Workers at South Africa’s Robben Island Museum, where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for nearly two decades, decided Thursday to suspend their strike over low pay, management said. The decision comes ahead of a meeting between unions and management on January 21, the museum said in a statement. Around 200 employees walked out on January 6, demanding […]

The United States Senate has opened the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump with quiet ceremony Thursday — senators standing at their desks to swear an oath of “impartial justice” as jurors, House prosecutors formally reciting the charges and Chief Justice John Roberts presiding. The trial, only the third such undertaking in American history, is […]

Lebanon’s security forces on Thursday released most of the 100-plus anti-government protesters detained in the past 48 hours, lawyers told AFP, after two nights of violent demonstrations in Beirut. Protesters gathered in Beirut again on Thursday evening in front of the Central Bank and interior ministry, where several hundred demonstrators denounced police use of force […]

United States President, Donald Trump predicted Thursday that his impeachment trial in the US Senate will be over quickly and again dismissed the abuse of power charges against him as “a hoax.” “I think it should go very quickly,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office as the upper chamber’s members were sworn in to […]

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Thursday said that Tehran is now enriching more uranium than before it agreed to the 2015 nuclear accord with world powers. Declaring that there is “no limit” to the Islamic republic’s enrichment of the fissile material, Rouhani said in a televised speech before the heads of banks that “pressure has […]