The Republican Party-controlled House of Representatives on Thursday shelved a controversial legislation prohibiting "late-term" abortions, approving instead a measure denying public funding for the said procedure or insurance policies covering such.Read More
U.S. and Iraqi forces have started to prepare for an assault by summer to retake Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, from its Islamic State occupiers, America's top commander in the Middle East said.Read More
More than one in eight Danish voters want a party more critical of immigration than the already-hardliner Danish People's Party (DF) as the Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West (PEGIDA) movement spreads to Denmark.Read More
The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has marked "educated, professional" women for execution, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has disclosed.Read More
The first doses of the experimental vaccine against Ebola virus by drug manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline have reportedly been shipped to the Liberian capital of Monrovia.Read More
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi vowed on Thursday to make the country attractive to foreign investments despite the region's continuing political strife even as he defended the crackdown on political opponents.Read More
As more than 1,300 civilians have been killed in Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, evangelist Franklin Graham is urging Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to agree on a ceasefire during the 10 days of Easter observances.
Suspected Fulani herdsmen shot to death four people, including a pastor and two women in two separate attacks in Benue State on Tuesday, according to Nigerian media reports.