Reuters, Washington : U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Wednesday rejected criticism that deploying thousands of troops to the border with Mexico was a political...
AP, Colombo :Sri Lanka’s president has summoned Parliament to meet next week as pressure grows for him to resolve the turmoil set off when he...
AP, Washington :President Donald Trump says the number of military troops deployed to the U.S.-Mexican border could reach 15,000 – roughly double the number the...
AP, Islamabad :Pakistan’s top court on Wednesday acquitted a Christian woman who was sentenced to death on blasphemy charges in 2010, a landmark ruling that...
AFP, Brussels :The Istanbul summit on Syria took “huge steps” toward ending its civil war, but the situation remains dangerous with so many foreign armed...
AP, Taipei :Any attempt to determine Taiwan’s future by “other than peaceful means” is a threat to regional security and a matter of “grave concern”...
Reuters, Pittsburgh :U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday visited the Pittsburgh synagogue attacked by an anti-Semitic gunman and lit candles for each of the 11...
AFP, Jerusalem :Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he welcomes mediation from the United Nations and Egypt to prevent a humanitarian collapse in the...
AP, Washington :The Pentagon said it’s sending 5,200 troops to the Southwest border in an extraordinary military operation ordered up just a week before midterm...
AFP, Colombo :Sri Lanka’s parliament speaker on Tuesday stepped up his warnings to the country’s president that unrest could erupt unless lawmakers are allowed to...
Reuters, Istanbul :Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor held a second round of talks with Turkish officials on Tuesday and visited the Saudi consulate in Istanbul where...
Al Jazeera News :Sao Paulo, Brazil – Far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro won Brazil’s presidential elections, signalling a political shift for South America’s most populous nation...
