RUSSIAN lawmakers on Thursday overwhelmingly approved Mikhail V. Mishustin as the new Prime Minister, elevating a little-known technocrat picked by President Vladimir V. Putin as…
AS the calendar flipped to 2020, Serena Williams was once again being feted, this time as sportswoman of the decade in the United States. She…
MINISTERS from Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan are set to reconvene in Washington later this month to finalize an agreement on a giant hydropower dam on…
DONALD Trump has launched a fuming response to his impeachment from behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, just hours after the Senate swore…
A LIBYAN military commander waging an offensive to capture the capital Tripoli is committed to a ceasefire, Germany said on Thursday, in an apparent advance…
THE historic impeachment trial of Donald Trump opened Thursday in the US Senate, as lawmakers took a solemn oath to be “impartial” in deciding whether…
PRINCE Harry kept silent on Thursday about the shock decision he and his wife took last week to quit as full-time royals at his first…
THE system of sanctions imposed on some African nations by the West threatens the development of the African continent, Chairman of Cairo International Centre for…
The TALIBAN have offered a brief ceasefire to the US, two insurgent sources said Thursday, a move which could allow the resumption of talks seeking…
A BRAZILIAN court on Wednesday ordered that the 2016 Rio Olympic Games facilities be closed to the public over safety concerns. The Rio Games —…
