Washington's top diplomat set off for Africa on Tuesday to tour countries that form a new theater for competition with America's ambitious great power rival China. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's trip to Ethiopia, Kenya, Djibouti, Chad and Nigeria will take him to new battlefields in the United States' long war against Islamist extremism. ...
US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, will make his first official trip to Africa when he visits Chad, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Nigeria from Tuesday, March 6 to Tuesday, March 13, 2018. It will be President Donald Trump 39;s first significant outreach to a continent his administration has not focused on since coming to power in January, 20 ...
Australian batsman David Warner and South Africa wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock were both charged by the ICC on Tuesday over their spat during the first Test in Durban. CCTV footage showed Warner apparently turning on De Kock as the players walked up a narrow staircase leading to the dressing rooms at the start of the tea break during the fourth d ...
Indian tax officials Tuesday raided several properties belonging to the Gupta brothers over alleged money laundering, officials said, as the politically-connected business family faces a massive corruption scandal in South Africa. Inspectors from the tax department, aided by armed policemen, raided nearly a dozen Gupta properties in their hometo ...
Eight soldiers were killed and 61 injured, as well as 24 civilians, in last week's twin attacks in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou, the authorities said Tuesday, adding that eight jihadist assailants also died. The previous official toll from Friday's twin assault on the country's military headquarters and the French embassy had been seven so ...
A significant drop in Indian girls being forced into marriage has led a global decline in the number of child brides, the United Nations said Tuesday. According to UN children's agency UNICEF, 25 million child marriages have been prevented around the world in the last decade, with the sharpest drop in India and the rest of South Asia where girls ...
Australian legend Shane Warne said players should stop whinging about sledging after an ugly row between David Warner and South Africa's Quinton de Kock clouded the first Test in Durban. CCTV footage showed Warner apparently turning on De Kock as the players walked up a narrow staircase leading to the dressing rooms during the tea break on Sun ...
The ruling party candidate seeking to succeed President Ernest Bai Koroma as Sierra Leone's president claimed Monday he was his boss's biggest legacy to the country as election campaigning wrapped up. The ruling All Peoples Congress (APC) held a rally attended by thousands in the northern city of Makeni while the opposition Sierra Leone People ...
Shipments of protected African species including tortoises, pythons and parrots to Asia have soared since 2006 as demand grows in the Far East for exotic pets, meats and other animal products, a new study warned Tuesday. Wildlife imports of leopard tortoises, African spurred tortoises and ball pythons into Asia increased nearly tenfold in a deca ...
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