Iran will not open talks with the United States that will only benefit Donald Trump, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Friday, insisting the US president’s sanctions policy had failed. Decades-old tensions between Tehran and Washington have soared in the past year, with the sworn enemies appearing several times to come to the brink of […]

The WTO’s bid to pick an acting chief before September has been complicated by US “politicisation” of what should have been be a straightforward process, a diplomatic source lamented Thursday. The World Trade Organization, already engulfed in multiple crises, could be left with no one at the helm if it fails to find a replacement […]

Ivory Coast’s defence minister, Hamed Bakayoko, was named prime minister on Thursday, after acting as interim premier since the sudden death of Amadou Gon Coulibaly on July 8, the presidency announced. Considered a close associate of President Alassane Ouattara and a pillar of the regime, Bakayoko, 55, has had the defence portfolio since 2017, after […]

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said that the November presidential election might have to be delayed, citing unsubstantiated claims that mail-in voting could result in fraud. “With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. “It will be a great embarrassment to […]

Herman Cain, a US businessman and one-time Republican presidential candidate, has died after a month-long battle with coronavirus, his website announced. He was 74. Cain died in an Atlanta-area hospital, where he was admitted in early July, according to Newsmax, where he had been set to launch a weekly television program. “Herman Cain — our […]