Senior US officials have reportedly said Washington will no longer accept the presence of Hamas representatives in Qatar, accusing the Palestinian group of rejecting the latest proposals to achieve a…
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USA: Haley and Pompeo will not join second administration-Trump
President-elect Donald Trump announced in a public social media post Saturday that he will not be inviting two members of his former administration back to the White House. Trump is meeting with potential…
USA: UN Security Council sanctions two Sudan paramilitary RSF generals
A United Nations Security Council committee has sanctioned two generals from Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for destabilising the country through violence and human rights abuses. These are the first UN…
Bolivia: Constitutional court bars former leader Evo Morales from running for office
Bolivia’s constitutional court has barred former President Evo Morales from running again for elected office, preventing him from contesting next year’s presidential election. The ruling, made public on Friday, also reaffirms a…
UK: Hidden message in a bottle found in lighthouse wall after 132 years
Engineers have found a bottle with a 132-year-old message deep inside the walls of a lighthouse in the south of Scotland. The bottle was found inside the Corsewall Lighthouse at…
Palestine: Christians despair as Gaza homeland is destroyed by Israel’s war
When Khalil Sayegh thinks back to his childhood in the Gaza Strip, the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Porphyrius looms large in his memory. Sayegh, now 29, remembers the weddings,…
South Sudan: Floods displace almost 380,000- UN
Flooding in South Sudan has displaced more than 379,000 people, according to a United Nations update that warned about a surge in malaria. Aid agencies have said the world’s youngest country,…
USA: Pentagon allows US military contractors to fix weapons in Ukraine
The United States is allowing a small number of American defence contractors to work inside Ukraine to maintain and repair Pentagon-provided weaponry, according to US officials. The US has been…
Cuba: Power slowly coming back on after passage of Category 3 Hurricane Rafael
Authorities in Cuba say they are slowly restoring electricity to the eastern half of the island after the entire country lost power when Hurricane Rafael knocked out the electrical grid. Ten million people were…
Russia: President Putin says he is ready for dialogue with ‘courageous’ Trump
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has congratulated Donald Trump on winning the United States election, saying Moscow was ready for dialogue with the Republican president-elect.In his first public remarks since Trump’s win, Putin on…