June 26, 2015 - Page 3

A vicious fight broke out in the open Friday between Ukraine’s cash-strapped government and its foreign creditors over billions of dollars in debt that are up for negotiation next week. Ukraine’s US-born

Uganda’s opposition has launched a legal challenge to block President Yoweri Museveni from running in elections next year, claiming he is too old to be eligible to stand again. Museveni, the east

Thai police Friday arrested 14 anti-coup student activists, a lawyer said, a day after they staged a rare rally in defiance of the ruling junta’s sweeping curbs on civil liberties. The pro-democracy

Spain and Germany condemned Friday’s deadly suspected Islamist attack on a gas factory in their neighbour France, branding it “heinous” and vowing to stay united against “barbarism”. “I firmly condemn the attack

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras held talks Friday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande on the sidelines of a European summit, sources said. The meeting, confirmed by a

Haiti’s Prime Minister Evans Paul slammed the Dominican Republic’s deportation policy as discriminatory, after Santo Domingo ejected undocumented Haitian immigrants from its territory. The deportations took place over the past week since

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was on the defensive Friday after a party lawmaker reportedly suggested newspapers hostile to his hawkish military policy should be punished, calling on businesses to boycott advertising

South Africa’s opposition Friday targeted Vice President Cyril Ramaphosa among top officials they want prosecuted after the release of a report into a police massacre of 34 striking miners. The radical Economic