(CNN)Former President George H.W. Bush is in intensive care, a day after a funeral was held for his wife, Barbara Bush, CNN has learned. Bush, 93, was admitted to the Houston Methodist Hospital Sunday morning after contracting an infection that spread to his blood, family spokesman Jim McGrath said in a statement Monday. “He is […]

President Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen (c) exits the US Federal Court on April 16, 2018, in Lower Manhattan, New York. (Photo by AFP) US President Donald Trump has expressed confidence his long-time personal lawyer Michael Cohen would remain loyal to him while under federal criminal investigation. In a Twitter tirade on Saturday, Trump lashed out […]

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (R) and his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the Islamic Republic is fully prepared to help Syria with the reconstruction of the war-ravaged country. “Just as it stood by the Syrian people in their fight against terrorism, the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran is ready […]

A handout picture released on the Syrian President Facebook page on April 19, 2018 shows a representative of Syria’s foreign affairs giving France’s Legion d’Honneur Grand Croix (Great Cross) award to a representative from the Romanian embassy, which is acting as the custodian of France’s interests in Syria, in Damascus. (Via AFP) Syria sends back […]

Cuban President Miguel Diaz Canel (R) and visiting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro meet at the Palace of the Revolution in Havana, Cuba, April 21, 2018. (Photo by AFP) Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has become the first foreign leader to visit new Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, signifying the importance of relations between Caracas and Havana. Maduro […]

People take part in a nationwide demonstration to protest against government-imposed rises in public services rates, in Cordoba, Argentina, April 18, 2018. (Photo by AFP) Thousands of Argentines took to the streets on Thursday (April 19) night to protest a sharp spike in gas and electricity rates imposed by the government, as President Mauricio Macri […]

Nabi Tajima (seen), born in 1900, died from old age at a hospital on her native southwestern island of Kikai, Japan, on April 21, 2018. (Photo by AP) The world’s oldest person, a 117-year-old Japanese woman, has died. Nabi Tajima died of old age in a hospital Saturday evening in the town of Kikai in […]

Myanmarese police Captain Moe Yan Naing (C) leaves the court following the ongoing trial of two detained journalists in Yangon, Myanmar, on April 20, 2018. (Photo by AFP) Authorities in Myanmar have evicted from police housing the family of a policeman who has testified at court how police set up two Reuters journalists who had […]

The woman who is set to become the seventh wife of South Africa’s ex-President Jacob Zuma has been forced to resign from her job at She Conquers, a non-governmental organisation, local media reports. Nonkanyiso Conco’s “affiliation” with Mr Zuma – 52 years her senior – was contrary to the organisation’s campaign to “empower young women […]

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa talks to the media after meeting Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May for bilateral talks at 10 Downing Street in central London, on April 17, 2017, on the sidelines of the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM). (Photo by AFP) South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has cut short his visit to […]