Category: 4. World

Authorities in Tunisia have begun dismantling dozens of makeshift camps housing African migrants as part of a sweeping operation to clear areas along the Mediterranean coastline and ease tensions with local residents.

The camps, located on privately owned land, have long been the…

A former North Korean commando who took part in a failed 1968 mission to assassinate the then South Korean president has died at the age of 82.

Kim Shin-jo, the only North Korean to be captured alive during the raid, famously admitted that he and his colleagues had come “to slit the…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has held a first meeting with pro-Kurdish politicians who are working to bring an end to the 40-year insurgency between the state and Kurdish militants.

Erdoğan met Pervin Buldan and Sırrı Süreyya Önder, parliamentary deputies for the…

On the eve of the EU-Central Asian Summit in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan announced the discovery of a large deposit of rare earth elements.

The find was made in Karagandy, the central region of Kazakhstan.

Now dubbed “New Kazakhstan,” the deposit is said to have almost 1 million tonnes of…