After the Fukushima disaster in 2011, Japan shut down all its nuclear reactors. The planned restart of a reactor at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant has triggered protests in the coastal city of Niigata.Japan is a step closer to restarting the world's largest nuclear power plant for...

US President Donald Trump's newly named envoy has said he hopes to help "make Greenland part of the US." Denmark, which controls the autonomous island, is "deeply angered" according to its foreign minister.Denmark is incensed at the appointment of Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry as...

Nicolas Maduro's government called the move a "grotesque threat" and said it plans to denounce the decision before the United Nations.US President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a "blockade" of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela, increasing the pressure on Nicolas Maduro's...

Former Niger State Governor and Chairman of the Former Governors’ Forum, Babangida Aliyu, has raised alarm over what he described as Nigeria’s dangerous drift towards a one-party state under the All Progressives Congress (APC).Speaking at an interactive session between the party’s National Working Committee...

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent accused the men of "flooding the United States with drugs that are poisoning the American people."The US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control published the list of sanctions on Thursday that included three nephews of Venezuela's president Nicolas Maduro...

A federal judge said the Trump administration had "no lawful basis to detain and remove" the Salvadoran immigrant and Maryland resident.A Salvadoran man at the center of a row over President Donald Trump's hardline immigration policies was released from custody on Thursday after a...