WASHINGTON POST, 29th JANUARY, 2017- An ominous week-long standoff between the government and its rogue first vice president is choking traffic and dominating talk in the edgy Afghan capital. Police units have been stationed at strategic points near

REUTERS, 29th JANUARY, 2017- Prime Minister Theresa May said Britain did not agree with U.S. President Donald Trump’s curbs on immigration after coming under criticism from lawmakers in her own party for not condemning his executive order when

Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto hit back at Donald Trump’s order to start building a wall separating the country from the United States - and vowed that Mexicans would not foot the bill, despite what Trump has said.  

(Courtesy Aljazeera) .25.01.2017 -   The United Nations has denounced recent Israeli initiatives to accelerate settlement construction in occupied Palestinian territory, stressing that “unilateral actions” are an obstacle to peace ba

DAKAR AFP Jan26, 2017  -Jubilant Gambians were preparing to welcome home their new president on Thursday after a protracted crisis over an election dispute that forced him to flee to neighbouring Senegal.  

The Hindu/ JANUARY 26, 2017-India’s 68th Republic Day was celebrated in the capital on Thursday with a display of military strength and cultural diversity in the presence of Chief Guest Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahy

Daily Mail/26 January 2017-   A fight has erupted between police and thousands protesting ‘Australia Day’ after a man allegedly tried to set fire to a flag.   

Donald Trump will take a first step toward enacting his pledge to “build a wall” on the Mexican border Wednesday by issuing an executive decree.  

REUTERS, 25th JANUARY, 2017- Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday she would publish her plan for Britain’s exit from the European Union in a formal ‘White Paper’ to allow parliament to scrutinize it.

Israel announced plans on Tuesday for 2,500 more settlement homes in the occupied West Bank, the second such declaration since U.S. President Donald Trump took office signaling he could be more accommodating toward such projects than his predecessor.

SRINAGAR AFP Jan25, 2017  -Avalanches killed five people in Indian-administered Kashmir on Wednesday -- four members of a family whose home was buried under snow and a soldier stationed at a military base.  

REUTERS, 25th JANUARY, 2017- Islamist militants rammed a car bomb into the gate of a hotel in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Wednesday and stormed inside, killing at least 15 people, government officials said.

The British government’s Brexit plan will be put to the test on Tuesday with a landmark court ruling on whether it has the right to kick-start the country’s EU departure without parliamentary approval. 

Police and troops killed three militants in two separate gunbattles in Indian-administered Kashmir on Tuesday, one of them near the de facto border with Pakistan, officers said.  

RT.COM/23 Jan, 2017 -  Dmitry Medvedev has been reelected as chairman of parliamentary majority party United Russia. Other senior leaders of the party also retained their posts and State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin joined its Supreme Co

THE HINDU, 24th JANUARY, 2017-The Centre on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that it would withdraw its 2016 notification allowing bull taming sport Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu in view of the  fresh legislation, 

JAKARTA AFP /Jan24, 2017-  Indonesia denied Tuesday that United Nations peacekeepers from the country had sought to take weapons out of Sudan’s conflict-wracked Darfur after they were allegedly caught leaving the region with arms.  &n

A huge avalanche swallowed up a luxury mountain hotel in central Italy after a series of strong earthquakes rocked the area, burying up to 30 people under tonnes of snow and debris, officials said on Thursday.   

DAVOS AFP /Jan19, 2017- Asia will push ahead with a Chinese-supported free trade agreement if Donald Trump follows through on pledges to ditch the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), global leaders in Davos were told Thursday.  

MOSUL AFP Jan19, 2017  - Iraqi forces battled the last holdout jihadists in east Mosul Thursday after commanders declared victory there and set their sights on the city’s west, where more tough fighting awaits.   

Daily Mail/ 19 January 2017-   North Korea is preparing to test another missile, with the country’s eccentric leader Kim Jong-un possibly planning a high-profile launch to coincide with the inauguration of Donald Trump as US President on F

RT.COM/19 Jan, 2017-  Russia has already invited the United States to take part in the upcoming talks on Syria, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told the press.

At least 52 aid workers and civilians were killed on Tuesday when an air force jet accidentally bombed a camp in northeast Nigeria instead of Boko Haram militants

Daily Mail/ 17 January 2017-  Yemeni female fighters took to the streets carrying their toddlers, rocket launchers and machine guns to send a powerful message to the Saudi-led coalition who have played a part in a two-year war that has claimed 1

WASHINGTON (AP/Daily Mail) / 18 January 2017— They line up near the Oval Office, down the hallway toward the Cabinet Room, trailed by their spouses and young kids in their finest clothes. When it’s their turn, the White House staffers ent

Mexico’s Mayan Riviera was rocked by a second shooting in two days, leaving a total of nine people dead in a major tourist destination that had avoided the violence plaguing other regions.   

Brazilian police were forced to fire rubber bullets at inmates after a brutal prison riot claimed 26 lives. 

What has been billed as the last chance for Greek and Turkish Cypriots to reunite the island nation appears to be tantalizingly within reach -- but it might not get there without a nod from Russia.   

The video opens with the story of 89-year-old Naru Kuromiya, a Japanese-American who spent her childhood on a chicken farm in Riverside, California. 

One might have thought that 2016 closed the door on the terrible Zika virus. But just weeks into a new year, Zika has reared its ugly head - this time in southwest Africa.