U.S. climate envoy John Kerry will travel to China and Japan from August 31 to September 3, "to engage with international counterparts on efforts to address the climate crisis," the U.S. Department o
FILE PIC: A woman passes by a collapsed building in the Moroccan town of Imzouren after an earthquake struck the northeastern part of the country. /AFP An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 hi
At least 16 soldiers were killed and nine others injured after hundreds of Boko Haram fighters attacked a military post in southeast Niger, the country's defense minist
At least 16 soldiers were killed and nine others injured after hundreds of Boko Haram fighters attacked a military post in southeast Niger, the country's defense ministry said in a statement on Wedne
Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesperson for the Taliban, on Thursday, issued a statement on Afghanistan's 102nd anniversary of the country's independence from the British occupation.The statement, issued
Afghanistan's Ashraf Ghani is in the United Arab Emirates, the Gulf state's foreign ministry said on Wednesday."The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation can confirm that the
The Taliban has ordered its fighters to enter the Afghan capital Kabul, a spokesman for the group said on Sunday.The statement by Zabihullah Mujahid came shortly after reports saying President Ashraf
At least 22 people were killed and 14 were injured in an armed attack in central Nigeria's Plateau state on Saturday morning, according to the state police.Ubah Ogaba, the police spokesperson in Plat
China's Foreign Ministry on Thursday calls on Canada not to interfere in China's judicial sovereignty following Canada's protests of two crime cases involving two of its citizens.In a public statemen
China on Friday hit back at the U.S. offering temporary "safe haven" on its soil to anti-China elements who disturb the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), saying its scheme of defaming
The board of governors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a new general allocation of Special Drawing Rights (SDR) equivalent to $650 billion, the largest allocation in the IMF's h
Over 300 political parties, organizations and think tanks from over 100 countries and regions on Monday submitted a joint statement to the World Health Organization Secretariat, opposing the politici
At least 13 people were killed and 45 were injured on Friday in an attack by ISIL at a funeral and a nearby checkpoint in Salahudin Province in Iraq, according to local authorities.In a statement, Sa
China shut down a reactor at a nuclear plant in Taishan plant in southern China's Guangdong province for maintenance due to minor fuel damage, the operator said Friday.
Thirty-seven people have been rescued from a migrant boat with 45 people on board that sank south of Turkey, and Turkish naval ships and an aircraft are continuing search and rescue operations, the d
The Attorney General's Office of El Salvador has ordered the arrest of 10 government officials from a prior administration, including former President Salvador Sánchez Cerén, it said in a statement o
The Russian multifunctional Nauka (Science) module was successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station (ISS), Russia's state space corporation Rosc