November 26, 2015 - Page 2

UN refugee chief Antonio Guterres warned Thursday that closing borders on Muslims fleeing violence by Islamic State is counterproductive and only risks helping the group grow stronger. Guterres’ speech in the Japanese

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu vowed Thursday that Ankara would not apologise to Moscow over the downing of a warplane on the Syrian border. Russian President Vladimir Putin said earlier his country

Russia is preparing a raft of retaliatory economic measures against Turkey after Ankara downed one of its warplanes, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday. “The government has been ordered to work out

Eighteen people were killed and 100 homes torched in an attack in the dead of night by Nigeria’s Boko Haram fighters on a southeastern village, local authorities told AFP on Thursday. “The

An Indian court has sentenced two medical workers to a year in prison for embezzling 11 rupees (17 cents) in public funds more than 25 years ago, lawyers said Thursday. The two

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has demanded that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declare  its candidate and incumbent governor of Kogi State, Idris Wada, as the winner of November 21 governorship

An Indonesian court Thursday handed three Hong Kong men long jail terms for drug trafficking, two weeks after a drug lord from the Chinese city was sentenced to death in the country.