The United States has denied that its day of nuclear talks with North Korea ended in failure, insisting that “good discussions” were had. Earlier, North Korea said the meeting had broken down because the US brought “nothing to the negotiation table”. Officials from the two countries met in Sweden on Saturday, in the hope of […]

Six elephants have fallen to their deaths in Thailand while trying to save each other from a notorious waterfall. Officials said the incident occurred after a baby elephant slipped over the waterfall in central Thailand’s Khao Yai National Park. Two other elephants were also found struggling on a cliff edge nearby, and have been moved […]

A military court in Cameroon has freed opposition leader Maurice Kamto, who had been in prison for nine months and facing charges of insurrection. His release, along with that of dozens of his supporters, comes as President Paul Biya is aiming to strike a more conciliatory tone. Mr Kamto was detained after organising protests in […]

A Thai judge who tried to kill himself in court after accusing his superiors of interfering with his verdicts has highlighted questions about judicial independence and fairness in the country. Judge Khanakorn Pianchana shot himself in the chest in the southern province of Yala after acquitting five defendants of charges that could have condemned three […]

Vietnam and Cambodia have signed two documents to settle the last 16 percent of their border that had yet to be demarcated. The document was signed on Saturday, on the second day of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s official visit to Vietnam. The documents, including one to support a 1985 supplemental protocol and 2005 agreement […]

U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, on Saturday announced closer cooperation, especially militarily, with Greece after meeting with the country’s Prime Minister during a trip to Athens. Pompeo and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said the NATO countries will also strengthen their ties in the energy and economic sectors. “We’re opening a new chapter in our […]

Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said on Saturday that his country will carry out military intervention in north-eastern Syria on Saturday and Sunday. “We will carry out this operation both from land and from the air,’’ Erdogan said, referring to the east of Euphrates River in Syria, which is mainly controlled by U.S.-backed Kurdish militia. […]

US President Donald Trump said Friday he will formally object to Congress’s impeachment enquiry even as he acknowledged that House Democrats “have the votes” to proceed. The White House was expected to send a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arguing that Congress cannot conduct an impeachment investigation without first having a vote to authorise […]

A takeover bid of German lighting manufacturer Osram by an Austrian company on Friday failed. AMS, a producer of sensors, said it failed in its goal to achieve the minimum acceptance threshold of 62.5 percent of Osram’s shares. Only the owners of 51.6 percent of the shares of Munich-based Osram took the offer of 41 […]

United States Democratic lawmakers have demanded documents from the White House as part of their impeachment inquiry into the nation’s president, Donald Trump. The documents relate to a call between Mr Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on 25 July. In the call, Mr Trump pushed Mr Zelensky to investigate his leading Democratic political rival, […]

The death toll in anti-government protests that have swept Iraq the past four days has soared to at least 44, security and medical sources say. The figure has nearly doubled in the past 24 hours, as clashes between protesters and police intensified. The military said “unidentified snipers” had killed four people in Baghdad, including two […]

By Temisan Amoye It is no secret that without air superiority, winning a conventional war will be virtually impossible. Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery gave credence to that assertion when he said: “if we lose the war in the air, we lose the war, and we lose it quickly”. From World War II to the ongoing […]

Environmentalists are offering a €30,000 (N11.3 million) reward for information about the presumed death of a wolf in Belgium. Last year, the wolf named Naya became the first to be sighted in Belgium for a century, according to BBC report. But local nature agencies said neither she nor her cubs had been spotted since May, […]

Tanzanian President John Magufuli has praised a senior government official for caning a group of secondary school students who were accused of setting fire to their dormitories. A widely-shared video shows regional commissioner Albert Chalamila administering beatings to a group of students who were lying face down, BBC reported. Earlier, a Tanzanian government minister had […]

Protests over fuel subsidy cuts in Ecuador have halted transport and blocked streets around the country for a second day on Friday as 350 people were jailed for unrest triggered by President Lenin Moreno’s austerity measures. The 66-year-old president has set oil producer Ecuador on a centrist path after years of leftist rule under Rafael […]