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US. President Donald Trump targeted Iran’s steel and mining sectors Wednesday in his latest tough sanctions but said that he “someday” hoped to negotiate face-to-face with the clerical regime. The announcement came hours after Iran said it was suspending some limits

South Africans are voting in presidential and parliamentary elections in what is being seen as a pivotal election after years of corruption scandals that have plagued the “rainbow nation”. Some 26.8 million voters are registered to cast ballots at 22,925 polling stations. Polls

Liberia’s President and former football star George Weah has suspended his deputy information minister, Eugene Fahngon, for fuelling ethnic divisions by referring to descendants of freed slaves as “Congo Liberians”. Mr Weah’s government was committed to a “one country, one people”

Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman who spent years on death row after being convicted of blasphemy, has left the country, officials have confirmed. Her conviction was overturned last year by the Supreme Court. She was originally convicted in 2010 after

An Israeli newspaper published a document Tuesday detailing the elements of the U.S. back-channel peace plan known as the “Deal of the Century”. No American, Israeli or Palestinian authorities have confirmed the leaked document published by Israel Hayom, which is close

A suicide bomber attacked security forces guarding a famous Sufi shrine in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore on Wednesday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 20 others, police said. Hizbul Ahrar, an offshoot of the Pakistani Taliban, claimed responsibility for

Main opposition the Republican People’s Party (CHP) on Wednesday submitted a request to Turkey’s Supreme Election Council (YSK) to cancel last year’s presidential and parliamentary elections as well as the March 31 local polls across all Istanbul districts. The request was

The toll is shocking: 19 suicides, 12 suicide attempts and eight cases of serious depression among employees over a three-year span at France’s main telephone and internet company. A long-awaited trial began Monday in Paris accusing telecom giant Orange and seven