US says to hold first in-person talks with Taliban since Afghan...
WASHINGTON - The United States and the Taliban will hold their first in-person talks since the US withdrawal from Afghanistan starting Saturday, the State...
Sierra Leone abolishes ‘inhumane’ death penalty
FREETOWN - Sierra Leone's president on Friday signed a bill abolishing the death penalty, declaring the West African country had "exorcised horrors of a...
Trump tries to block testimony on January 6 uprising: media
WASHINGTON - Former president Donald Trump has told four former senior aides not to comply with a congressional probe into the January 6 attack...
Texas clinic resumes providing abortions after judge blocks law
WASHINGTON - A Texas clinic resumed providing abortions on Thursday to women who are more than six weeks pregnant after a federal judge temporarily...
Abdulrazak Gurnah: accidental author and voice of displaced
LONDON - Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Tanzanian-born author awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, has been a sharp observer of colonialism and immigration during a...
French senator calls Taiwan a ‘country’ in visit China protests
TAIPEI - The head of a French delegation of senators on Thursday called Taiwan a "country" during a visit to Taipei, risking fury from...
‘Beach’ coworking spaces the new craze in Sao Paulo
SAO PAULO - After 18 months of being locked up by coronavirus pandemic restrictions, Brazil's largest city Sao Paulo is breathing again, thanks in...
Pope expresses ‘shame’ at French sex abuse scandal
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis on Wednesday expressed personal shame at the sexual abuse of children by French Catholic clergy, after the scale of the...
Indonesia conducts test flight using jet fuel mixed with palm oil
JAKARTA: Indonesia conducted its first test flight using jet fuel partially from palm oil on Wednesday, a senior minister said, as the country plans...
Sequencing, mRNA, or maybe nanocrystals? Wide-open field for Nobel Chemistry Prize
STOCKHOLM - Breakthroughs in DNA sequencing, innovative gas storage, nanocrystals or a second chance for mRNA Covid-19 vaccines? Speculators on the Nobel Prize in...
