Guinea-Bissau military court orders opposition leader back to jail
DAKAR, July 13 – Guinea-Bissau opposition leader and former Prime Minister Domingos Simoes Pereira was moved back to prison last Friday following a decision by the West African country’s military…
Trump administration launches effort to isolate International Criminal Court
WASHINGTON, July 13 – The Trump administration is launching an effort to dismantle what it calls the threat to U.S. sovereignty by the International Criminal Court, a State Department official…
Iraq’s prime minister seeks big energy investments on US trip
BAGHDAD, July 13 – Iraq’s new Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi aims to secure major U.S. investment in his country’s oil, gas, and power sectors during a visit to the White…
British counter-terrorism police probing former minister Widdecombe’s suspected murder: Minister
The police are pursuing multiple lines of enquiry to establish the motivation for the attack. Read More
UK murder suspect bought gun in South Africa, possibly to kill himself, police say
JOHANNESBURG, July 13 – A man arrested in Johannesburg on Friday who is suspected of murdering his wife and two daughters in Britain bought an unlicensed gun, possibly to kill…
Inside one Havana apartment building as Cuba went dark
HAVANA, July 13 – Most nights, Frank Alfonso sleeps on the roof to escape the suffocating heat during Havana’s increasingly frequent blackouts. But on Friday afternoon, the rain arrived just…
France sends water bombers to tackle wildfire outside Paris
NOISY-SUR-ECOLE, France, July 13 – More than 400 French firefighters worked through the night to contain a wildfire in the historic Fontainebleau forest south of Paris, and authorities sent two…
Russia says it struck Ukraine’s Chornomorsk port, causing damage
MOSCOW, July 13 – Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Monday that it had struck infrastructure used for the Ukrainian armed forces’ military cargo, causing damage at Ukraine’s port of Chornomorsk,…
Hungary parliament set to oust president in Magyar’s power shake-up
BUDAPEST, July 13 – Hungary’s parliament is set to approve a constitutional amendment by Prime Minister Peter Magyar’s government on Monday to oust President Tamas Sulyok, who Magyar said was…
Cut off from Kinshasa, Congo’s AFC/M23 rebels built their own Ebola response
DAKAR, July 13 – Congo’s AFC/M23 rebels have used a small Ebola outbreak in territory they control to showcase their ability to govern, mounting a response largely separate from authorities…