AFTER a night of running battles with riot police, demonstrators in Turkey Wednesday retreated from an Istanbul protest square as Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan clamped down on mass demos against his Islamic-rooted...

RUSSIAN opposition activists, in their thousands, marched through Moscow Wednesday to denounce President Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian rule and call for the release of jailed anti-Kremlin protesters.

The protesters, who were led by...

SOUTH Africa's first black President Nelson Mandela is "responding better" to treatment in hospital, President Jacob Zuma has said.

Mr Zuma told parliament he was happy with the progress being made by Mr Mandela after a "difficult few days".

The...

“IT takes a lot of courage to do what Tolu did,” President Barack Obama said Tuesday at the White House as he highlighted the story of a Nigerian immigrant who will benefit if the United States (U.S.) Congress passes a comprehensive reform law...

TURKISH riot police Tuesday fired tear gas and rubber bullets to clear protesters from an Istanbul square as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned he would show “no more tolerance” for the unrelenting mass demonstrations against his...

SECURITY has been stepped up at Mediclinic heart hospital, the South African hospital where Nelson Mandela is receiving intensive care for a fourth day.

According to theguardian,  six uniformed police officers guarding the Mediclinic heart...

• Britain denies using U.S. spy schemes to circumvent law

• ‘Canada eavesdropping on phone, Internet records too’

CONTROVERSIES surrounding America’s intelligence surveillance programmes have also  linked Canadian security...

S’African govt says Madiba remains in serious but stable condition

THE Chairperson, African Union (AU) Commission, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have joined others in sending get well messages and prayers to ailing...

THE Buckingham Palace Monday disclosed that Queen Elizabeth II’s husband, Prince Philip, is in “good spirits” in hospital where he will stay for up to two weeks, but will then require two months of convalescence.

Philip, who spent his 92nd...

THE United States (U.S.) government could make a decision as early as this week on whether to arm Syrian rebels, U.S. officials said Monday, as Secretary of State John Kerry put off a Middle East trip to attend meetings on the subject.

However...

DIRECTOR of United States (U.S.) National Intelligence, James Clapper, has canvassed a criminal probe into bombshell leaks of government monitoring of Internet users and phone records, amid a furor over the secret programmes’ threat to...

AFTER what is seen as months of tensions and threats of nuclear war, North and South Korea Sunday held their first official talks for more than two years with a view to set up a high-level meeting in Seoul.

The working-level discussions –...

ISREALI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has revealed that his country has been the target of a growing number of cyber attacks from Iran and its militant allies Hezbollah and Hamas.

Netanyahu told a cyber security conference at Tel Aviv...

THE Swiss voted overwhelmingly Sunday in favour of a government move to tighten the country’s asylum law amid a spike in refugees, in what opponents of the changes decried as a “disaster”.

A full 78.4 per cent of voters embraced changes...