Centrist Emmanuel Macron has become France’s youngest ever president after results showed he had beaten Far-right Marine Le Pen by a commanding margin of 65 percent to 35 percent in…
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North Korea says it has detained a US citizen on suspicion of “hostile acts” against the state. Kim Hak-song worked at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST) and…
Gunmen mugged 129 migrants on a rubber dinghy headed for Europe and also stole the craft’s engine, abandoning them off the Libyan coast, Libya’s navy said on Saturday. Navy spokesman…
The World Bank has resumed direct budget support to impoverished Malawi with an $80-million injection three years after donors pulled out due to a “cashgate” corruption scandal, officials said Saturday.…
Former Mauritanian President, Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, died on Friday of heart attack, the presidency said in a statement. Mauritania announced a three-day mourning period. Born in 1953 in Nouakchott,…
North Korea accuses US CIA of plot to kill Kim Jong-un
US and South Korean agents are plotting to kill North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, North Korean state media report. A statement by the ministry of state security said a “terrorist…