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WILLEMSTAD (CMC): Suriname’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Business and International Cooperation, Albert Ramdin, arrives here on Monday for talks with Economic Development Minister Ruisandro Cijntje on improving trade relations...

BRUSSELS (AP): European Union (EU) foreign ministers argued on Monday that the creation of a Palestinian state is the only credible way to achieve peace in the Middle East, and they expressed concern about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’...

JOHANNESBURG (AP): The South African government announced Friday it will challenge the auctioning of dozens of artefacts belonging to the nation’s anti-apartheid stalwart Nelson Mandela, saying the items are of historical significance and should be...

MEMPHIS (AP): Arctic weather brought more misery to much of the US on Saturday, especially for people unaccustomed to such bitter cold in places like Memphis, Tennessee, where residents were urged to boil water, and some had no water at all...

Not long after the 1924 death of the founder of the Soviet Union, a popular poet soothed and thrilled the grieving country with these words: “Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live.” A century later, the once-omnipresent image of Vladimir Lenin...

Religious officials in Haiti say that eight people, including six nuns, were kidnapped in Port-au-Prince on Friday. “[We] were saddened to learn that six nuns from the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Anne, and others from the bus they were on...

WASHINGTON (AP): United States President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finally spoke Friday after a glaring, nearly four-week gap in direct communication during which fundamental differences have come into focus over a...

KAMPALA (AP): African leaders on Friday criticised Israel for its military campaign in Gaza and called for an end to the fighting that continues to take its toll on mostly civilians. The African Union Commission Chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat...

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Gang members have raided a key community in Haiti’s capital that is home to numerous police officers and has been under siege for four days in an ongoing attack, with residents fearful of the violence spreading throughout Port-...