Category: 2. World

The association hosting the White House correspondents’ dinner has cancelled its headline comedy performance for this year’s event after tensions with the Trump administration.

Comedian Amber Ruffin was scheduled to perform at the annual dinner…

Hundreds of thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators have returned to the streets of Istanbul, Turkey, in support of the city’s jailed mayor.

Ekrem Imamoglu, who is seen as the main political rival to Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was…

One of Japan’s biggest restaurant chains is closing its outlets for cleaning, after two incidents of customers finding pests, including a rat, in their food.

Sukiya, known for its beef-on-rice dishes, announced the temporary closure after an…

Washington’s former envoy to Kabul says an American citizen has been released by the Taliban government after being held for two months.

Zalmay Khalilzad, who served as the US special representative for Afghanistan from 2018-2021, said on the…

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Hundreds of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in the Turkish city of Istanbul to call for the jailed mayor of the city to be released. 

Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu’s detention on March 19 sparked an…

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the United States is complicit in the Israeli regime’s unlawful acts of spreading insecurity and instability in the region.

In a meeting with Hans Grundberg, the UN Special…