Huge crowds join sit-in outside Sudan’s defense ministry: witness
Hundreds of thousands of protesters joined a sit-in outside Sudan’s defense ministry on Thursday to press the ruling military council to hand over to a civilian government.
Hungary PM will look for ways to cooperate with Italy’s Salvini
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Thursday he would look for ways to co-operate with Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini because, he said, Europe needs to be governed by leaders opposed to immigration after a May election.
Venezuela’s Maduro seeks to display military loyalty in political crisis
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and key military figures made a show of unity in a television broadcast on Thursday, seeking to reject claims by the United States and the opposition that the armed forces high command was prepared to turn on him.
As assault grinds on, Tripoli lawmakers reject offensive by UAE ally
Lawmakers loyal to Libya’s U.N.-backed government on Thursday denounced an attack on Tripoli by an ally of the United Arab Emirates and defended their record in fighting terrorism, after the Gulf state said “extremist militias” ruled the capital.
Frustration over South African racial disparities builds as poll nears
After a decade of living in a tiny corrugated iron shack, Nyani Moloi was ecstatic when she was handed the keys to a two-bedroom brick house built by the government.
Ugandan pop star and critic of President Museveni freed on bail
Bobi Wine, a Ugandan pop star and lawmaker who is seeking to challenge veteran leader Yoweri Museveni for the presidency, was freed on bail on Thursday after spending two days in jail on charges of staging unlawful protests.
Prosecutors open Istanbul elections probe; re-run still looms
Turkish prosecutors launched 32 investigations into allegations of irregularities in Istanbul’s local elections and summoned more than 100 polling station officials for questioning as suspects, state-owned Anadolu news agency said on Thursday.
Russia’s Lavrov says ‘not true’ Moscow asked Maduro not to leave Venezuela: RIA
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov dismissed as untrue on Thursday assertions by U.S. officials that Moscow had urged Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro not to leave the country amid the continuing unrest there, RIA news agency reported.
Russia, Syrian army step up attacks on rebel-held northwestern Syria: residents, medics
Russian and Syrian forces intensified air strikes and shelling in rebel-held northwestern Syria overnight, the heaviest assault since the area was declared a demilitarised zone under a Russian-Turkish deal, residents and medics said on Thursday.
Turk hurt in Christchurch attacks dies, New Zealand death toll at 51: minister
A Turkish citizen who was wounded during deadly attacks at two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch on March 15 has died, Turkey’s foreign minister said on Thursday, raising the death toll from the shooting to 51.
