Foreign News

The global number of migrant workers has risen by nine per cent to 164 million within four years, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) estimates.

South Sudan peace monitors on Wednesday said they were investigating the recent rape and sexual violence against women and girls in the Northern town of Bentiu.

Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire on Thursday said France will tax digital giants at national level from 2019  without European Union states agreement on tax on digital revenues for the bloc.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador proposed on Wednesday offering more work visas for Central Americans and said the U.S. should do the same, part of a negotiation aimed at stemming the northward flow of migrants.

South Africa’s rand is expected to erase around a third of the 10 per cent gains made in the past two months in the run-up to May elections as strong volatility rattles the currency, a Reuters poll found on Thursday.

John Dingell, a former Michigan Democratic congressman who served nearly 60 years in office, wrote that the Senate and electoral college should be abolished because of the “disproportionate influence” they award to smaller and less-populated states.

Five U.S. Marines are missing after two Marine Corps aircraft collided in mid-air and crashed into the sea off the coast of Japan.

Men with deep-rooted homosexual tendencies should not be admitted to the Catholic clergy, and it would be better for priests who are actively gay to leave rather than lead a double life, Pope Francis says in a new book.

American singer, Beyoncé has eulogised the late Nelson Mandela in a letter, thanking her for the life’s lessons learnt from him.

The relationship between Nigeria and India is a worthy one, and mutually beneficial, President Muhammadu Buhari has said. Receiving the outgoing Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, His Excellency B.N Reddy, at a farewell audience in State House Monday, the President recalled that he had his military staff college training in …