Following the 2016 referendum on Britain's EU membership, during which 52 percent of voters opted in favour of leaving the 28-member bloc, Brexit has dominated public life and political discourse. With another landmark vote on
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Dakar - In April 1966, Senegal's first president and a poet, Leopold Sedar Senghor ascended the steps of the National Assembly in Dakar to declare his country the temporary capital of Black Civilisation at
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Cubans will be able to access the internet on their mobile phones for the first time from Thursday, according to the state-run telecommunications company ETECSA. The announcement is a milestone for the Communist-run island
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South Africa's parliament has approved a report endorsing a constitutional amendment that would allow expropriation of land without compensation - a decision the main opposition party said on Tuesday it could challenge in court. Land
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"Never has homicide or murder been a function of law enforcement," declared Filipino Judge Rodolfo Azucena Jr in a landmark ruling, which may change the fate of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's bloody drug war.
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(CNN) — In a dustless, clinic-like room, workers in white lab coats get to work on their customers, stretching and pulling their faces with colorful elastic bands. "It's time for some facial Pilates," says
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(CNN)She was once the reluctant rugby player from a Rio de Janiero favela, now teenager Eshyllen Coimbra Cordoso is pulling on a Brazil jersey for the national sevens side.A keen volleyball player as a
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The United Nations continues in its push to improve the delivery of humanitarian aid with the opening of two offices in the Yemeni province of Taiz, Saudi state news agency SPA reported. The office
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RIYADH: A Yemeni government delegation flew out of the Saudi capital Riyadh early Wednesday for high-stakes talks in Sweden with Houthi militia aimed at ending the country’s devastating war, sources close to the team
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MISRATA, LIBYA: Fifteen migrants have died in a boat off the Libyan coast after spending 12 days at sea without food or water, an Egyptian survivor said on Tuesday.Only 10 migrants from the capsized
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