Twelve people have died in Myanmar’s Rakhine state in recent clashes between armed men and troops, state media reported Wednesday, in a growing challenge for the country’s new democratically elected government. Four soldiers and one attacker were killed on Tuesday when hundreds of men wielding pistols and swords attacked troops ...
The new secretary- general of the United Nations is set to be appointed by the General Assembly on October 13, General Assembly president Peter Thomson said in his statement on Tuesday. Last week, the UN Security Council recommended to the General Assembly that Portugal’s former Prime Minister Antonio Guterres be ...