The Government of the Sahrawi Republic and the Frente POLISARIO condemn in the strongest possible terms the decision taken by the outgoing US President Donald Trump to recognise that which Morocco does not possess, namely “sovereignty over Western Sahara”.   The position announced by Trump constitutes a flagrant violation of the Charter of the United Nations and its resolutions ...

Morocco has become the latest Arab League country to agree to normalise relations with Israel in a deal brokered with US help. As part of the deal, the US has agreed to recognise Morocco’s claim over the disputed Western Sahara region. It is the subject of a dispute between Morocco and the Algeria-backed Polisario Front, which has been seeking to ...

By: Sahar Mourad A United Nations brokered ceasefire between the Western Sahara and Morocco has been in place since 1991. The 29 year ceasefire was thrown out the window on Friday when the leader of the pro-independence group Polisario Front in Western Sahara, Brahim Ghali, declared war on Morocco. They accused Morocco of placing a roadblock stopping access to Mauritania ...

By: Simon Lewis and Jeff Mason President-elect Joe Biden said on Tuesday that nothing would stop the transfer of power in the US government, while President Donald Trump pursued lawsuits in several states in a long-shot bid to hold on to power. Mr Trump’s campaign said it would file a lawsuit to stop Michigan from officially certifying Mr Biden as the winner there ...

Austrian investigators were piecing together the Monday evening rampage through central Vienna by a lone gunman and later claimed by Islamic State, as Chancellor Sebastian Kurz called for a European response to “political Islam”. Four people were killed and 23 wounded when Kujtim Fejzulai, described as a 20-year-old Islamic State sympathiser who had spent time in prison, opened fire with ...

The US Justice Department had tried to intervene by representing Mr Trump against the lawsuit by writer E Jean Carroll, who claims he falsely denied raping her. A federal judge has rejected a US government request to drop Donald Trump as a defendant in a defamation lawsuit by a writer who said the president falsely denied raping her in a ...

Tensions between the US and China came to the fore of the annual UN General Assembly in New York, with US President Donald Trump blaming China for the spread of coronavirus. He called for China to be held «accountable» for the pandemic. In his speech, Chinese President Xi Jinping said his country had «no intention to enter a Cold War ...

US President Donald Trump says he is prepared to dip into his own fortune to fund his re-election campaign after reports emerged showing his team had blown the huge cash advantage it once held over Democratic rival Joe Biden. If Trump did substantially self-fund his campaign he would follow in the footsteps of former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, who spent ...

After striking out in their first foray in court, the Trump family got a reprieve Tuesday from the threat of a tell-all book by one of their own. For now. A New York judge temporarily blocked publication of Mary Trump›s book about her uncle, President Donald Trump, to await more information before deciding whether to block publication permanently. Mary Trump›s ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — President Donald Trump said he is seeking a new state to host this summer’s Republican National Convention after North Carolina refused to guarantee the event could be held in Charlotte without restrictions because of ongoing concerns over the coronavirus. Trump announced the news via tweet Tuesday night, complaining the state’s governor, Democrat Roy Cooper, and other officials ...