Politics
Kurdish PKK says withdrawing all forces from Turkey to north Iraq
By Shwan Mohammed with Hazel Ward in Istanbul AFP The Kurdish militant PKK began withdrawing all of its forces from Turkish soil ...Cambodia, Thailand sign peace pact following deadly July clashes
By Jan HENNOP AFP US President Donald Trump co-signed a truce between Thailand and Cambodia during the first stop on his Asia ...Russia faces a shrinking and aging population and tries restrictive laws to combat it
BY KATIE MARIE DAVIES AP For a quarter century, President Vladimir Putin has faced the specter of Russia’s shrinking and aging population. In 1999, ...Africa’s ageing presidents govern world’s youngest populations
The presidents of Cameroon and Ivory Coast, 92 and 83 respectively, are each seeking to extend decades of rule, reflecting a trend ...Iraq faces elections at a delicate moment in the Middle East
ByQASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD — BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq is weeks away from parliamentary elections that will set the country’s course during one of ...Khartoum’s shattered factories pick up the pieces as war rages
By Eltayeb Siddig Reuters In the heart of Khartoum state’s largest industrial zone, an engineer bends over a broken machine with a ...Putin supervises nuclear forces drills as sanctions mount on Russia over its war against Ukraine
By Dmitry Antonov, Pavel Polityuk and Jeff Mason MOSCOW/KYIV/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States hit Russia’s major oil companies with sanctions on Wednesday ...Massive strike in New Zealand as 100,000 demand better pay and conditions
By Lucy Craymer Reuters More than 100,000 New Zealand teachers, nurses, doctors, firefighters and support staff walked off the job on Thursday ...Russia launches deadly barrage on Ukraine after Putin–Trump summit shelved
By Pavel Polityuk Reuters Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine killed six people, including two children, and forced power outages nationwide, ...General strike, protests paralyse Tunisia’s Gabes over pollution crisis
By Tarek Amara Reuters A general strike and tens of thousands of protesters brought the southern Tunisian city of Gabes to a ...














