US: President Trump announced Thursday that Defense Secretary Jim Mattis would leave his position in February, marking the departure of an influential figure who has steered the Trump administration toward foreign policy continuity and restraint. Mattis’s departure could add new uncertainty to which course the administration might take on its global challenges, including Iran and

IHA Photo Violent anti-government protests broke out Thursday for the second consecutive day in a string of cities across much of Sudan, including the capital Khartoum where police used tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters and an eastern city where at least two protesters are said to have died in clashes with police. In

Parliament ratified controversial draft law allowing to move ‘unwanted’ migrants to a remote island COPENHAGEN, Denmark Danish parliament approved on Thursday a controversial draft law allowing authorities to move “unwanted” migrants to a remote uninhabited island once used for contagious animals. Harshly criticized by human rights groups, the draft law was ratified with the support

The U.S. House of Representative vote declaring persecution of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar a “genocide” should encourage other nations to follow suit, a senior rights activist said. In an interview with Anadolu Agency on last week’s vote, Harn Yawnghwe, son of Myanmar’s first president Sao Shwe Thaike, said the move “affirms the action taken

Omar al-Bashir expresses hopes Syria will soon recover important regional role in talks with President Bashar al-Assad. Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir has become the first Arab League leader to visit Damascus since the war in Syria began nearly eight years ago. Syria’s state-run news agency SANA said al-Bashir was greeted on Sunday at the capital’s

Forensic experts search for evidence after a bomb blast outside the Greece’s SKAI TV building in Athens, Greece December 17, 2018. REUTERS/Costas Baltas A powerful blast smashed windows and wrecked offices at Greece’s SKAI TV in Athens on Monday in what officials called an attack on democracy. No one was injured. SKAI is one of

Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen spent Friday night at Ryerson University addressing what he says are a number of myths surrounding Canada’s recent signing of the UN Global Compact on Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration. Hussen had just returned from Marrakech, Morocco where 164 countries signed onto the symbolic agreement — the first of its kind

Four men have been denied bail in a case involving the alleged extortion of protection money from Somali shopkeepers based in Delft, Cape Town. The four appeared in the Bellville Magistrate’s Court on Friday after their arrest for the alleged extortion of protection money amounting to R2 000 per business. In denying them bail, Magistrate

Turkish academic Prof. Dr. Ramazan Gençay, a Simon Fraser University (SFU) economics professor, has vanished in the city of Medellín, Colombia and been missing for almost a week. Gencay, also a Canadian citizen, traveled to Colombia on Nov. 28 to attend several seminars at the Center for Research in Economics and Finance of the EAFIT

Washington -The Senate voted Thursday to end U.S. support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen in a rebuke to Saudi Arabia, a long-time U.S. ally. The resolution was passed in the chamber 56-41. The bill was co-sponsored by Independent Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah, gaining renewed momentum following