vladimir Gerdo / TASS Russia is buying gold. A lot of gold. Within the span of a decade, the country quadrupled its reserves. Gold buying last year exceeded mine supply for the first time, so Russia is about to become a net importer of the metal. Commentators have suggested possible reasons for the buying […]

FILE — Mohamed Noor, left, former Minneapolis police officer, leaves the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis with attorney Peter Wold after a hearing to address several pretrial motions, March 1, 2019. A Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed an unarmed woman as she approached his squad car after calling 911 was reacting to […]

Militants stand on gun-mounted vehicles as they prepare to move to the frontline to join forces loyal to the UN-backed unity government, in Tripoli. EPA-EFE/Stringer There’s been an escalation of conflict in Libya. Fighting has moved to the outskirts of the capital, Tripoli, and the United Nations has called for a ceasefire. Moina Spooner from The Conversation Africa […]

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses supporters as results in the Israeli general elections are announced at a Likud event in Tel Aviv, early on April 10, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu clinched a clear electoral victory Wednesday morning, with some 97 percent of votes showing his Likud party tied with Blue and White, […]

Esam Omran Al-Fetori, Reuters | Khalifa Haftar’s forces pose for a picture as they head out of Benghazi to reinforce the troops advancing to Tripoli, in Benghazi, Libya, April 7, 2019. Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar’s forces said Sunday they had carried out their first air strike on a suburb of Tripoli, where fighters loyal to […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) shakes hands with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (R) ahead of a meeting at The Kremlin in Moscow on April 8, 2019. (AFP Photo) President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan arrived in Moscow on Monday for his third meeting this year with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for the opening ceremony of the Turkey-Russia […]

Former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt exited the Trump administration in July 2018. | Andrew Harnik/AP Photo   Here is a list of departures from top positions in the Trump administration during President Donald Trump’s two-plus years in the White House. This list doesn’t include people who were nominated but never actually served, or […]

People in Sudan have been protesting since December demanding the resignation of President Omar al-Bashir [File: Anadolu] Security forces in Sudan fired tear gas at protesters in an attempt to break up a demonstration in front of the defence ministry in central Khartoum, witnesses said on Monday. A witness told Al Jazeera that security forces on pickup […]