The United States President, Donald Trump has on Monday stated he would authorise sanctions against Turkish officials and threatens to halt all negotiation with Turkey on a $100 billion trade deal. Trump said he would boost tariffs on the country’s steel to 50 per cent over Ankara’s incursions into northeast Syria. Turkey launched the cross-border […]

More than a dozen police have been shot dead in an ambush in the western Mexican state of Michoacan, authorities said on Monday, in one of the bloodiest attacks on security forces since President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took office in December. The ministry for public security said on Twitter it would use all means […]

The 2019 Nobel Economics Prize was won by the trio of US-based economists, Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer on Monday. Esther Duflo, one of the winners has set a record of being the second woman to win the prize and at the same time the youngest to ever win such. The first woman […]

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta will on Wednesday launch phase 2A of Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) linking the capital Nairobi to the resort town of Naivasha, a regional administrator said on Monday. Mbogo Mathioya, Naivasha sub-county commissioner, said that the launch of the 120 kilometers modern railway would coincide with that of an Internal Container Depot […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed trade, investments and oil with Saudi King Salman on Monday during his first visit to the kingdom in more than a decade. Putin’s talks in Saudi Arabia are part of a two-day visit to the Gulf aimed at attracting investment in Russia’s struggling economy. Russia’s economy has been crippled in […]