A senior Taliban figure has urged the group’s leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy. Sher Abbas Stanikzai, political deputy at the Foreign Ministry, made the remarks in a speech on Saturday…
Chinese leader Xi Jinping may not have personally accepted US President-elect Donald Trump’s invitation to his inauguration, but Beijing…
Pope Francis has criticized US President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to deport immigrants as a “disgrace.” The pontiff, speaking during…
The death toll from a gasoline tanker explosion in north-central Nigeria has risen to 86, the country’s emergency response…
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro accused the country’s supreme court of persecuting him on Saturday after his appeal against…
A South Korean court granted on Sunday an extension of President Yoon Suk Yeol’s detention, saying there was “concern”…
Of those injured, ten people were transferred to hospital, two with “maximum priority” and another two “who require urgent…
Three people were killed and three others were injured in an attack on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on…