Russia on Friday contested the position of a recently adopted EU resolution that the 1939 non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union led to the outbreak of World War II. Russia’s Foreign Ministry denounced the European Parliament resolution as politicised revisionism, noting that the text did not mention Western powers’ 1938 Munich […]

By Yahaya Isah The Angolan Government on Friday explained strategies and methods adopted for implementing its state assets privatisation programme at a workshop. Representatives of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank, the country’s financial sector, business associations and chambers of commerce attended the event that ended on Friday. The State Minister for […]

United States ex-national security adviser, John Bolton hits Trump for not attacking Iran. This is a strong message considering his disagreement with Trump on just about every foreign policy hot spot. The recently departed national security adviser was speaking to a Manhattan luncheon for the Gatestone Institute, a conservative think tank he once chaired. About […]

Russia has widened a crackdown against Jehovah’s Witnesses, jailing six adherents of the Christian denomination for extremism in a move rights activists said was unjust and flouted religious freedom. A regional court in Saratov jailed six Jehovah’s Witnesses on Thursday for up to three-and-a-half years, a court spokeswoman said on Friday. “Yes they were convicted,” […]

The Tunisian government on Friday said it would allow the country’s late autocrat Zine-Abidine Ben-Ali to be buried in his homeland after his death in exile in Saudi Arabia. Ben Ali died on Thursday at a Saudi hospital at the age of 83, according to his lawyer. A 2011 popular revolt had forced Ben Ali […]