The Trump administration said on Thursday it plans to allow only 18,000 refugees to resettle in the United States in the 2020 fiscal year, the lowest number in the history of the modern refugee program. In a move immediately decried by immigrant advocates as an affront to the nation’s humanitarian commitments, the administration said it […]

The body of Robert Mugabe will be buried in his home town, following a final twist in a row over the former Zimbabwean leader’s resting place. Mugabe died this month aged 95 and a funeral was held in the capital Harare. The government had resisted his family’s wish for him to be buried in his […]

Twelve people were rescued on Thursday and no one was killed after a three-story building under construction collapsed in Sierra Leone. The incident occurred in the southern city of Bo, the second-largest city in the West African country after the capital, Freetown. Four of the rescued were hospitalised and released and eight others were still […]

Iran President Hassan Rouhani challenged countries who accused Iran of carrying out this month’s attack on a Saudia Arabian oil facility to provide evidence. “Those who make the allegations must provide the needed proof. What is your evidence?” he told reporters in New York, a day after addressing the UN General Assembly, according to Aljazeera […]

The United States Trump administration has released the much-anticipated transcript summary of Donald Trump’s phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky after Mr Trump authorised publishing the transcript. A memo summarising the call shows that the president urged Zelensky to probe Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, who sat on the board of a […]