FILE PHOTO: Political activist Ahmed Mansoor speaks to Reuters in Dubai November 30, 2011. REUTERS/Nikhil Monteiro//File Photo The United Arab Emirates (UAE) dismissed claims by U.N. human rights experts that prominent pro-democracy campaigner Ahmed Mansoor may be suffering treatment amounting to torture, state news agency WAM reported on Wednesday. Mansoor, jailed for 10 years in

Iranian president gives 60-day deadline to world powers to protect Tehran’s interests in nuclear deal Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday threatened to resume high level enrichment of uranium if his country’s interests in the nuclear deal with world powers are not protected within 60 days. His remarks came at a speech broadcast on national

The more you know, the more you know that you didn’t know! “I am African, not because I was born in Africa but because Africa is born in me.” – Kwame Nkrumah 1. Africa is the second largest continent in the world both in size and in population. 2. Africa is home to over 1

Ambulances are parked outside a cordoned off area as rescue workers and a bomb disposal team survey the site after a blast in Lahore, Pakistan May 8, 2019. REUERS/Mohsin Raza A bomb targeting Pakistani police outside a Sufi shrine in the city of Lahore on Wednesday killed nine people, officials said. The blast, a day

Photo (AP) Muqadas Ashraf was just 16 when her parents married her off to a Chinese man who had come to Pakistan looking for a bride. Less than five months later, Muqadas is back in her home country, pregnant and seeking a divorce from a husband she says was abusive. She is one of hundreds

Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo celebrate with their children after being freed from prison, after receiving a presidential pardon in Yangon, Myanmar, May 7, 2019. REUTERS/Ann Wang/Pool Two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar after they were convicted of breaking the Official Secrets Act walked free from a prison on the outskirts of

Photo Reuters Bahrain’s premier phoned Qatar’s Emir on Monday to mark the first day of Ramadan, Qatari media said, but Manama said the call, a rare exchange amid a lengthy dispute between Doha and some of its neighbors, signaled no change in political stance. Bahrain along with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt

Sri Lankan police arrested two people after mobs attacked Muslim-owned shops in one of the towns where a Catholic church was targeted in multiple suicide bombings in April that killed more than 250, according to local media reports. Hundreds of security forces entered Negombo, north of Colombo, to impose a curfew Sunday night after dozens

The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) transits the Strait of Gibraltar, entering the Mediterranean Sea as it continues operations in the 6th Fleet area of responsibility in this April 13, 2019 photo supplied by the U.S. Navy. U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Clint Davis/Handout via REUTERS The Trump administration is deploying

Chairman of the Kenya Railways Corporation (KRC) board Mr Michael Waweru. Detectives are investigating the chairman of the Kenya Railways Corporation (KRC) board Mr Michael Waweru for possible fraud, the Sunday Nation has established. This comes as boardroom wrangles rock the institution after a section of the board resolved to sack acting Managing Director Philip