ERFURT: Germany’s far-right AfD party faces a key test of support in a state election in former communist east Germany on Sunday, following national outrage over a deadly shooting at a synagogue. The campaign in Thuringia has featured death threats, arson and Nazi rhetoric and the AfD’s candidate is Bjoern
Banjul: The right-hand man of Gambia’s former president Yahya Jammeh made peace Wednesday with a former fellow officer whom he arrested following the 1994 military coup for allegedly plotting against the leader. Earlier this week, former army captain Edward Singhateh had told Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Committee (TRRC) that
JERUSALEM: Journalists called Wednesday for a Palestinian court decision to close 59 websites and social media pages to be overturned, with activists saying it appeared to be aimed at silencing critics. A Palestinian Authority (PA) court in the occupied West Bank on Monday ordered the sites, most of them Palestinian,
SOCHI: Russia is showing off its next generation Kalashnikov assault rifles, helicopters and facial recognition systems as President Vladimir Putin hosts dozens of African leaders for a major summit in Sochi. The Wednesday and yesterday event at the Black Sea resort has brought together delegates to discuss everything from nuclear
TOKYO: Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met his South Korean counterpart yesterday and warned frayed relations should be mended, but appeared to suggest it was Seoul’s responsibility to make that happen. Bilateral ties between the regional neighbours are at rock-bottom over a dispute related to the use of forced labour
Nairobi: A Tanzanian court has upheld a law banning the marriage of girls under the age of 18 in a ruling praised by rights activists. The High Court in 2016 ruled that laws allowing girls as young as 15 to be married with the permission of their parents, or even
LONDON: Revitalised by the appointment of manager Brendan Rodgers and free-scoring form of Jamie Vardy, Leicester City are once again upsetting the applecart of the Premier League’s top six. Three years on from a remarkable title triumph that allowed football fans across the world to dream, third-placed Leicester could leapfrog
GENK (Belgium): Jurgen Klopp admitted his delight for Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain as the midfielder made the most of a rare start by scoring twice in Liverpool’s 4-1 Champions League win over Genk in Belgium on Wednesday. The England international, who missed almost all of last season due to injury and has
China is seizing on violent protests in Europe and South America to bolster its condemnation of pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong and defend its handling of the unrest. Recent clashes in Chile and Spain’s Catalonia have added fuel to China’s claims that Western governments and media have hypocritically supported Hong
UK Parliament Speaker John Bercow blocked Boris Johnson from holding a vote Monday on his new Brexit divorce deal, two days after MPs scotched the British prime minister’s attempt to pass it. But the decision does not kill the deal, which could appear before the house again later in the
