Elizabeth Salmon, the U.N. special rapporteur for North Korea’s human rights, North Korea called the U.N.’s top expert on the country’s human rights “a puppet” of the United States, warning Friday that it won’t tolerate an American-led plot to use the rights issue to overthrow its political system. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) By The Associated Press

This photo released by the official website of the Iranian Defense Ministry on Sunday, June 9, 2019, shows the Khordad 15, a new surface-to-air missile battery at an undisclosed location in Iran. The system uses locally made missiles that resemble the HAWK missiles that the US once sold to the shah and later delivered to

By The Associated Press Europe’s energy crisis loomed larger Friday after Russian energy giant Gazprom said it couldn’t resume the supply of natural gas through a major pipeline to Germany for now. The company cited what it said was a need for urgent maintenance work to repair key components — in an announcement made just

By Reuters The U.S. State Department has approved a potential $1.1 billion sale of military equipment to Taiwan, including 60 anti-ship missiles and 100 air-to-air missiles, with China threatening to take counter measures. The Pentagon announced the package on Friday in the wake of China’s aggressive military drills around Taiwan following a visit to the

By Anadolu Agency Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner gave testimony for 50 minutes Friday at her apartment in Buenos Aires after an assassination attempt was made on her life. Authorities are trying to determine if a sole suspect acted alone after they arrested a man for pointing a gun at Kirchner late Thursday.

In this handout picture provided by the Indian Navy, INS Vikrant, India’s first indigenously-built aircraft carrier, sails for sea trials from Kochi, India, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022. India on Friday commissioned its first home-built aircraft carrier. (Indian Navy via AP) By The Associated Press India commissioned its first home-built aircraft carrier Friday as it seeks

Industrialization By The African Exponent Africa has a working-age population representing 60% of its population, and it does not face a domestic labor shortage. Industrialization is the period of economic and social change that turns a human group from an agrarian to an industrial society. Industrialization entails the complete re-organization of an economy and has

Residents watch a convoy of security personnel armed with batons and shields patrol through central Kashgar in western China’s Xinjiang region, China’s discriminatory detention of Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic groups in the western region. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File) By The Associated Press China has denounced a long-delayed U.N. report that was released

By Business Daily Africa Abdi Hussein Ahmed, a Kenyan wanted in the US for wildlife and drug trafficking was on Wednesday presented before a city court after his arrest early this month. Mr Ahmed had a bounty of up to Sh120 million (US $1) million for his capture and was arrested by detectives in a

The Turkish government wants to send the Somali troops for training to its country for a period of six months to one year to spend their time learning the country’s language. Anadolu Agency Turkey state own media reported, this change will be initiated by the Turkish troops who are currently being trained in Somalia, in