Shehu Shagari, Nigeria's second president, whose civilian tenure was sandwiched between two military rulers in an era rocked by coups, has died. He was 93. Nigeria's current President Muhammadu Buhari, who unseated Shagari 35 years ago, said Saturday he mourns "the departure of a...
Moscow will deal with the capture of Ukrainian sailors in the Azov Sea in accordance with Russian law, while acknowledging German Chancellor Angela Merkel's position, the Russian news agency RIA quoted the Kremlin spokesman as saying Saturday. Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron...
Four members of an extremist Jewish sect based in Guatemala have been arrested in New York on charges of kidnapping two children, federal prosecutors have said. According to a statement issued Friday by the US Attorney's Office from the Southern District of New York, the four men are...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel held a phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, her office said late Friday. The two leaders discussed recent international developments, particularly in Syria and Ukraine, German government spokeswoman Ulrike Demmer said in a statement. Merkel...
Moscow and London have reached an agreement to return some staff to their respective embassies after they expelled dozens of diplomats early this year, TASS news agency reported Friday, citing the Russian envoy to the U.K. The British Foreign Office and the Russian Foreign Ministry were...
U.S. President Donald Trump Friday threatened to "entirely" close the southern U.S. border with Mexico if lawmakers refuse his demands to fund a wall. "We will be forced to close the Southern Border entirely if the Obstructionist Democrats do not give us the money to finish the Wall...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron demanded Friday that Russia release Ukrainian sailors it captured along with their ships last month in the Kerch Strait, which links the Black Sea with the Azov Sea. Moscow accused the 24 sailors of illegally crossing...
Security forces saved 13 irregular migrants, including six children, who were about to freeze to death in southern Turkey, health officials said Thursday. Migrants who illegally crossed into Turkey via the Syrian border were dispatched to nearby hospitals in Hatay province, said the...
Indonesians who survived last Saturday’s deadly tsunami which hit the Sunda Strait continue to await relief from the government. Roughly 110 kilometers (68 miles) west of Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital, Labuan resident Neng Sumiati, 42, spoke to Anadolu Agency about the moments leading up...
A Belgian judge has ordered the government to repatriate six children of Daesh (ISIS) militants and their mothers who have been detained in a camp in Kurdish-controlled Syria, the national news agency Belga said Wednesday. Tatiana Wielandt, 26, and Bouchra Abouallal, 25, both Belgian citizens,...
From dusk till dawn, the Afghan capital of Kabul resembles an abandoned city these days, shrouded in the thick black smoke of mostly coal-fired heaters amid the harsh winter. Air pollution during the winter in this fast-developing metropolis has made breathing difficult for locals,...
India on Wednesday arrested 10 suspected members of a terrorist group inspired by Daesh. The National Investigative Agency (NIA) said they carried out searches at 17 locations in the capital New Delhi and neighboring Uttar Pradesh in a “major crackdown” on an Daesh-inspired group...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) began conducting secondary medical checks on migrant children after two children died in their custody. The CBP said in a statement Tuesday it would conduct checks on all children in their custody, with a focus on those less than 10 years old....
The two Koreas on Wednesday held a symbolic groundbreaking ceremony for an inter-Korean railway and highway project. “The ceremony started at Panmun Station in the North's border town of Kaesong at around 10 a.m. [0100GMT] with high-ranking officials from the two Koreas on hand,” the...
Nigerian army has said at least 13 security operatives -- including soldiers and policemen -- were killed in an ambush by Boko Haram fighters in the restive northeast region. Army spokesman Onyema Nwachukwu said in a statement late Tuesday that the troops ran into the ambush along the...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection ordered medical checks on every child in its custody Tuesday after an 8-year-old boy from Guatemala died, marking the second death of an immigrant child in the agency’s care this month. The death came during an ongoing dispute over border security and...
President Donald Trump is recycling familiar fictions concerning the Iran nuclear deal as he lashes out at a Republican senator who criticized him and a U.S. official who resigned in protest against Trump’s plan to pull troops from Syria. Trump slapped both critics in one tweet on...
A German journalist who was found to have fabricated and invented facts in many of his articles in recent years could now be charged over allegedly soliciting donations for Syrian orphans from his readers that went straight into his bank account. The German magazine Der Spiegel said its...
Gunmen shot a former lawmaker dead in southern port city of Karachi in a fresh wave of political violence, police said. Ali Raza Abidi, who had been elected twice as a member of the lower house -- the National Assembly -- from Karachi in 2008 and 2013 was ambushed by motorbike riding...
Tamir Pardo, former head of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, has claimed that Russian cyber-meddling helped influence the 2016 U.S. presidential elections in favor of current U.S. President Donald Trump, Israeli daily Haaretz reported Tuesday. According to Pardo, Russia chose...
