In the democratic capital of West Africa, Dakar, a roundtable on democratic values in Senegal took place between July 1 and 2, 2024. Representatives from civil society and civic associations funded by
AT least four people have been killed in violent protests against French magazine Charlie Hebdo in Niger’s second city of Zinder, officials say. A number of churches and the French cultural centre
BRITAIN and the US are to share expertise on preventing radicalism and tackling domestic “violent extremism”. Prime Minister David Cameron announced the move following talks with President Barack Obama at the White
POPE Francis has held an open-air Mass in the Philippine city of Tacloban, which was devastated by Typhoon Haiyan just over a year ago.Tens of thousands of people braved pouring rain and
SRI Lanka’s new government Friday announced lifting a ban on foreign nationals visiting to the island’s former war zones and scrapped an economic embargo on minority Tamil regions. President Maithripala Sirisena, just
TAIWAN’S agricultural officials on Friday said Avian Influenza Virus H5N3 has been detected for the first time in Taiwan, a report said. Officials of the Council of Agriculture said that 2,720 geese
A TOP United States (U.S.) Republican lawmaker has made a sweeping election-year attack on President Barack Obama’s foreign policy, blasting a landmark nuclear cuts treaty with Russia and efforts to engage Iran.
A TEAM of Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian environmental scientists has warned that large stretches of the biblical river could dry up by 2011. They said much of what remains is nothing but
AFTER more than six decades, Taiwan has opened a tourism office in Beijing that represents its first official presence in the Chinese capital since the two sides split amid civil war in
ISRAEL'S Supreme Court has ordered the military to let Palestinians travel on the part of a major highway that runs through the West Bank, handing them their biggest victory yet against Jewish
THE Iranian authorities yesterday urged its supporters out onto the streets of major cities in a show of force against the opposition, which it accuses of being "pawns of the enemies." The