International News

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has called for urgent and coordinated global action to end child labour, saying nearly 138 million children remain trapped in the practice worldwide. ILO Director-General,...

United States President Donald Trump and his grandchildren Kai Madison Trump attend the National Basketball Association (NBA) finals game between the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs at the...

Xenophobia in South Africa Four days ago, Mozambican immigrant Lado Amido answered a knock at his door in the South African town of Kleinmond. Outside, an angry crowd told him...

President Trump at the Golf course Donald Trump, the oldest person to be inaugurated the US president, has completed his annual medical check up but this has sparked global alarm,...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has called on governments to ban flavours and additives, including menthol, in tobacco and nicotine products to protect children and young people from addiction. WHO...

It would be a mistake to underestimate the risk posed by the Ebola outbreak, the WHO regional director for Africa said on Friday, warning ​that just one case could spread...

The call for help came in early May. A cruise ship off Cape Verde was stranded, with passengers suspected of infection by a deadly strain of hantavirus that kills about...

Three supertankers were crossing the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday carrying oil bound for Asian markets, after ​waiting in the Gulf for more than two months with 6 million barrels...

An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda has ‌been declared a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organisation, after 80 suspected deaths...

The Ghanaian government has announced plans to evacuate 300 of its nationals from South Africa following a violent surge in xenophobic attacks targeting migrants from sub-Saharan Africa. Foreign Minister Samuel...