International

AP, Stockholm :Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Saturday accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, saying it helped his country achieve the “impossible dream” of ending...

AP, Lagos :Metal girders and the roof of a crowded church collapsed onto worshippers in southern Nigeria, killing at least 160 people with the toll...

Reuters, Seoul :South Korean prosecutors indicted a former senior presidential aide and a former vice culture minister as part of their investigation of a corruption...

AFP, United Nations :Incoming UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will take the oath of office on Monday, hoping to show he is primed for action despite...

Reuters, Washington :US President Barack Obama has ordered intelligence agencies to review cyber attacks and foreign intervention into the 2016 election and deliver a report...

Reuters, Manama :The United States will send 200 additional military personnel including special forces to the campaign against Islamic State in Syria to create a...

AFP, Washington : Four billionaires, three generals, a handful of women and nothing but conservatives: President-elect Donald Trump is building a super-rich, unorthodox and largely white...

AFP, Abidjan :Ivory Coast’s government on Friday announced a programme to provide birth certificates for three million children left undocumented by years of war, poverty...

BBC Online :The number of people displaced by a powerful earthquake that hit Indonesia on Wednesday has soared to at least 43,000, emergency officials say.The...

Reuters, London :British Prime Minister Theresa May’s ruling Conservative Party retained a parliamentary seat in a strongly pro-Brexit area on Friday, heading off a challenge...

AP, Washington :More than 300 American Muslim leaders are imploring Donald Trump to reject the anti-Muslim policies he touted during his presidential campaign, as well...