U.S. forces have begun withdrawing from the Qasrak military base in Syria’s Hasakah governorate and redeploying toward Iraq, Syria TV reported on Monday, without providing further details. The move marks another step in the drawdown of U.S.-led coalition forces from parts of the country. Earlier, Syria’s interim authority said...
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United States (US) President Donald Trump has strongly criticized the Supreme Court of the United States after it struck down his global tariffs, accusing some justices of lacking patriotism and being influenced from abroad. Speaking at a White House press conference on Friday, he said, “I’m ashamed of certain...
Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that former President Donald Trump acted beyond his constitutional authority by imposing sweeping global tariffs under emergency economic powers. In a 6–3 decision delivered on Friday, the conservative-majority court held that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) does not grant...
After many days, I realize that wherever you go, the sun, earth and moon will be the same. I left everything back then, my mother, my brother and a few of my possessions too. I had to leave Neva, the old library where I used to read, as I...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has pledged Nigeria’s support and commitment to the swift implementation of the provisions of the revitalised agreement on the resolution of the conflict in South Sudan. Prominent among the nation’s proposals as presented by the President is the immediate and unconditional release of the country’s...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has reportedly selected his teenage daughter, Kim Ju Ae, as his potential successor, according to information shared by South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) with lawmakers. The intelligence agency disclosed that Ju Ae, believed to be about 13 years old, has increasingly appeared...
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the most prominent son of Libya’s former leader Muammar Gaddafi, has been killed in the country, according to officials and local media reports. His death was confirmed on Tuesday by his lawyer, Khaled al-Zaidi, and his political adviser, Abdulla Othman, who announced the development in separate...
US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose a sweeping 100 per cent tariff on all Canadian goods if Ottawa goes ahead with a proposed trade agreement with China, escalating already tense relations between Washington and its northern neighbour since his return to the White House. Trump issued the...
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has been declared the winner of the country’s 2026 presidential election, securing a seventh term in office following a tense vote marked by violence, arrests and an internet shutdown, according to official results released on Saturday. The Electoral Commission announced that Museveni, 81, polled 71.65...
US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose trade tariffs on countries that refuse to support his plan for the United States to take control of Greenland, an autonomous territory under NATO ally Denmark. The warning marks a fresh escalation in Trump’s long-standing interest in acquiring the strategically located...
Pope Leo XIV on Monday received Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado in the Vatican, without disclosing details of the meeting. Machado has been touring Europe. She reappeared publicly in December after spending 11 months in hiding to accept the Nobel Peace Prize in...
Pope Leo XIV has called on senior Catholic leaders across the world to listen more closely to victims of clerical sexual abuse, warning that the Church continues to carry deep wounds caused not only by abuse itself but by the failure to hear and welcome survivors. Pope Leo XIV...
U.S. President Donald Trump has confirmed plans to meet Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado, who is expected to visit Washington next week. Speaking during an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday, Trump said Machado’s trip would provide an opportunity for...
United States (U.S) President, Donald Trump, has ordered the country’s withdrawal from 66 international organisations, citing concerns over cost, efficiency and what his administration describes as actions contrary to American interests. The decision was confirmed in a press statement issued on Wednesday by U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio,...
United States (US) immigration authorities have detained Ghana’s former finance minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, who is wanted in his home country over alleged corruption, according to his legal team. Ofori-Atta, 66, has been in the United States since January last year for medical reasons, including surgery related to prostate cancer....
Burkina Faso’s military-led government has announced that it successfully thwarted what it described as a highly sophisticated coup plot aimed at assassinating the country’s leader, Captain Ibrahim Traoré. The disclosure was made by the Minister of Security, Mahamadou Sana, during a nationwide television broadcast, where he said intelligence and...
The UN Security Council remained sharply divided on Monday during an emergency session over the U.S. capture of Venezuela’s President, Nicolás Maduro, in a weekend military operation. The emergency meeting followed Washington’s removal of Maduro from Caracas, an action that has unsettled governments across Latin America and drawn global...
Venezuela, Russia, China, and the Uk have urged the United States to release Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores. Following the U.S. attack on the South American country over the weekend, the UN ambassadors of Venezuela, Russia and China as well as UK lawmakers criticised what...
Venezuelan police have launched a search for collaborators following the arrest of authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro by U.S. special forces, according to a decree declaring a state of emergency. The decree, which came into force on Saturday but was made public in full on Monday, said all police units...
Venezuela’s Supreme Court has named Vice President Delcy Rodríguez as the country’s interim president following the reported arrest of President Nicolás Maduro by the United States, a development that has plunged the South American nation into a fresh political crisis. In its ruling, the court said Rodríguez would “assume...