The US Senate on Thursday confirmed Mike Pompeo as the nation’s top diplomat in an expected endorsement of US President Donald Trump’s choice for secretary of state.  

 Bulgaria will become the euro zone’s 20th member, but it should not rush through the process, European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs Pierre Moscovici said on Friday. The Balkan country, which currently holds the EU presi

Russia ratcheted up its efforts Thursday to try to disprove that a Syrian town was hit by a poison gas attack, bringing a group of Syrians, including an 11-year-old boy, to the global chemical weapons watchdog’s headquarters to denounce the rep

THE HAGUE AFP April 27, 2018-European and US police forces have struck at the heart of Islamic State’s propaganda machine, seizing servers and “punching a hole” in its ability to spread its radical jihadist message online.  &nb

Emmanuel Macron taking a parting shot at Donald Trump and said it is ‘insane’ the US is pulling out of international treaties while predicting the President would kill the Iran deal.   

Eight young people died in flash floods that struck while they were hiking in southern Israel, medical services said Thursday.  

NEW DELHI (Compiled from AFP/ Hindustan Times reports), April26, 2018-   At least 13 children were killed and five critically injured Thursday after a train smashed into a small school bus in northern India, an official said.   

US, Daily Mail), 26 April, 2018 -   President Trump admitted Thursday his personal attorney Michael Cohen represented him ‘with this crazy Stormy Daniels deal’ but distanced himself from the lawyer who is now pleading the Fifth

Gaza, (rt.com), 26 April 2018 -   The injuries sustained by Gaza protesters at the hands of Israeli troops during the ongoing Great March of Return are unusually severe, doctors say, adding they have seen nothing similar since the Israeli c

French President Macron said Tuesday he wants to work on a new deal with Iran that brings representatives from the countries in the region to the negotiating table.   

REUTERS, 25th APRIL, 2018-The U.S. government is conducting an intensive examination of alleged atrocities against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims, documenting accusations of murder, rape, beatings and other possible offenses in an investigation tha

By Karla Adam, William Booth ·(c) 2018, The Washington Post · Apr 23, 2018 -    Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, gave birth to a baby boy on Monday morning, touching off widespread jubilation - and a few yawns - across Britain

DPA, 24th APRIL, 2018- The man suspected of deliberately driving a van into pedestrians along a busy street in Toronto is set to appear in court later on Tuesday.

DPA, 24th APRIL, 2018- A US Senate committee voted along party lines Monday to send the nomination of Mike Pompeo to be US President Donald Trump’s secretary of state to the full Senate for a vote.

BEIJING REUTERS April 24- China failed to get India’s support for its ambitious Belt and Road infrastructure project at the end of a foreign ministers’ meeting of a major security bloc on Tuesday, ahead of an ice-breaking trip to China th

DPA, 24th APRIL, 2018 - The suspected gunman in a weekend shooting that left four people dead at a restaurant in the US state of Tennessee has been arrested, bringing an end to a manhunt that lasted a day and a half, police said Monday.   

Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has pledged to write a $4.5 million cheque for this year’s U.S. financial commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement.  

REUTERS, 23rd APRIL, 2018- Kate, the wife of Prince William, gave birth to a boy at a hospital in London on Monday, the third child for the British royal couple and now fifth in line to the throne.

REUTERS, 23rd APRIL, 2018-  South Korea halted the propaganda broadcasts it blares across the border with North Korea on Monday, aiming to set a positive tone ahead of the first summit in a decade between their leaders as the U.S. president caut

Managua (dpa) 23 April 2018 - Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega scrapped reforms to the social security system on Sunday following days of violent protests in which at least 10 people were killed.    “I hope that we can enter a dialo

REUTERS, 23rd APRIL, 2018-  Armenian Prime Minister Serzh Sarksyan said he was resigning on Monday to help maintain civic peace following almost two weeks of mass street protests that have plunged the impoverished ex-Soviet republic into politic

The death toll in an Islamic State suicide bombing at a national ID distribution centre in Kabul has climbed to at least 31, a health official said.

London, Hindustan Times, 21 April 2018 - The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) has commended Bangladesh for sheltering Rohingya refugees and called for a halt to violence in Myanmar, restoration of normality and accountability of viola

KUALA LUMPUR REUTERS April 21-Two unidentified men shot dead a Palestinian man in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, Malaysian and Palestinian authorities reported, and Malaysia’s Deputy Prime Minister said the suspects were believed to be linked to a f

Istanbul (dpa) 22 April -Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday called on the United States to extradite Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, who Ankara blames for the 2016 failed coup, if Washington wants the release of a US Christian pastor

DPA, 22nd APRIL, 2018-Indian President Ram Nath Kovind has signed an ordinance that allows stringent punishments for sexual violence against children, including the death penalty for those convicted of raping girls below the age of 12 years.

A missile strike on an air base in central Syria was carried out by Israeli warplanes early Monday and caused multiple casualties, according to the Syrian and Russian governments, amid fears of a wider confrontation between world powers.

REUTERS, 09th APRIL, 2018- Donald Trump will regret it if he pulls out of the nuclear deal with Iran, President Hassan Rouhani said on Monday, warning the U.S. president that Tehran’s response would be stronger than he thinks.

REUTERS, 09th APRIL, 2018- North Korea has told the United States that it is ready to discuss the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula at the planned meeting between the two countries’ leaders, media reports said on Sunday citing US officia

Two people were killed and 20 more were injured on Saturday when a man drove a van into a crowd in the western German city of Muenster before committing suicide, authorities said.