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UN Photo/Ilyas AhmedThe town of Belet Weyne in the Hiraan region of Somalia as seen from the air submerged in flood waters from the Shabelle river on 30 April 2018. Belet Weyne is currently experiencing its worst flooding ever and over 150,000 people have been displaced. United Nations agencies in Somalia have stepped up their […]

At least three people were killed and others wounded in a suicide attack on the High National Elections Commission in Ghoat Shaal district of Tripoli on Wednesday. Security sources said the attack was carried out by three gunmen, two of them blew themselves up and the other was killed in an exchange of fire with […]

Two Chinese submersibles finished a three-day joint operation, the first of its kind in the country’s deep sea exploration, to detect a cold seep in the Pearl River Mouth Basin in the South China Sea. Unmanned submersible Haima, or “seahorse”, and manned submersible Shenhai Yongshi, or “deep sea warrior”, on board scientific survey ships Haiyang 6 and Tansuo 1 respectively, carried […]

Have North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and his regime changed? Or is it just part of clever tricks to polish his image and earn sanctions relief? This might be one common question in everyone’s minds after witnessing the historic inter-Korean summit last Friday between President Moon Jae-in and Kim. The North’s recalcitrant leader swept many […]

  It’s the second time in six months a mosque in Mubi has been targeted At least 24 people have been killed in a double suicide attack on a mosque and a market in northeast Nigeria, police say. More than a dozen were hurt in the explosions in the town of Mubi on Tuesday. Abdullahi Yerima, […]

AFP The French government was under pressure on Wednesday to explain how hundreds of anti-capitalist protesters were able to run amok in Paris on Tuesday, torching McDonald’s restaurant, cars and bus stops. France’s interior minister promised Wednesday to  boost security at protests after hooded youths ran amok at May Day      demonstrations in Paris, torching […]

Mao Xinyu, left, became the youngest Major General of the People’s Liberation Army of China, according to Chinese newspaper Ming Pao in Hong Kong, August 2010. / Korea Times file Chinese communist revolutionary Mao Zedong’s only grandson Mao Xinyu was possibly killed in a bus crash in North Korea in April that killed over 30 […]

Protestors flee from clouds of teargas during a demonstration on the sidelines of a march for the annual May Day workers’ rally in Paris on May 1, 2018. (AFP Photo) French riot police used water cannon and teargas on Tuesday against hundreds of hooded protesters after they smashed shop windows and hurled petrol bombs at […]

French President Emmanuel Macron leaves his presidential Airbus A330-200: Photo: Ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP Fresh from meeting with President Donald Trump in Washington, Macron touched down for the first foray Down Under by a French leader since François Hollande came to Brisbane for a G20 summit four years ago. His advisers said he […]

Tehran’s dismissal comes as US calls Netanyahu speech ‘compelling’ even as EU official says no proof Iran violated deal. Tehran’s dismissal comes as US calls Netanyahu speech ‘compelling’ even as EU official says no proof Iran violated deal. Iran’s top officials have bristled at the Israeli prime minister’s allegations that Tehran secretly pursued a nuclear weapons programme, […]