Seoul/Jeju, South Korea - Ko Minja has yet to meet one of the 550-plus Yemeni asylum seekers who arrived on South Korea's Jeju island earlier this year, or visit any of the areas they are living. Still,
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Iranian designated ‘global terrorist’ by US for subversive activities in Bahrain LONDON: The US Department of State designated Iran-based Qassim Abdullah Ali Ahmed as a global terrorist on Monday, according to a statement. Also
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Lyris Solis Gonzalez didn't realise her classes had been cancelled when she turned up at the University of Engineering (UNI) in Nicaragua's capital Managua on April 19. Until then, the 19-year-old architecture student didn't
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On July 17, footage emerged online of masked men hoisting a red-and-black flag emblazoned with the letters FSLN in what they said was Monimbo, a neighbourhood in the south Nicaraguan city of Masaya. "Long
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At least 40 people were killed by paramilitary forces in eastern Ethiopia over the weekend, a senior regional official said, in the latest spate of violence driven by ethnic divisions. On Monday, the Oromia
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Between 20,000 and 30,000 members of ISIL remain in Iraq and Syria despite the armed group's defeat and a halt in the flow of foreigners joining its ranks, according to a new United Nations report. Released
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Tunisia's President Beji Caid Essebsi says he will submit a bill to parliament granting women and men equal inheritance rights, in line with a proposal put forward by a government-backed committee. A report by the
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Iranian designated ‘global terrorist’ by US for subversive activities in Bahrain LONDON: The US Department of State designated Iran-based Qassim Abdullah Ali Ahmed as a global terrorist on Monday, according to a statement. Also
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SHEBAA, Lebanon: Dozens of Syrian refugees left Lebanon by bus on Monday in the latest of a wave of returns to their war-torn country, Lebanese authorities said.An AFP photographer in the southern town of
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TUNIS: Tunisia’s president on Monday proposed giving women equal inheritance rights despite protests from thousands of people objecting to any challenge to Islamic law.The North African Muslim country, which toppled autocrat Zine El Abidine
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