South Africa’s ruling party on Tuesday condemned “disparaging remarks” attributed to US President Donald Trump about the country’s late first black president Nelson Mandela. In a memoir to be released this week, Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen accused the president of making racist comments about black leaders — including his predecessor Barack Obama and South […]

The US Justice Department is seeking to take over President Donald Trump’s defense in a defamation lawsuit from a writer who accused him of rape. After New York state courts turned down Trump’s request to delay E. Jean Carroll’s suit, Justice Department lawyers filed court papers Tuesday aiming to shift the case into federal court […]

Prince Harry has repaid 2.4 million pounds ($3.2 million) in British taxpayers’ money that was used to renovate the home in Windsor intended for him and his wife Meghan before they gave up royal duties and moved to California. A spokesman for the couple said Monday that Harry had made a contribution to the Sovereign […]

Somali National Army on Tuesday killed 14 al-Shabab militants following an early morning attack at the strategic town of Bal’ad, 30 kilometers north of the Somali capital Mogadishu. Ismael Omar, Government spokesman who confirmed the incident, said a government soldier also died in the attack while seven civilians were injured in the latest attack in […]

Nearly 300 Rohingya migrants reached Indonesia early Monday claiming to have been at sea for seven months, United Nations officials said, in one of the biggest landings by the persecuted Myanmar minority in years. The migrants — including more than a dozen children — were spotted at sea on a wooden boat by locals who […]