Libya’s Higher Commission of Elections has announced that more than two million voters have registered to cast ballots in the 2018 presidential and parliamentary elections. Following the 2011 uprising that toppled former leader Muammar Gaddafi, Libya has been struggling for a democratic transition amid a tumultuous security situation and political division. UN Envoy to Libya […]
The mission of the European Union in Ramallah and Jerusalem on Friday expressed its concern after the recent arrests of Palestinian minors by Israeli authorities and the death of a teenager shot by Israeli forces. In a statement, the mission said the EU was troubled about the circumstances of the recent arrests of Palestinian minors […]
The organisation representing African countries has demanded that US President Donald Trump apologise after he reportedly called nations on the continent “shitholes”. The group’s mission in Washington DC on friday expressed its “shock, dismay and outrage” and said the Trump administration misunderstood Africans, the BBC reported. The US leader made the alleged remark in a […]
A lawyer for US President Donald Trump arranged to fork over $130,000 in hush money to a former porn star a month before the 2016 election over an alleged affair, a new report has said. Popularly known as “Stormy Daniels” had a “hookup” with Trump the married future President in 2006, the New York Post […]
Donald Trump paid tribute to Martin Luther King Jr, one of the principal advocates of the civil rights movement, at a time when the US President is facing accusations of racism for his alleged insult of Haiti, El Salvador and several African countries. Trump refused to answer questions about the controversy during an event on […]
Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, the world’s largest online book retailer, and his wife, MacKenzie, are donating $33 million in scholarship to fund 1,000 undocumented immigrant students, a scholarship fund has announced. The scholarship fund said, TheDream.US, which is the country’s largest scholarship programme for Dreamers, will give the grant, the largest sum ever awarded […]
US President Donald Trump has reportedly lashed out at immigrants in a foul-mouthed Oval Office outburst, media reports said. A backlash to his latest remarks was swift. “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Trump told lawmakers on Thursday, according to the Washington Post. The remark was reportedly in reference […]
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday asked governments to treat migration as a positive global phenomenon and refrain from setting up barriers to legal international migration. “Let me emphasize: migration is a positive global phenomenon. It powers economic growth, reduces inequalities, connects diverse societies and helps us ride the demographic waves of population growth and […]
A Security Council mission is to visit Afghanistan in a show of support to the war-torn nation, Council President Kairov Umarov has said. Kazakhstan will organise and lead the Council mission to Afghanistan, which would be the first in seven years, Umarov told reporters on Thursday. “We think it is important for the Security Council […]
The US is planning to reimpose sanctions on Iran, an official said ahead of President Donald Trump’s decision on sanctions relief on Tehran under the 2015 nuclear deal. “I am expecting new sanctions on Iran. We continue to look at them. We’ve rolled them out,” US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told reporters on Thursday at […]