Colombia's government gave the green light on Friday to resume peace talks with the country's largest remaining rebel force, a key electoral promise that brought leftist President Gustavo Petro to power earlier this week.. Prior talks failed to make it beyond the exploratory stage after right-wing former president Ivan Duque took power in August 2018.
The United States will boost trade with Taiwan in response to China's "provocative" behaviour, the White House said Friday, as it insisted on the right of air and sea passage through the tense strait.. Campbell said that the United States would also reassert its right to use international air and sea space between Taiwan and China.
North Korea has lifted a mask mandate and eased other virus restrictions, state media said Saturday, days after leader Kim Jong Un declared "victory" over Covid-19.. North Korea declared a "shining victory" over Covid earlier this week just months after announcing its first cases in May.
Henry La Cruz jumps off his motorbike, darts to a young man and grabs hold of him just before he leaps from a viaduct.. "I jumped off the (motorbike), threw myself at him and grabbed him.
The heaving wards of a ramshackle clinic in southern Afghanistan are just one sign of the catastrophic humanitarian crisis that has gripped the war-ravaged country since the Taliban returned to power a year ago.. The United Nations says Afghanistan's humanitarian crisis is the world's worst.
Not far from the rusted-out tanks and anti-landing spikes that litter the beaches of the Taiwanese island where he lives, 92-year-old veteran Yang Yin-shih reads his newspaper in the shadow of the enemy that regularly adorns its pages.. Yang witnessed China's deadliest bombardment of Taiwan's closest islands to the mainland more than 60 years ago and says the latest drills are small-fry in comparison.
Nafeesa has discovered a great place to hide her schoolbooks from the prying eyes of her disapproving Taliban brother -- the kitchen, where Afghan men rarely venture.. If a Taliban fighter asks, the girls say they are enrolled in a tailoring workshop, and hide their schoolbooks in shopping bags or under their abaya and burqa overgarments.
A shooter killed at least 11 people including two children in a mass shooting in Montenegro's central city of Cetinje on Friday, officials said, in one of the deadliest violent incidents to rock the Adriatic nation. . Organised crime and corruption have remained two major issues plaguing the country which authorities have pledged to tackle under pressure from the EU. Mass shootings, however, have been rare in the Adriatic nation. str-ds/har
Friday's knife attack on Salman Rushdie comes more than 33 years after the fatwa against him by Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in which he sentenced him to death.. Until Friday's knife attack, he had very much resumed a normal life. ccd/jmy/br/kjm
At least 11 people were killed during a mass shooting in Montenegro's central city of Cetinje on Friday, the country's public broadcaster said, in the deadliest violent incident to rock the Adriatic nation in years. . "Eleven people were killed, while six were wounded, including a member of the police," Montenegro's public broadcaster RTCG said, adding that the shooter was included in the toll.
