Category: Foreign

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has imposed a 60-day travel ban on all government’s officials due to the worsening economic situation in the country. The ban affects all ministers and heads of other government institutions, as well as their deputies and assistants. The Presidency said officials can only be allowed to travel when it is “of utmost imperative”, and such approval can only be made personally by the president. “Exceptions will only be granted by the President herself following a one-on-one meeting with the official requesting to travel and if it…

Australian Northern Territory Police, Fire and Emergency Services has revealed that a woman called recently to complain about the high cost of marijuana in her locality. According to the unnamed woman, her drug dealer asked for far more money than she was used to paying. She couldn’t bottle her anger and so called to complain to the police. “Completely offended, the woman demanded that police investigate this ‘outrageous’ price hike. When asked for further details, she hung up,” a police officer said. The police said the call was “unusual” but…

In response to President Donald Trump’s executive order from last week on immigration, Iran has banned American wrestlers from competing in a World Cup competition by denying them visa. Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said the case was looked into by a special committee but that “unfortunately we were forced to take this step, based on the latest developments’’. Under Trump’s executive order citizens from seven predominantly Muslim countries, including Iran, are banned from entering the U.S. Iran said it would retaliate and the American wrestlers were now banned…

Iris Mittenaere, Miss France has been crowned Miss Universe on Monday in a made-for-television spectacle free of last year’s dramatic mix-up but with a dash of political controversy as the finalists spoke out on the refugee crisis and other hot-button global issues. A dental surgery student from Lille in the north of France, Iris Mittenaere, beat 85 of the world’s most beautiful women at the event in the Philippines scheduled for primetime viewing in the United States. Mittenaere, 24, edged out Miss Haiti, the first runner-up, and Miss Colombia the…

As per Donald Trumps order, the US authorities wasted no time halting Muslim arrivals, detaining travelers arriving at American airports within hours of the US president signing the tough new measures, media reports said Saturday. It was reported that airport as early as Friday night began detaining travelers, some of whom already had been aboard their flights when Trump announced his executive order closing America’s borders to refugees. Trump’s order suspends entry of all refugees to the United States for 120 days and indefinitely halts the admission of refugees from…

Impeached South Korean president Park Geun-Hye’s nude painting met a violent end at the country’s parliament Tuesday. Supporters tore the work — which evokes Edouard Manet’s Olympia — off the wall and destroyed it. The image was part of an exhibition at the National Assembly featuring works by 22 artists lampooning Park and her confidante Choi Soon-Sil, who is at the centre of the corruption scandal that led to Park’s impeachment. In Manet’s 19th-century original, on display in the Musee d’Orsay in Paris, a naked white woman widely identified as…