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The FBI have released images of a masked person in the hunt for news anchor Savannah Guthrie’s mother. Officials are seeking to identify the individual, who they say was armed, more than eight days after 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie disappeared from her home. Savannah Guthrie said on Monday that her family believes their mother is still alive and issued a new …

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intends to discuss possible military options against Iran with US President Donald Trump during his visit to Washington this week as Israel prepares contingencies should US-Iran talks collapse, according to two Israeli sources. Israel remains skeptical that nascent negotiations between the US and Iran will succeed, one of the sources said, but is pressing to …

UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Monday called on the international community to intervene immediately to stop more mass killings and other flagrant war crimes against civilians in Sudan. Türk said the call was necessary as the brutal Sudan war shows no signs of ending, “We can only expect worse to come” unless action is taken to halt the …

South Africa has moved to withdraw its peacekeepers deployed at the United Nations Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) after nearly three decades of service. President Cyril Ramaphosa, in a statement, said he informed UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on January 12 about the decision,. According to him, the decision is influenced by the need to …

The most volatile president in living memory is becoming ever more driven by the whiplash of his personal whims. The disciplined execution of the early months of President Donald Trump’s second term — when well-drafted executive orders reshaped Washington and America’s global priorities — are now a memory. Shuttering USAID, gutting the federal government, and assaulting the Ivy League curriculum …

Jimmy Lai leaves the Court of Final Appeal by prison van in Hong Kong, on February 1, 2021.Tyrone Siu/Reuters   Hong Kong — Former Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, ending a years-long legal battle that has come to define Beijing’s transformational crackdown on the once-freewheeling financial hub. The 78-year-old self-made billionaire was among the highest-profile …

The US negotiators will be led by special envoy Steve Witkoff (left), while the Iranian team is headed by Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi Senior US and Iranian officials are expected to meet in Oman for direct talks in the coming hours, amid a crisis that has raised fears of a military confrontation between the two countries. The discussions come after …

  No countries from the region are represented, and the board could fragment global conflict response systems that include the AU. The Board of Peace launched by United States (US) President Donald Trump last month has been widely criticised as an attempt by America’s leader to usurp the United Nations (UN) Security Council. For sub-Saharan Africa, there is an additional …

From calls for his Republican party to “nationalize” voting to his repeated false claims of a stolen election, President Donald Trump is ramping up attacks on the electoral system ahead of this year’s US midterms. The latest idea from Trump — who still refuses to acknowledge his 2020 election defeat by Democrat Joe Biden — is to take responsibility for …

The U.S. government says it has deepened its military partnership with Nigeria by deploying a special force team in the country to flush out terrorists. Gen. Dagvin Anderson, Commander of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) disclosed this during a digital news conference on Tuesday. He said the decision follows the talks he earlier held in Rome with President Bola …