A court in South Sudan sentenced ten soldiers of that country to prison sentences for the rape of foreign aid workers and the murder of a local journalist in 2016. The prison sentences range from seven years to life imprisonment.
The Supreme Court of the Democratic Republic of Congo has definitely excluded opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba as candidate for the presidential elections in December. Reason is his condemnation by the International Criminal Court in The Hague (ICC) for bribery of witnesses and obstruction of justice. In June the ICC spoke to the former warlord surprisingly free of war crimes.
US President Donald Trump will not go to Singapore and Papua New Guinea in November for top talks with Asian leaders. In his stead, he sends Vice President Mike Pence. The White House has announced this on Friday.
Russia will no longer take American astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) from 2019 onwards. That has been announced by the Vice Prime Minister of Russia Yury Borisov.
The Iranian government has said that it has enough resources to deal with the consequences of the economic sanctions of the United States. The country will compensate any lower income due to the sanctions with additional income from the sale of oil and other natural resources.
The United States has set itself the goal of having a 'Space Force' operational by 2020. The formation of a sixth, 'extraterrestrial' part of the American armed forces is an old wish of Donald Trump. Vice President Mike Pence launched an ambitious plan for these space troops in the Pentagon on Thursday, provided there is sufficient political support.
The warring parties in South Sudan signed a peace agreement on Sunday. This is what Al-Dirdiri Mohamed, the foreign minister of neighboring Sudan, announced. Mohamed has mediated between the parties. In the African country, a bloody civil war raged over the past five years.
The US threatens Turkey with sanctions if that country does not let the American preacher Andrew Brunson go fast. Vice President Mike Pence announced this 'message from the president' on Thursday.
The return of Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum in Afghanistan did not happen without incident on Sunday. At the entrance to the airport in Kabul where he arrived, a terrorist blew himself up between supporters of the politician. Ten people were killed, according to local authorities.
Two Vice Presidents of the British Conservative party are stepping up. Maria Caulfield and Ben Bradley oppose the Brexit plans of Prime Minister Theresa May, reports British media.
A 25-year-old Dutchman was badly injured on Malta on Friday. Three other Dutch people were slightly injured. They walked early Friday morning on a boulevard of the capital Valletta. There they were scooped by a car. The driver of this had lost control of the wheel.
President Donald Trump has consulted with some of his advisers who might become the next Chief of Staff of the White House. That has been said by an initiated Thursday. Former General John Kelly, who currently holds the position, has now been in service for almost a year and could soon leave.
The police have not yet been able to discover a motive for the Saturday attack during an election meeting of Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
In a stadium where Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa held a campaign meeting on Saturday, an explosion has occurred. A spokesman for the president said that Mnangagwa was not injured and brought to safety. The Zimbabwean newspaper The Herald reported that a few other people have been injured.
The South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar has accepted an invitation to talk to President Salva Kiir next week in Addis Ababa. The Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, as a mediator on behalf of the East African joint venture, proposed to bring IGAD to the table for both rivals on 20 June. It could be the trigger for new peace talks.
Jean-Pierre Bemba, the former Congolese vice president, may leave the prison and join his family in Belgium. The International Criminal Court ICC in The Hague has determined this on Tuesday. The judges spoke to Bemba last week on appeal.
The International Criminal Court ICC in The Hague has reversed the war crimes judgment against the Congolese former vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba. In June 2016, it was sentenced to eighteen years in prison for crimes against humanity because, under his command, militia members had murdered and raped in the Central African Republic.
The president who is missing in the thriller of Bill Clinton and James Patterson is not Donald Trump. It is also not Hillary Clinton, as in a quick attempt to rewrite history. The bestseller writer and the former president in President went missing for fiction, with Jonathan Duncan as his protagonist.
North Korea is still ready to meet with the USA to discuss the issues where possible. That's what the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Kim Kye Gwan said on Friday after US President Donald Trump canceled the summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un a day earlier.
The North Korean response to statements by US Vice President Mike Pence was 'the drop' for blowing off the top talks between Donald Trump and Kim Jung-un. A government official said that.
US Vice President Mike Pence says the White House remains hopeful about a planned summit with North Korea, but the country will under no circumstances make any concessions. The summit is scheduled for June 12th and will mainly focus on the dismantling of North Korean atomic programs.
Who ordered the manipulation of the libor, the most important interbank interest rate? Those involved belittle their positions in a major lawsuit. A vice-president compares his role with that of an employee at McDonald's hamburger chain.
A US Senate committee voted Wednesday for Gina Haspel as the new director of the CIA. Haspel is President Donald Trump's candidate as the new intelligence officer. The full Senate is expected to confirm her candidacy next week.
US President Donald Trump welcomed Thursday the three Americans released by North Korea. The president, along with his wife Melania, boarded the plane that brought the three to the American air base Andrews at Washington.
The Iranian authorities are working hard to lift the stadium ban for women at football matches. That reports the Iranian news agency Isna.
The Turkish election campaign has become grim, now that physical attacks between political opponents are taking place.
The National Assembly of Cuba has formally designated Miguel Diaz-Canel as successor to President Raúl Castro, who is retiring after two terms of office. Salvador Valdes Masa has been named the new vice president of the country.
The Zimbabwean government says to dismiss the thousands of nurses who had gone on strike. Vice President Constantino Chiwenga said the activists were guilty of a 'politically motivated' protest. They are replaced by retired and unemployed nurses.
Cuba is on the eve of a new era. The National Assembly of Cuba meets and chooses Wednesday or Thursday a successor to President Raúl Castro, who after two terms of office rejects. It will be the first time that the country is no longer ruled by the Castro family since the beginning of the sixties.
US Vice President Mike Pence has called on regional leaders to do more to isolate Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro. He said at the top of American countries in Peru that Washington is not 'on the sidelines' while the country collapses.
