Donald H. Harrison

Foreign policy was prominent as the two rival contenders for the conservative ticket in next year’s French presidential election held their final campaign rallies ahead of Sunday’s primary run-off. Until recently the dark horse but now the strong favourite, François Fillon highlighted the security threat after several terrorist attacks carried out in the name of […]

San Jose (dpa) – At least nine people have been killed in Costa Rica in the wake of late-season Hurricane Otto, the government said Friday. Five were killed in Upala in the north of the country. Four others died in the nearby town of Bagaces. President Luis Guillermo Solis has called for three days of

Unionized teachers called for the government to scrap publishing a state-authored history textbook, Friday, demanding that Education Minister Lee Joon-sik resign to take responsibility for the issue. The Korea Teachers and Education Workers’ Union (KTU) denounced the Park Geun-hye administration for pushing ahead with the textbook plan despite growing opposition, especially amid the influence-peddling scandal

Rwanda’s government has demanded an apology from the Vatican over the Catholic Church’s role in the country’s 1994 genocide, dismissing the recent apology offered by Rwandan bishops. The Catholic Church in Rwanda issued a statement that was intended to be read at churches across the country on Sunday, apologizing for “all the wrongs the church

“Russia’s borders end nowhere,” Russian President Vladimir Putin declared at the annual award ceremony of the national geographic society in Moscow to roaring applause, broadcast live on state television on Thursday. “This is a joke,” Putin declared, as the cameras panned to the hall full of grinning government officials, including Minister of Defence Sergey Shoygu