Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn resigned on Thursday amid widespread protests, state media reported. State-affiliated Fana said the prime minister had submitted a resignation letter to legislators and that “he hoped his resignation letter will be accepted.” “The Prime Minister said he tried his utmost effort to solve the crisis in his country and he […]
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Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said on Thursday that his country would withdraw its membership from the UN cultural agency UNESCO. “Netanyahu instructed the Foreign Ministry to prepare Israel’s withdrawal from the organisation in parallel with the U.S.,’’ the prime minister’s office said. Netanyahu in a statement praised the U.S. decision earlier Thursday to pull […]
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Friday said Australians handed in 51,000 guns during a three-month amnesty, though he rejected calls to extend it following the weekend’s mass shooting in Las Vegas. “I am not suggesting we won’t have gun amnesties in the future, but this one has been very effective because it has, as I […]
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Police have confirmed Wednesday’s killing of Mrs. Lipolelo Thabane, 58, the wife of incoming Lesotho’s Prime Minister, Tom, two days before her husband’s inauguration. The incident has raised the fears of another wave of political violence in the southern African mountain kingdom. Police spokesperson Clifford Molefe said Lipolelo was traveling home with a friend when […]
Continue ReadingPrime Minister of Czech Republic, Bohuslav Sobotka, has warned that its government did not want a larger Muslim presence in the country. He, however, said on Tuesday in Prague that while the country shared Germany’s desire to stem the tide of refugees from the Middle East, yet the country had different views on how to […]
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