Deep in central Mali, what was supposed to be harvest season for villagers has become a season of starvation, death and destruction. Mali’s health ministry says so far hundreds of people have died from what it describes as a man-made famine, as farmers and herders fight over land. It is an ancestral conflict that takes […]

United States President Donald Trump on Friday lashed back at a new round of Chinese tariffs by heaping an additional 5% duty on some $550 billion in targeted Chinese goods in the latest tit-for-tat trade war escalation by the world’s two largest economies. Trump’s move, announced on Twitter, came hours after China unveiled retaliatory tariffs […]

United Kingdom (UK) Prime Minister, Boris Johnson warned today that migrants would be sent back if they crossed the English Channel to the UK. The Prime Minister’s comments came after a surge in attempts – with nearly 100 people taking to small boats to try to make the crossing from France to the UK in […]

Authorities in Tunisia have arrested a controversial presidential candidate and founder of a major private television channel, Nabil Karoui, according to his political party. The 56-year-old is one of the main challengers contesting the September 15 election following the death of President Beji Caid Essebsi last month. Karoui was charged with money laundering in early […]

A former Houston police officer has been charged with felony murder in connection with a deadly January drug raid that killed a couple and injured several officers, prosecutors announced Friday. The January 28 raid came under scrutiny after police alleged one of the officers who was shot, Gerald Goines, lied in order to obtain a […]