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S/ARABIA: US and UK ministers boycott Saudi summit

US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and UK International Trade Secretary Liam Fox have pulled out of an investment conference in Saudi Arabia. Their

ETHIOPIA: Protesting soldiers wanted to kill me – PM

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has said that some of the soldiers who entered the grounds of his office last week had wanted to kill him. At the

MALDIVES: Opposition seeks to bar president from leaving country

Opposition in the Maldives asked the police to bar President Abdulla Yameen from leaving the country hours after he announced plans to step down in th

RUSSIA Crimea attack: College shooting is ‘globalisation’ result

The deadly gun and bomb attack on a college in Crimea “appears to be a result of globalisation”, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. “On social

BRAZIL: President’s lawyers attempt to block corruption charges

Lawyers for Brazil’s President Michel Temer have asked the country’s top court to annul a federal police report that recommended he and his close asso