Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne said Canberra would hold China to account on issues such as human rights, insisting that staying quiet on sensitive issues is not in Australia’s national interests. Relations between Canberra and its most important trading partner have deteriorated in recent years amid accusations that China is meddling in Australian domestic affairs. […]

Lebanese soldiers and security officials have urged protesters to open blocked roads immediately on Wednesday. Security agencies said in Beirut that opening up the roads would ease movement of citizens. They said that life would also return to normal after 13 days of demonstrations that paralyzed the country and forced the prime minister to resign. […]

The parties in the Syrian civil war are sitting down at the same table for the first time after eight and a half years of bloodshed to work on a new constitution. ALSO READ: Germany charges two Syrians with crimes against humanity At noon on Wednesday, 150 delegates including 50 each from the government, opposition and […]

A 55-year-old teacher was on Tuesday, found hanging dead on a tree in his farmland at Kwesikum, a village near Agona Duakwa in the Agona East District in the Central Region of Ghana. Ghanaweb reports that the deceased, Mr Isaac Kofi Yeboah was found hanging on one of the trees on his farm with his […]

General Dynamics, one of the largest defence corporation in the world released its quarterly financial results some days ago. The report revealed that Saudi Arabia is about $3.4 billion late on payment for its Canadian-produced Light Armoured Vehicles (LAVs). This deal which was reportedly controversial ensured the supply of hundreds of LAV 6.0 advanced combat […]