Peru’s vice-president has resigned from her post after declining the opposition’s nomination to be interim leader, saying she hoped it would pave the way for a new general election, according to BBC report. Mercedes Aráoz said the “constitutional order had broken” and that the country faced a “grave institutional crisis”. President Martín Vizcarra on Monday […]

A plan for talks presented to the U.S. and Iran by French President Emmanuel Macron is broadly acceptable to the Islamic Republic, President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday said. Rouhani said this during a cabinet meeting that was broadcast live. He said some wording needed to be changed in the plan, which outlines that Iran will […]

Israeli Attorney-General, Avichai Mandelblit,  on  Wednesday opened a series of pre-indictment hearings to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, ahead of possible criminal indictments over corruptions, according to Department of Justice. Netanyahu will not attend the hearings and will be represented by a team of about ten of Israel’s top lawyers. Upon arriving at the Justice […]

Jamal Khashoggi’s friends, rights activists and press freedom groups will hold a memorial in Istanbul on Wednesday outside Riyadh’s consulate, where the Saudi journalist was murdered.

United States President Donald Trump suggested shooting migrants in the legs to slow them down, according to a new book. The book, by two New York Times journalists, says Mr Trump suggested extreme methods of deterring migrants from crossing the southern border, according to BBC report. They included building an electrified, spiked border wall and […]

Myanmar police say it has exposed a total of 191 human trafficking cases across the country in the first nine months of 2019. This was according to figures released by the Anti-Trafficking Police Force on Wednesday. It said that from January to September 2019, 556 traffickers were charged in connection with the cases and 279 […]

At least 25 soldiers are dead and 60 more are missing in Mali after militants attacked two army outposts, the government said. Camps in the towns of Boulkessy and Mondoro near the border with Burkina Faso came under attack on Monday. The government says their troops killed 15 militants and have since recaptured the area, […]

The United States House of Representatives’ commenced an impeachment probe into the country’s president Donald Trump call to Ukrainian president. The House probe came following an allegation Mr Trump requested the help of the Ukrainian government in probing his democrat-opponent and one-time vice president, Joe Biden and his son. The probe is reported to have […]

More than 900 people were left homeless when fire burnt their shacks in Johannesburg’s Pomona informal settlement in Kempton Park, said Ekurhuleni Mayor Mzwandile Masina on Tuesday. He stated that they are investigating what caused the fire which caused extensive damage on Monday night. “The cause of the fire is not yet established at this […]

A violent attack at a vocational school in Kuopio, eastern Finland, has left at least one person dead and 10 injured, two seriously, according to police. A Finnish police spokesman told CNN that a male suspect, who is one of the injured, is in custody after he used a bladed weapon during the “violent incident.” […]