Johannesburg: As France officially handed over its only military base in Ivory Coast on Thursday, the ceremony marked another phase in the former colonizer’s diminishing presence in Africa. Over the past few years, France and its military have been st…

Kyiv: Reports that US President Donald Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social, is blocked across Ukraine are ‘false,’ a Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman said Thursday. Social media users earlier claimed they were unable to access Truth Social…

Bratislava: The Slovakian president on Thursday did not rule out the deployment of troops in Ukraine but said it would be ‘premature’ to make any commitment as uncertainty about the guarantees to ensure the sustainability of such a measure remained. ‘…