A year ago, a faction in the Turkish army staged a failed coup bid against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, prompting a widespread crackdown on his opponents. The country was shaken and 249 people died in the botched putsch, which Erdogan blamed on Muslim preacher Fethullah Gulen, who lives in the United States. Following are key … Read more
Israel’s main opposition Labour party voted in former businessman Avi Gabbay as its new leader Monday, said the party as it seeks to regain waning influence and win back supporters. Gabbay, who only joined the party in December, took 52 percent of the votes in the runoff against longtime politician and former party leader Amir … Read more
Even if the US extreme right and white nationalism are enjoying a revival under President Donald Trump, the Ku Klux Klan — which rallied in Virginia last weekend — is a mere shadow of its once-powerful former self. “Today the Klan is mostly a collection of small, disjointed groups, with no central leadership, very little … Read more
One of four men arrested for sending thousands of dollars to the late Al-Qaeda propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki pleaded guilty Monday to supporting terrorists and plotting to kill the US judge in the case. Yahya Farooq Mohammad, 39, is one of two India-born brothers who came to the United States to study engineering in Ohio but … Read more
Israel’s main opposition Labour party voted for a new leader Monday as it seeks to regain waning influence and win back supporters who have drifted toward centrist and right-wing candidates. The runoff election sees two candidates with sharply different political backgrounds: Amir Peretz, a longtime politician and former party leader; and Avi Gabbay, an ex-businessman … Read more
Dozens of patients who reported at the Pantang Hospital on Monday, July 10, were turned away as the staff of the facility embarked on a sit-down strike. Some of the patients were left helpless as they loitered the premises of the hospital, hoping to be attended to. The staff of the are on strike to demand … Read more
Member of Parliament for Dome-Kwabenya Constituency Sarah Adwoa Safo has been urged to do the honourable by apologizing for her claims over the building of a community day senior high school in her constituency. In a video that recently went viral on social media, Ms Safo is heard telling some constituents that she was directly … Read more
Hopes are running high in Sudan that US President Donald Trump will decide this week to lift Washington’s sanctions on Khartoum, despite rights groups calling for the decades-old embargo to be maintained. “The time is right for permanently lifting the sanctions on Sudan,” senior Sudanese foreign ministry official Abdelghani Elnaim told AFP ahead of the … Read more
Despite being marred by violence, vote-buying and flaws in the electoral roll, results from Papua New Guinea’s sprawling election should reflect the will of the people, observers said Monday. Counting is underway after two weeks of voting in the vast and remote country ended Saturday, and the Commonwealth Observer Group (COG) which monitored the polling … Read more
Discreet in his youth and invisible as the world’s most wanted man, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi rose through the ranks quietly and patiently to become global jihad’s undisputed supremo. The reclusive jihadist chief made his only known public appearance as “caliph” at Friday prayers at the Grand Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, where on Sunday Iraq … Read more
Mosul was the largest city in the “caliphate” proclaimed by the Islamic State group and its loss is a huge blow to the jihadists’ statehood experiment — but not a fatal one. The northern Iraqi city was where IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi made his only known public appearance in July 2014, announcing himself to … Read more
The leader of Turkey’s main opposition party was on Sunday to address a mass rally in Istanbul at the culmination of an almost month-long march, in a rare challenge to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the leader of the secular Republican People’s Party (CHP), launched an unprecedented 450-kilometre (280 mile) trek on June 15 … Read more
The Houston Rockets inked James Harden to a contract extension worth a reported $228 million on Saturday. The Houston Chronicle reported the exact value of the deal, which will keep Harden under contract for six years, will depend on future league-wide salary cap figures. Harden had two years, worth $59 million, left on his previous … Read more
World leaders made concessions on trade and climate language to Donald Trump Saturday at the end of the most fractious and riot-hit G20 summit ever, in exchange for preserving a fragile unity of the club of major industrialised and emerging economies. In a departure from final summit declarations that tend to outline consensus on issues … Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday underlined the importance of staying calm in the North Korea crisis, saying nuclear-armed Pyongyang should be dealt with in a “pragmatic” manner. “The North Korea nuclear problem is very serious. But here, one must not lose his cool, but rather act in a pragmatic and delicate manner,” said Putin during … Read more
Virat Kohli stroked a commanding, unbeaten 111 to lead India to a series-clinching eight-wicket win over the West Indies in the fifth and final one-day international at Sabina Park on Thursday. Responding to the home side’s modest total of 205 for nine after captain Jason Holder chose to bat first in Jamaica, the visitors’ skipper … Read more
World record holder Wayde van Niekerk stormed to victory in the 400m at the Diamond League meet at Lausanne on Thursday, as American veteran Justin Gatlin went sub-10sec for the 100m. Van Niekerk is on fire this season, having run personal bests in the 100m (9.94sec) and 200m (19.84) last month, and setting a new … Read more
France is set to ban the sale of any car that uses petrol or diesel fuel by 2040, in what the ecology minister called a “revolution”. Nicolas Hulot announced the planned ban on fossil fuel vehicles as part of a renewed commitment to the Paris climate deal. He said France planned to become carbon neutral … Read more
President Donald Trump on Thursday called North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missile test ‘very, very bad behavior’ and said that there would be ‘consequences’ for Pyongyang’s belligerence. Tuesday’s launch marked a milestone in Pyongyang’s decades-long drive to threaten the US mainland with a nuclear strike, posing a tough policy challenge for Trump, who is has clashed … Read more
Pyongyang warned it would be a “piece of cake” to destroy “gangster” South Korea, state media reported Thursday, as it raged against Seoul for a joint missile drill with the US following its landmark intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test. The isolated, nuclear-armed North sent a chill through the international community Tuesday after its missile launch, … Read more