The United Nations plans to convene a second round of talks in March on settling the decades-old conflict in Western Sahara even though no major progress was made during the first round, diplomats said Tuesday. UN envoy Horst Koehler told a closed-door Security Council meeting that he intended to bring Morocco, the Algerian-backed Polisario Fron ...

Five people are dead and about 130 missing off the coast of Djibouti after two boats carrying migrants capsized, the UN migration agency said on Tuesday. The incident occurred about 30 minutes after the overloaded boats set off in heavy seas from Godoria on the Horn of Africa nation's northeast coastline, according to the International Organisat ...

China has responded to charges made by the US against the telecommunications giant Huawei as unfair and immoral . This ahead of trade talks between the US and China due on Wednesday, January 30. The United States Justice Department charged Huawei and its chief financial officer with conspiring to violate US sanctions on Iran by doing busin ...

The Netherlands on Monday refused a request by Italy to take in 47 migrants stuck on board a Dutch-flagged rescue ship that Italian ports have refused to allow to dock. The Sea Watch 3 ship, run by a German NGO, rescued the mainly sub-Saharan African migrants off Libya more than a week ago and is currently sheltering from bad weather off Sicily. ...

Superhero movie, Black Panther, won the award for outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture at the 25th Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday. A win that pushes it among the favourites for the Oscars in February. At the SAG, Black Panther was competing with heavyweights such as box-office hit, Crazy Ric ...