South Korea and the United States have reached agreement on Seoul’s contribution to the costs of the US troop presence on the peninsula, Seoul said Monday, as the two allies kicked off annual joint military exercises. The issue had bedevilled the two allies’ security alliance under former president Donald Trump, who had a transactional approach […]

Senegalese President, Macky Sall, faced mounting pressure on Sunday to speak out after a wave of deadly violence rocked the country. Five people including a schoolboy have been killed in days of clashes that erupted after the arrest of an opposition leader, the worst violence in years in a country usually seen as a beacon […]

Ivory Coast’s main opposition party on Sunday claimed victory in legislative elections in the West African nation, alleging that preliminary results were riddled with irregularities. “We think we have around 128 seats with our allies” in the 255-seat National Assembly, top party official Niamkey Koffi told a news conference in the economic capital Abidjan the […]

Scarred by the death of his mother, 36-year-old Prince Harry has struggled in the royal limelight for much of his life, and his fears for wife Meghan have now put him at loggerheads with his family. The younger son of the heir to the throne, Prince Charles, and the late Diana, princess of Wales, Harry […]

A town mayor in Italy’s Sicily region said Sunday he was stepping down after coming under fire for jumping the queue for coronavirus vaccinations. “I spent a sleepless night thinking about this decision and I concluded that it is right for me to resign,” Nicolo Nicolosi, 78, told the ANSA news agency. Nicolosi, mayor of […]