Seven candidates were confirmed Monday to run for president in Senegal on Feb. 24. The seven were the remaining of 27 candidates in the western African country who applied. The rest were eliminated because they failed to collect enough signatures from the seven regions of the country, said...

Russia and Japan held the first round of talks on Friday for a peace treaty which was not signed by the two countries after the second World War. Russian and Japanese delegations headed by Foreign Ministers Sergey Lavrov and Taro Kono gathered this morning in Moscow. The talks lasted...

People in North and South America, a large part of Europe and Africa may get a glimpse of a total lunar eclipse overnight from January 20 to 21, the last such event until 2022. For those in Europe and Africa, the total eclipse will unfold shortly before sunrise. For those in North and...

The Council of Europe on Monday strongly condemned threats and attacks against journalists during recent Yellow Vest demonstrations in France. “Any attack on journalists who are simply doing their jobs is an attack on democracy,” Secretary-General Thorbjorn Jagland said in his first...