International

Credit Suisse offices were raided last week by the Swiss police, who seized documents related to the failure of the...

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has jointly awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize to journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov. The...

No fewer than 1.3 billion people are multidimensionally poor across 109 countries, while differences in multidimensional poverty among ethnic groups...

KAMPALA, Uganda  When Uganda was grappling with an aggressive second surge of COVID-19 cases a few weeks ago, one of...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi on Wednesday discussed, by telephone, the readiness to resume peace...

Zanzibar-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has been announced as the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature by the Swedish...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has approved the first ever malaria vaccine for children in Africa and other regions. “This...

For the first time since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution ousted the Romanov dynasty, Russia held its first royal wedding in...

Tropical Storm Dianmu has flooded 70,000 homes and killed six people in Thailand's northern and central provinces.Local authorities in Bangkok...

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced to one year of house arrest for illegally funding his failed 2012 reelection...