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Official sources state that 54 people have been killed and 85 injured in a bomb expolision in Northern Sinai on Friday. Unknown militants detonated an explosive device in a mosque in the village of al-Rawdah in the center of the town of Bir al-Abed in Northern Sinai. Sources said that unknown persons planted an explosive […]

FILE PHOTO U.S. soldiers take part in Exercise Eager Lion at one of the Jordanian military bases in Zarqa © Muhammad Hamed / Reuters Russia has criticized Washington’s disregard for international law following a report that US troops will remain in Syria after the defeat of ISIS in order to prop up local Kurdish forces […]

PRESIDENT-designate and Zanu-PF First Secretary Cde Emmerson Mnangagwa will today be sworn-in as the country’s Head of State and Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces with several Sadc leaders here to witness the occasion. 9:40 – At the RG Mugabe International Airport, three Cabinet Ministers arrived early to welcome foreign dignitaries coming for […]

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson talks to reporters during a daily media briefing at the White House in Washington on Monday. The Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — The United States declared the ongoing violence against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar to be “ethnic cleansing” on Wednesday, threatening penalties for military officials engaged in a brutal crackdown […]

Greek police will help bolster airport checks in Germany in a dispute over hundreds of passengers allegedly caught flying out of Greece with falsified papers, a police source told AFP. A police officer checking a passport at Frankfurt Airport. Photo: DPA. As of next week, Greek liaison officers will be stationed at airports in Frankfurt […]

Zimbabwe’s former president Robert Mugabe was granted immunity from prosecution and assured that his safety would be protected in his home country as part of a deal that led to his resignation, sources close to the negotiations said on Thursday. Zimbabwe’s former president Robert Mugabe was granted immunity from prosecution and assured that his safety […]

Rwanda has offered to provide refuge to as many as 30,000 African migrants suffering slave-like conditions in Libya, the foreign ministry announced Wednesday.   © Mahmud Turkia, AFP | African migrants arrive at a naval base in Tripoli, Libya, on Oct. 11, 2017. A week after US network CNN broadcast an exposé of a slave auction of […]

Police in Papua New Guinea have entered a decommissioned prison camp on Manus Island, trying to evict refugees who are refusing to leave. Papua New Guinean police entered the Manus Island detention centre [AAP/Refugee Action Coalition/via Reuters] About 50 of the camp’s inhabitants left in buses, but about 330 others said they were too afraid to […]

Syrian troops are making steadfast advances along the west bank of the Euphrates and ousting Islamic State, the Russian Defense Ministry said. The news comes after a series of major defeats for the jihadists, close to being wiped out in eastern Syria. FILE PHOTO Syrian army soldiers fire on the Islamic State (IS) positions near […]

China on Wednesday said it respected Robert Mugabe’s decision to step down as president of Zimbabwe and vowed to continue “friendly” relations with the country it backed during his authoritarian rule. China became a major political and economic partner of Mugabe’s regime over the years as the West shunned the veteran leader over his government’s […]