World

Cairo: African leaders officially launched the operational phase of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement. The launch occurred at the...

Vienna: Some 464,000 people across the world were victims of homicidal violence in 2017, more than five times the number killed in armed conflict over the...

Doha: A major Afghan peace conference involving senior government officials, civil society members, women, and Taliban concluded with a roadmap for peace...

Kiev: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has proposed holding talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in the Belarusian capital...

Manila: For the first five months of 2019, a total of 3,489,270 tourists visited the Philippines, marking a 9.76 per cent increase from last year’s...

Colombo: New figures show Sri Lankan tourism could recover faster than expected, according to a senior government official. Tourist arrivals in June nearly...

Amsterdam: A warlord from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was found guilty by the International Criminal Courts (ICC) of war crimes and crimes...

Washington: California Rep Eric Swalwell became the first Democrat to drop out of a crowded field of candidates looking to take on US President Donald Trump...

Hong Kong: A controversial extradition bill that led to mass protests in Hong Kong is dead, the chief executive of the semi-autonomous city Carrie Lam...

Geneva: There are over 460,000 suspected cases of cholera in Yemen so far this year, according to a UN spokesman. The figure is greater than the 380,000...