US President Donald Trump has announced in his State of the Union speech that he will hold a second nuclear summit with North Korea’s leader between the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth…
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British Prime Minister Theresa May has said that she would be “armed with a fresh mandate and new ideas” when she meets European Union negotiators over her Brexit deal. EU…
US to send military aid to Venezuela as France demands vote
The US says it is sending aid to crisis-hit Venezuela following a request from Juan Guaidó, the opposition leader who has declared himself interim president. Mr Guaidó’s move last month…
South Africa’s largest labour union plans nationwide strike over mass layoffs
South Africa’s largest labour union group, with more than a million and a half members, has said that it will stage a nationwide strike on the thirteenth of February over…
Trump lashes out at US spy chiefs over Iran, North Korea and ISIL
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday called top US intelligence chiefs “extremely passive and naive” on Iran and dismissed their assessments of the threat posed by North Korea a day after they contradicted his views during…
Tanzania MPs grant government sweeping powers over political parties
Tanzania’s parliament passed amendments to legislation late on Tuesday that give sweeping powers to a government-appointed registrar over political parties, a move that opposition legislators say would effectively criminalise political…