Sporadic clashes broke out on the outskirts of Yemen's Hodeidah on Friday, the first violence to hit the lifeline port city since a United Nations-brokered ceasefire was reached by warring parties, residents said.  Residents

Shares of Johnson & Johnson fell 10 percent on Friday and were on track to post their biggest percentage drop in more than 16 years, after Reuters reported that the company knew for decades that

The UN envoy for Yemen called for the urgent deployment of UN monitors to observe the implementation of a ceasefire agreement in the strategic port city of Hodeidah and the withdrawal of rival forces. 

A statue of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi has been removed from Ghana's most prestigious university following complaints that he was racist against the black Africans. The statue, installed at the University of Ghana in capital

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A Palestinian teenager was killed by Israeli forces on Friday in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah. The Palestinian Ministry of Health identified the teen as 18-year-old Mahmoud Nakhleh, who was shot in

Six security officials have been killed in an attack in southwest Pakistan when their convoy came under heavy firing in a mountainous area near the border with Iran. Pakistan's restive Balochistan province has been hit

Sri Lanka's strongman leader Mahinda Rajapaksa will step down from his disputed position of the prime minister on Saturday, his son said. Rajapaksa's legislator son, Namal Rajapaksa, tweeted on Friday that his father will

Mexico's new president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has opened the doors of Mexico's hitherto off-limits presidential palace. Mexico's president has declared that the presidential residence and office, known as Los Pinos, will become a

BEIRUT: Kurdish-dominated forces backed by air strikes by a US-led coalition retook full control of a key militant hub in eastern Syria on Friday, a war monitor said.The Syrian Democratic Forces secured Hajjin, the