With Africa’s population set to double by 2050, economists say the continent must ditch traditional farming methods in favour of modern technology     African farming must modernise and replace its ageing workforce if the continent is going to be able to feed its rising population, a report by ...

  Tehran has promised crushing response if US president makes ‘strategic mistake’ of listing elite force as terrorist entity   In the 11 months since Donald Trump’s election, Tehran has been at pains to avoid kneejerk reactions. The measured responses to the US president’s pronouncements on Iranian activities have revealed ...

Google has identified tens of thousands of dollars in ad buys by Russian accounts that used YouTube or Google advertising to try to spread misinformation and sow discord in American politics, sources familiar with the company’s investigation told CNN. These accounts used YouTube, Google search advertising, Gmail advertising and Google’s ...

  SOUTH Korea’s military is ready to deploy a powerful weapon that can totally paralyse North Korea in the event of a nuclear war.     SOUTH Korea is ready to deploy graphite bombs that can paralyse North Korea’s power grid in the event of a nuclear war. Military sources ...

  Dr. Hasan Askari Rizvi The recently-concluded foreign minister-level interaction between Pakistan and the United States showed that there are wide gaps in the foreign policy dispositions of the two countries pertaining mainly to Afghanistan, countering terrorism in the region and a framework for bilateral cooperation. The only redeeming feature ...

  NORTH KOREA warned it “would not flinch” from “the road to bolstering up the nuclear forces” unless the USA backed down from its “hostile” and threatening policy towards Pyongyang.   And Pyongyang’s permanent representative to the United Nations said the United States and Donald Trump should “take the lead” ...

        Extremist soldiers forego martyrdom to hand themselves in at Kurdish interrogation centre in northern Iraq after loss of regional stronghold in morale-sapping defeat     The prisoners were taken to a waiting room in groups of four, and were told to stand facing the concrete wall, ...

Female fighters almost killed by Isis on Sinjar mountain vow to liberate their fellow Yazidis – and all other women who suffer at the hands of oppressors   The flags and pictures on the wall of the Raqqa home serving as a Yazidi women’s unit seem familiar, even though they can’t ...

8TH Session of ESCWAو Committee on Women Kicks off in Presence of Arab Concerned Ministers and Expertsو Beirut, 04 October 2017. United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of ESCWA Mohamed Ali Al-Hakim, today said: “Even as we welcome the positive developments with regard to guaranteeing equality and social justice in ...

    Aung San Suu Kyi is to be stripped of her Freedom of Oxford award because of her response to the Rohingya crisis. Burma’s de facto leader, who completed her undergraduate degree at Oxford University, was granted the honour in 1997 for her “struggle for democracy”. But Oxford City Council voted unanimously to ...