Expressing concern over a planned visit by a former American official to Taiwan for talks with the new government on the island, China today asked the U.S. to be cautious on the Taiwan issue and not medddle in China’s internal affairs.
The 54-member African Union has, since 2007, organized a peacekeeping force to stabilize Somalia, which has not had a functioning government since a civil war and a 1991 overthrow.
Thousands of posts, apparently from China, have flooded the Facebook page of Taiwan president-elect Tsai Ing-wen, demanding her self-ruled island be brought under Chinese control, though her party brushed it off and said they respected their views. However, it will have less room...
Venezuela’s government has requested OPEC hold an emergency meeting due to a collapse in oil prices that has left the country’s economy in dire straits, sources at the organization said Wednesday.
Taiwan’s President-elect Tsai Ing-wen has not only broken the gender barrier to win the highest office in the land, but she is also the first woman without any political lineage in Asia to head a government.
Government officials and military officers were tight lipped on the number of Kenyan soldiers killed or who went missing during the attack described as the worst since Kenya sent its troops to the neighbouring country to fight the Al Shabaab insurgency. If the death toll is...
Iran’s reformist political factions are calling on the country’s constitutional watchdog to reverse its decision to disqualify large numbers of moderates and reformists from running in next month’s parliamentary elections.
Russian President Vladimir Putin “probably” approved the killing of former spy Alexander Litvinenko, an inquiry in Britain concluded, triggering a row with Moscow.
The military is investigating whether the murderous Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) terror group had a hand in last Friday’s attack on Kenya Defence Forces in Somalia in which tens of soldiers are reported to have been killed.