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  North Korea has been extremely sensitive about the international community criticizing its human rights violations and holding leader Kim Jong-un accountable. / AP-Yonhap The United States is increasingly voicing concerns about human rights abuses in North Korea as denuclearization talks remain stalled. Analysts here say the Donald Trump administration may use the human rights […]

Fredie Blom with his ID which proves he is 115 years old. (Tammy Petersen/News24) If wisdom comes with age, he could be the wisest person in the world, Fredie Blom jokes. Believed to be the oldest man alive, the oupa from Delft on the Cape Flats celebrated his 115th birthday on election day on Wednesday. […]

President Cyril Ramaphosa applauds as confetti is launched at the end of the results ceremony in Pretoria [Ben Curtis/AP] Cape Town, South Africa – The ruling African National Congress (ANC) has won South Africa‘s parliamentary elections with 57.5 percent of the vote, the electoral commission said, announcing the official results. Saturday’s win assured a sixth straight term […]

Firing has been heard inside the Pearl Continental (PC) Hotel in Gwadar, according to SHO Bangulzai. — Photo courtesy: RadioPakistan A clearance operation is taking place at the Pearl Continental (PC) Hotel in Gwadar after “three terrorists” stormed the facility, according to Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the military’s media wing. The ISPR said that the […]

The withdrawal began at 10am (0700 GMT), according to the head of the Houthis’ Supreme Revolutionary Committee, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi. The UN’s Redeployment Coordination Committee (RCC), led by Danish Lieutenant General Michael Lollesgaard, head of the UN observer team in Hodeida, drew up the redeployment plans under a pact agreed last December in Stockholm, Sweden, the first […]

A bullet hole can be seen in the window of the car where a 44 year old woman was shot dead in Offenbach. Photo: DPA A woman has died after being shot in Offenbach, east of Frankfurt, in the state of Hesse. According to German media reports, the 44-year-old was shot by someone in a […]

The Ministry of Commerce expressed “deep regrets” on Friday at the United States’ decision to hike tariffs and said China will have to take necessary countermeasures. The comments came shortly after the US raised tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports from 10 percent to 25 percent. The ministry said in a statement that […]

The T-14 Armata Main Battle Tank. ©Sputnik / Aleksey Filippov Russia’s troops and military vehicles marched across Moscow’s Red Square during the annual V-Day parade on Thursday. No aircraft were flown this year due to the weather, but the mightiest war machines were aplenty on the ground. The parade in central Moscow on Victory Day […]

Archive photo shows a drone and an aeroplane. Photo: DPA Frankfurt airport was shut down for nearly an hour on Thursday morning as operators halted flights over a drone sighting, in the latest such incident affecting a busy European hub. No landings or take-offs were allowed after a drone was spotted over the southern part […]

South Korea’s military says North Korea has fired at least one unidentified projectile from its western area. It’s the second such launch in the last five days. The South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff had no other immediate details of the Thursday afternoon launch. North Korea and the United States are currently deadlocked in diplomacy meant […]