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Guterres is “deeply alarmed by the military offensive in southwestern Syria and its devastating toll on civilians,” said a statement from his spokesman Stephane Dujarric said yesterday.

Najib, his family and cronies were alleged to have stolen billions of dollars from the investment vehicle in an eye-watering fraud that stretched around the globe.

Five Kenyan police officers and three reservists were killed Sunday when their vehicle hit a homemade landmine in Wajir, northeast Kenya, a government official said. “We had an attack this afternoon and eight officers have been killed,” said northeastern regional coordinator, Mohamud Ali Saleh, the area’s top security official. Saleh said the bombing occurred in […]

Mariano Rajoy is set to become the first Spanish premier to lose a no-confidence vote since the country transitioned to democracy after the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975.

Israel says its actions are necessary to defend the border and stop mass infiltrations from the territory. It accuses Hamas, with whom it has fought three wars since 2008, of seeking to use the protests as cover to carry out violence.

North Korea’s sudden shift in attitude followed a weeks-long charm offensive that saw Kim Jong Un hold a historic summit in the Demilitarized Zone with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, and meet twice with China’s President Xi Jinping.

Satellite photos indicate North Korea has begun dismantling its nuclear test site ahead of a historic summit between leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump, a US monitor said today. In a move welcomed by Washington and Seoul, North Korea said at the weekend it will “completely” destroy the Punggye-ri test site, in a […]

US President Donald Trump is widely expected to announce on May 8 that he is pulling out of what he has called a “very badly negotiated” deal with Tehran and possibly reimpose economic sanctions.

The decision to allow women to drive could give them the much-needed mobility to join the workforce. Saudi women now no longer need male permission to start business.

Security is expected to dominate the run-up to the next election in February 2019, at which Buhari will stand for a second term. He promised to defeat Boko Haram but is now facing a series of security challenges elsewhere.

In a further attack, 11 children were killed and 16 people wounded, including Romanian and Afghan security force members, when a suicide attacker exploded his car near a NATO convoy in the southern province of Kandahar, officials said.

The Rohingya have been persecuted for decades in Myanmar, where they are widely regarded as illegal immigrants and denied citizenship. Myanmar’s military has kept Rakhine in a lock down since August, blocking access to independent observers, journalists and many aid groups.

Russia has said that there was “no alternative” to the agreement and that Iran’s position was on the issue was paramount. Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani rejected any hopes of rewriting the nuclear deal.

Trump’s war of words with Kim last year sparked global fears of another conflict on the peninsula. Trump warned of “fire and fury” against the nuclear-armed North and traded insults with Kim, branding him “Rocket Man” while Kim called Trump a “dotard”.

A statement from Myanmar’s Foreign Affairs Ministry said Johnson and Suu Kyi discussed repatriation and developments in Rakhine, the western Myanmar state from where the Rohingya have fled over the past few months.

On Friday, Trump is expected to announce that he continues to regard remaining in the Iran nuclear deal not to be in US interests.

Trump has repeatedly insulted the North Korean leader, describing him as mad and a “rocket man.”

Trump scrapped DACA last September, but left a six-month window for Congress to craft a solution by March, when thousands of immigrants would face deportation.

Archaeologists envision the site at Jaljulia, northeast of Tel Aviv, as a sort of ‘paradise” for prehistoric hunter-gatherers, with a stream, vegetation and an abundance of animals.

The Patriarch also warned Russians of “the possibility of malicious people or forces to use digital technology to render irreparable damage to our country and society.”