IT is a big annual interface between (first world) Japan and third world, Africa. In a sense, that old Asian tiger is in some kind of alliance with the countries mostly in the south of the hemisphere, to see if there can be some coaching on how to...

EXCESSIVE  police force against demonstrators "has no place" in a democracy, European Union Enlargement Commissioner, Stefan Fule, told Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday, urging a probe into a week of violent unrest in Turkey, a...

PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin on Friday proposed that Russian peacekeepers  should replace departing Austrian troops monitoring the Israeli-Syrian ceasefire line in the Golan Heights that has been the scene of an upsurge in fighting in recent...

PARIS, the daughter of late pop icon, Michael Jackson, was reportedly rushed to a California hospital on Wednesday after trying to commit suicide, a family source told Agence France Presse (AFP).

A celebrity website, TMZ, also wrote that the...

UNITED States House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal if.) has asserted that Congress is “rigged” to suppress the interests of women and keep their voices out of the discussion, a day after Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) and an all-male panel...

Austria to quit UN force over Damascus violence

THE rebels  fighting Syrian government Thursday  briefly seized the only crossing along the Israel-Syria ceasefire line on the Golan, before regime forces recaptured it using tanks.

The...

UNITED States (U.S.) government  Thursday explained that a top spy agency was using a “crucial tool” against terrorism by sweeping up domestic telephone records, just as new revelations on the programme sparked a swift...

THE Africa Union (AU) envoy for Somalia, Ambassador Mahamat Saleh Annadif, has called for an immediate end to fighting in the southern port city of Kismayo, where clashes have reportedly led to civilian deaths, Xinhua reported Monday.

In a...

SUDAN has put on hold nine security and economic pacts with South Sudan, including on vital oil shipments, but said Khartoum remained committed to good relations if Juba ended support for rebels.

“We will stop all nine agreements, not only...

MAMPHELA Ramphele, a former World Bank’s managing director turned opposition leader in South Africa, has reasoned that the country would be a better democracy by now if Nelson Mandela had served a second term as president.

The onetime...

THE British government has announced a compensation and costs deal worth £19.9 million for more than 5,200 elderly Kenyans who were tortured and abused during the 1950s Mau Mau uprising against colonial rule.

Making this known Thursday, Foreign...

ISRAEL has struck a deal to deport up to 2,000 illegal Eritrean immigrants to an unnamed African country in return for supplying it with military aid, the Yediot Aharonot newspaper said  Wednesday.

The paper said that, under an agreement in...

ABOUT 11 years after an eruption of Mount Nyiragongo devastated the sprawling lakeside city of Goma, killing hundreds of people, eastern Congo’s armed conflict is preventing scientists from predicting the volcano’s next deadly...

MALIAN soldiers have reportedly launched an assault on armed Tuareg separatists accused of ethnic cleansing, in a bid to dislodge them from a key northern stronghold ahead of national elections.

After a wave of expulsions of black residents by...

A SOUTH Africa court Tuesday postponed the murder trial of sport star, Oscar Pistorius, until August 19.

Pistorius showed up in the court for a brief pre-trial hearing and magistrate Daniel Thulare decided to postpone the trial, Xinhua...

MALIAN troops were preparing  Tuesday to re-take a key regional capital occupied by Tuareg separatist rebels who have refused to allow the entry of the country’s army or government ahead of nationwide elections.

Troops have been mobilised...