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Zimbabwe’s president cancels trip amid protest Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has broken off a trip to Europe after violent protests in his home country. Mr Mnangagwa had been due to attend the Davos economic summit where he was expected to seek

The leaders of Japan and Russia hold crunch summit talks on Tuesday, with the two countries locked in an undiplomatic war of words over a set of disputed islands. Simmering tension between Moscow and Tokyo over the islands has ramped up

The Fourth Industrial Revolution, often called Industry 4.0, has already been set into motion. Poised to fuse industrial production with the state-of-the-art technology, it is more than a buzzword. Certainly the digitization of manufacturing has by now arrived in no small

The Taliban killed more than 100 members of the Afghan security forces inside a military compound in central Maidan Wardak province on Monday, a senior defense official said. “We have information that 126 people have been killed in the explosion inside

The Venezuelan army on Monday detained 27 members of the National Guard who stole weapons and abducted four officers, officials said. “A small group of soldiers were arrested who betrayed their oath of allegiance to the homeland,” said a statement published

Martin Fayulu’s call for protest after the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) top court declaration of Felix Tshisikedi as president-elect on Sunday flopped according to media reports. Despite the confirmation of the court, the second-placed candidate declared himself winner and called

Protesters clashed with police outside Greece’s parliament during a rally that drew tens of thousands of people Sunday against the Greek-Macedonia name deal. Demonstrators threw rocks, flares, firebombs, paint and other objects at riot police who responded with tear gas. Some

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced on Sunday that he will skip next week’s World Economic Forum in Davos in order to address mass protests against his economic policies at home. “In light of the economic situation, I will be returning home