AFP, ADEN: Yemeni pro-government forces and rebels completed an exchange of hundreds of detainees on Thursday, an official said, amid a shaky ceasefire and as UN-sponsored peace talks in Switzerland entered their third day. “We have successfully completed the process of exchanging the prisoners,”…

AFP, YANGON: Aung San Suu Kyi is sending her newly-elected MPs on a crash course on Myanmar’s parliament as they prepare to take their seats for the first time early next year, her party said Thursday. The veteran  campaigner’s National League for Democracy party won a thunderous majority…

American filmmaker, political and social activist Michael Moore has sent Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump a letter chastising him on his recent anti-Muslim statements and his call to “ban all Muslims from coming to the United States,” reports Al Jazeera. In his letter, which…

AFP, UNITED NATIONS: Russian President Vladimir Putin threw his support Thursday behind a US-backed measure at the UN Security Council to ramp up sanctions against the Islamic State group and cut off its revenue flows. US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew will lead the council’s first-ever meeting…

AFP, PORT-AU-PRINCE: Several thousand people protested in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince on Wednesday against what they call massive fraud in the first round of the bitterly contested presidential vote. Police fired tear gas when some among the estimated 2,000-3,000 marchers pelted international…

AFP, BEIJING: China has summoned the US envoy to protest Washington’s sale of warships to Taiwan, as part of a massive $1.8 billion arms package, Beijing said Thursday. Taipei will get an array of missiles, amphibious assault vehicles and two frigates in the latest deal, which comes as the United…

AFP, BALTIMORE: The manslaughter trial of a Baltimore policeman accused over the death in custody of African-American Freddie Gray was declared a mistrial Wednesday after the jury failed to reach a verdict, putting the city on edge. Police were out in force in parts of the gritty East Coast city in…