The United States Senate on Thursday passed a gigantic $1.4 trillion spending deal that pumps nearly $50 billion in extra funding into federal agencies and prevents a holiday-season government shutdown if President Donald Trump signs it as expected. The legislation — which easily passed in two parts in the Senate after clearing the House earlier […]

All Chinese townships and administrative villages are expected to be connected by asphalt or cement roads by the end of 2019, an official with the Ministry of Transport (MOT) said. Spokesperson for the ministry Sun Wenjian said that as of Sunday, there was only one township and one administrative village in southwest China’s Sichuan Province […]

Malawian police officers raped and sexually assaulted women, some of them in the presence of their children, during a security operation in October, an official state commission responsible for investigating human rights violations has said. In a damning report published on Wednesday, the influential Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) said its investigations revealed that at […]

  In what can be seen as yet another test for Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, thousands of people from the Wolayta ethnic group, in the southern part of the country, are staging demonstrations demanding their own regional state. This comes weeks after the Sidama, another ethnic group in the area, voted in a referendum […]

A Philippine court Thursday jailed 43 people — including key leaders of a powerful Muslim political clan — after finding them guilty in the trial of the 2009 mass killing of 58 people, including 32 journalists and media workers. Here are some key facts from the case: What happened? A convoy carrying members of a […]