Prime minister-designate Hichem Mechichi unveiled Tunisia’s second government in six months on Tuesday. He had said that he wanted a team dominated by independent technocrats, to “present...

White House counsellor Kellyanne Conway announced Sunday evening she will leave her post at the end of August to focus on her family. Known for what she described as the administration’s use of “alternative...

Kamala Harris on Wednesday became the first black woman to accept nomination for the office of  vice president of the United States from a major political party. Speaking from an empty convention hall,...

Joe Biden has been officially declared the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee, thereby making him their challenger to President Donald Trump in the November election. In a virtual roll call...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has suspended Mali from all decision-making bodies of ECOWAS and placed economic and financial embargo on the country following the military takeover...

Mali’s President, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has resigned from office under duress from mutinying soldiers who yesterday, seized him from his home and took him to a location outside the capital, Bamako....

India’s death toll from the coronavirus hit 50,000 on Monday, with more than 900 new fatalities reported in 24 hours, according to health ministry data released on Monday. India had  last week overtook...

The United Kingdom on Thursday said it will reimpose quarantine for travellers from France and the Netherlands. France quickly announced that it would take a “reciprocal measure”. The UK government...

Iran and Turkey lashed out at their regional rival, the United Arab Emirates on Friday over its decision to normalize diplomatic relations with Israel in a US-brokered deal.It accused the UAE of betraying...

Poland is experiencing its first recession since the end of the communist era more than three decades ago. The economy shrank by 8.9 percent in the second quarter because of the effects of the coronavirus...

The UK economy is officially in recession for the first time since the financial crisis ten years ago. The  economy plunged by 20.4% in the second quarter of 2020, compared to the first quarter as a result...

Presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, Joe Biden announced on Tuesday that Senator Kamala Harris will be his vice presidential candidate and running mate in the US November election. Joe Biden...

Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab has announced the resignation of his government this Monday following the August 4 explosion in Beirut’s port which stirred public outrage and calls for a complete overhaul...

At least 78 people have died and more than 4,000 others injured as two huge explosions rocked the Lebanese capital, Beirut on Tuesday. Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun later said in a statement that...

United States President, Donald Trump has given popular Chinese-owned video app TikTok six weeks to sell its US operations to an American company. He said on Monday that Tik Tok would be “out of business”...

Nobel Peace Prize winner and Northern Ireland politician, John Hume has died aged 83. He was one of the founding members of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) in 1970 and went on to lead the...

American President, Donald Trump on Thursday suggested that the upcoming US presidential election scheduled for  November this year be postponed. He claimed the election would be “the most inaccurate”...

The death toll in the United States due to the coronavirus surpassed 150,000 on Wednesday, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University. The country’s coronavirus death toll was 150,676...

President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Robert O’Brien, has tested positive for COVID-19. The White House confirmed that Robert O’Brien has “mild symptoms” of the virus –...

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro announced on Saturday he has tested negative for the new coronavirus more than two weeks after being diagnosed as positive on July 7, attributing his recovery to an unproven...