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US President Donald Trump has claimed credit for the pressure being placed on Qatar by Gulf neighbours who accuse it of supporting terrorism in the region. He said his recent visit to Saudi Arabia was “already paying off” and the development might mark the “beginning of the end to the horror of terrorism”. Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE, Yemen, Libya’s ...

George and Amal Clooney have welcomed twins. The human rights lawyer, 39, gave birth to a girl, Ella, and a boy, Alexander, on Tuesday morning in England. ‘This morning Amal and George welcomed Ella and Alexander Clooney into their lives,’ a spokesperson for the 56-year-old actor said in a statement. ‘Ella, Alexander and Amal are all healthy, happy and doing ...

Maseru- Lesotho’s former prime minister Thomas Thabane is poised to form a coalition government after his party won snap elections at the weekend and defeated the ruling alliance, official results released on Tuesday showed. Thabane’s All Basotho Convention (ABC) won 48 parliamentary seats and will form a coalition with three other parties to obtain the required 61-seat majority. The ABC ...

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife said he is “recuperating fast” and would soon return to the West African country from the U.K., where he has been on medical leave for much of the year. Aisha Buhari returned to Nigeria on Tuesday after spending a week with her 74-year-old husband in London. A statement circulated by her spokesman and reported by ...

The US says it is considering withdrawing from the UN body on human rights, highlighting what it calls a “biased” stance on Israel. UN ambassador Nikki Haley said the US was “looking carefully” at its role on the Human Rights Council. She said it was “hard to accept” the fact that five resolutions had been passed against Israel, a US ...

A top private investigator has described how he located the body of a woman who went missing on Table Mountain nearly two months ago. The private investigator could also reveal that Ghanaian national Charlotte Nana Yaa Nikoi, 50, was found with her cellphone, wallet and passport, “ruling out foul play”. The associate director of the United Nations International Children’s Emergency ...

A witness in the Bill Cosby sex assault trial has told the court he drugged and sexually abused her in 1998. It is the same method he is said to have used in the alleged 2004 attack on Andrea Constand he is on trial for. Mr Cosby, 79, denies the charge. His lawyer says she agreed to sex and has ...

Sales of new cars fell 8.5% in May from a year earlier, with buyers cautious in the run-up to the general election, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) has said. The SMMT said 186,265 new cars were registered in May. But sales of alternatively fuelled cars rebounded after falling in April. They now have a record 4.4% market ...

While the United States is walking away from the historic Paris Climate Agreement, India is making a bold vow to start selling only electric cars by 2030. India is one of the world’s most polluted countries. Its energy department said in a blog post that it has set the “ambitious” target to stop selling gas-powered vehicles in an attempt to clean up ...

West African regional group Ecowas has in principle approved Morocco’s membership application despite the country being in North Africa. But Ecowas leaders meeting in Liberia said the implications of its membership still needed to be considered before Morocco could formally join. King Mohammed VI was not at the summit because Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had been invited. Morocco’s application ...