Trump Administration Approves Keystone XL Pipeline
The Trump administration has issued a permit to energy company TransCanada to build the Keystone XL pipeline. The State Department ...
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300,000 Civilians At Risk In Damascus Fighting
The United Nations said fighting around Syria's capital has cut off 300,000 people from humanitarian assistance and pauses in the ...
Russia May Be Supplying Taliban Fighters
The top US general in Europe said on Thursday he has seen growing Russian influence on the Afghan Taliban, and ...
Car Bomb Kills At Least 5 In Somalia’s Capital
Blast near the Presidential Palace in Mogadishu targeted a security checkpoint with soldiers among the dead. A deadly car bomb ...
Flight Ban On Laptops ‘sparked By IS Threat’
An aircraft cabin ban on large electronic devices was prompted by intelligence suggesting a terror threat to US-bound flights, says ...
Somalia: 26 ‘starve To Death’ In Drought
At least 26 people have died of starvation in Somalia’s southern region of Jubaland, the government-owned Radio Mogadishu website has ...
Russia ‘strikes Deal’ With Syrian Kurds To Set Up Base
Russia is setting up a military base in northwestern Syria in agreement with the Syrian-Kurdish YPG armed group that controls ...
Happiness Report: Norway Is the Happiest Place On Earth
Norway is the happiest place on Earth, according to a United Nations agency report – toppling neighbour Denmark from the ...
Mass Graves In Central Congo Bear Witness To Growing Violence
The increasingly brutal nature of fighting in central Congo between the army and local militia is on vivid display in ...
Malaysia Expects More Arrests In Kim Jong Nam Murder Probe
The police chief did not respond immediately when contacted by Reuters for comment. Malaysian police are expected to make a ...
President Akufo-Addo Defends Appointing ‘elephant-Size’ Government of 110 Ministers
Ghana’s President has come under fire for appointing an “elephant size” government of 110 ministers. Nana Akufo-Addo, who promised to ...
U.S., China Soften Tone, Say To Work Together On North Korea
The United States and China will work together to get nuclear-armed North Korea take "a different course", U. S. Secretary ...
Tanzania To Send 500 Doctors To Kenya To Help Cover Strike
Tanzania will send 500 doctors to Kenya to help overcome the effects of a strike in public hospitals, the Tanzanian ...
Tillerson To Face Chinese Ire Over Blame For North Korea Tensions
U. S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived in China on Saturday for what is likely to be a prickly ...
Rex Tillerson Begins Tense China Meeting With Wang Li
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is meeting his Chinese counterpart Wang Li in Beijing in the final leg of ...
South Sudan Keeps Buying Weapons Amid Famine
The government of South Sudan is spending its oil revenue on weapons, even as the country descends into a famine ...
Missing From Trump’s Grand Navy Plan
U. S. President Donald Trump says he wants to build dozens of new warships in one of the biggest peace-time ...
Cedi Stabilises Marginally Over 3-Year Bond Issue, 2017 Budget
Government’s decision to issue a three-year bond last week has helped stabilize the cedi marginally on the interbank market. The ...
Israel Carries Out Air Strikes Inside Syria
Fighter jets bomb multiple targets, prompting Syrian retaliation with ground-to-air missiles, Israeli army says. The Israeli army says its aircraft ...
Yemen Migrant Boat Attack Killed 31, Says UN
The UN has confirmed the deaths of refugees after reports that 31 Somalis were killed in a helicopter gunship strike ...