Reconciliation process and Afghan mediaIt is about four decades that Afghanistan and its people are facing uncertainty, insecurity and extreme lack of basic civic facilities apparently due to none of their fault. Decades of rift and bloods...
Illicit trade in tobacco industryPrime Minister Imran Khan in his public address on the completion of 100 days in government said that only two tobacco companies, with a market share of around 60% contribute 98% of the tobacco tax co...
UK’s May ploughs on in historic Brexit missionTheresa May has proudly adopted one Conservative grandee's dismissal of her as a "bloody difficult woman". The prime minister's obduracy is on full display as she heads fighting into a Conservative pa...
Nobel laureate returns to Iraq, pledges to work for peaceIraqi activist Nadia Murad met her country's president in Baghdad on Wednesday after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for her advocacy on behalf of victims of wartime sexual violence. Murad, a member o...
‘Thumbs up’ pics for Myanmar Reuters reporters as they mark year in jailMessages of solidarity poured in Wednesday from around the world on the one-year anniversary of the arrest of two Myanmar Reuters journalists who exposed a massacre of Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine stat...
Tunisia’s ‘truth commission’ winds up 4-year missionAfter four years working "under fire" and interviewing almost 50,000 witnesses, Tunisia's commission tasked with serving justice to victims of half a century of dictatorship is poised to submit its re...
On Iraq’s border with Syria, Iran-backed militia warily eye US forcesFrom a desert hillside guarded by Iraqi Shi'ite paramilitaries, commander Qasim Muslih can spot Islamic State hideouts across the frontier in Syria. But he also keeps a wary eye on US warplanes soarin...
Michael Cohen, Trump’s loyal fixer turned tell-all accuserHe was the personal lawyer to Donald Trump and the epitome of loyalty — a man who said he would “take a bullet” for his boss. But since August, Michael Cohen has been the witness Trump fears most in t...
Pelosi gives Trump an earful, questions ‘manhood’ in privateIn public, Nancy Pelosi lectured Donald Trump on the Constitution and wagged a finger at him for characterizing her "strength." In private, she questioned his "manhood" — and her disdain for him becam...
Who might be Britain’s next prime minister if May goes?Lawmakers in British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party on Wednesday triggered a confidence vote in her leadership over Britain's planned divorce from the European. May has vowed to fight...
India voters hoof out cow minister in state electionsIndia's only dedicated "cow minister" has been dumped in state elections, ending a controversial tenure that saw hundreds of the sacred animals starve to death and poisoned on his watch. Otaram Dewasi...
China says detained Canadian may have violated NGO lawBeijing said Wednesday a detained former Canadian diplomat may have violated Chinese laws if he carried out work in the country because his employer is not legally registered in China. Michael Kovrig,...
Rights groups call for UN action on Egypt ‘reprisals’Rights groups on Wednesday called for a "robust" response to a UN expert's allegations that people she met during a visit to Egypt faced harassment, intimidation and other reprisals afterwards. A stat...
Singaporean in megachurch fraud guilty of trying to fleeA Singaporean man convicted over a multi-million-dollar fraud at a glitzy megachurch was found guilty Wednesday of trying to flee by boat a day before his sentence was to start. In a case that gripped...
At least 2 killed during DR Congo opposition rallyAt least two people were killed Wednesday in clashes with police on the sidelines of an opposition rally in eastern DR Congo ahead of this month's presidential elections, several sources said. The vio...
French police hunt Strasbourg Christmas market attackerSecurity forces were searching across northeastern France on Wednesday for a gunman who killed two people and wounded 12 others at a Christmas market in the eastern city of Strasbourg. France raised i...
Kim Jong Un’s step-grandmother dies: South KoreaThe second wife of North Korea's founder Kim Il Sung -- the step-grandmother of Pyongyang's current leader Kim Jong Un -- has died, the South's government said Wednesday. Kim Song Ae, who was born in...