Militants from the Boko Haram Takfiri group have attacked four villages in northeast Nigeria, killing a number of people. The villages of Nuwari, Musari, Walori and Kolma were targeted on Saturday. In the first three villages, armed men on trucks opened fire on people and razed much of the area, residents said on Sunday. Bunu…

Opposition parties in Bahrain say they will boycott parliamentary and municipal elections, scheduled to be held in October. The National Democratic Opposition Parties said in a statement on Saturday that that they are not taking part in the elections without a «clear political» agreement “reflecting the will of the people.” «The National Democratic Opposition Parties…

Iran has launched its first growth hormone production line, making the country a major pioneer in possessing the know-how. The somatropin production line was inaugurated at a Friday ceremony at Darou Pakhsh pharmaceutical company in the capital, Tehran. The achievement makes the Islamic Republic one of the four countries possessing the technology and saves the…

Hundreds of Brazilians including striking teachers have held a demonstration in Rio de Janeiro to protest against the huge expenses of the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Around 500 protesters marched peacefully on the City Hall on Friday to protest against the billions of dollars being spent on the football tournament. Chanting anti-World Cup slogans, the…

Russia has accused Ukraine of violating the Fourth Geneva Convention on protecting civilians in wartime by killing peaceful citizens amid Kiev’s military operation against pro-Russia activists. The Russian Investigative Committee said in a statement on Friday that Ukrainian forces have been killing and wounding peaceful citizens in their fight against pro-Russians in the country’s southern…

The latest research has released the total number of obese or overweight people across the globe that has topped 2.1 billion, about 29% of the world’s population. According to the latest report published in the Lancet, the highest rates belong to the United States, China, India, Russia, Brazil, Mexico, Egypt, Germany, Pakistan and Indonesia. The study also…

The prime minister of the self-proclaimed Republic of Donetsk says he has no information on the whereabouts of the four missing observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Alexander Borodai said on Thursday that he has no information about the European monitors, who went missing in eastern Ukraine earlier this week.…

The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) has expressed commitment for nuclear disarmament as one of the founding principles of the movement. In the final communiqué of its ministerial conference in the Algerian capital, Algiers, on Thursday, NAM also called for the creation of a Palestinian state with East al-Quds (Jerusalem) as its capital. The conference kicked off…

The economic union signed this week between Russia and its near neighbors, Belarus and Kazakhstan, spells another nail in the coffin of the waning US global hegemony. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed off on the Eurasian Economic Union in the Kazakh capital, Astana, along with his counterparts, Alexander Lukashenko and Nursultan Nazarbayev. There was evident,…

French demonstrators have taken to the streets of the capital Paris and several other cities to protest against the victory of the anti-immigration National Front (FN) party in the recent European Parliament elections. On Thursday, student protesters and rights activists alongside other people chanted slogans against the FN policies. Protest organizers said the extreme policies…