Pro-government militiamen have made further advances against Houthi rebels in the southern Yemeni city of Aden. Fighters backed by Saudi-led coalition air strikes were reported to have taken the main seaport as well as the neighbouring district of Mualla. It comes a day after they regained con...

RANGOON — Regional integration offers greater opportunities to narcotics producers and traffickers in Burma, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said on Wednesday, at a time when Asia’s demand for methamphetamines shows signs of accelerating. The warning represents a darker take on a regiona...

The UN Refugee Agency organized yesterday a one-day field trip to Ajuong Thok refugee camp, Unity State, for the US Ambassador to South Sudan, Molly Phee. This came as a response to the Ambassador’s request to gain first-hand information about the situation of Sudanese refugees fleeing South Kordofa...

By pointblanknews.com Dozens were feared killed Friday night when an improvised bomb exploded in Gombe, capital of Gombe State. Details were still sketchy, but a security source said the device exploded as local vigilantes questioned a man whose movement in Ungwa Arawa, a suburb of the capital...

More than 200 farmers staged a protest on Tuesday in the town of Hpruso in Karenni State against land grabs by the Burmese military by marching to the confiscated farmland in question to plough it. Over 1,200 acres of farmland were allegedly confiscated about 10 years ago from 109 residents in So...