EDITED BY KALAHAN DENG Iranians are struggling to understand how a well-known British porn star was allowed into their country for cosmetic surgery on her nose. Candy Charms’ visit became public knowledge only after she had returned home from Iran, and posted the above picture on her Instagram account. The photo shows her wearing a black headscarf which complies with ...

EDITED BY KALAHAN DENG Celebrated Brazilian plastic surgeon Ivo Pitanguy has died at the age of 90, a day after passing the Olympic torch for the Rio Games. He died of a heart attack at home in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday, a spokeswoman said. On Friday, he had held the torch in the Rio neighbourhood of Gavea, on the ...

WRITTEN BY KALAHAN DENG More than a million people have fled their homes in South Sudan since fighting broke out in December between government and rebel forces. President Salva Kiir says it was a coup attempt, blaming soldiers loyal to former Vice-President Riek Machar for the trouble, but Mr Machar denies this.Where is South Sudan? South Sudan is the world’s ...

WRITTEN BY KALAHAN DENG When confusion and misinformation get together in the dark, paranoia is born. Fears of war, violence, and oppression fester and grow in the minds of the populace pushing everything but a misguided assurance of certain doom into the shadows. Out of this cramped and huddled mindset we get the bastardized half-brother of critical thinking: conspiracy theories. ...

WRITTEN BY KALAHAN DENG Two years ago, the so called ISIS militants in Iraq launched a vicious attack on Yazidi ethnic minority who practice faith other than the Islam. The terrorist group went wild in executing any man on their way, abducting young women, rapped them, and taken many as slaves. Their houses were looted and burned down. Older people ...

EDITED BY KALAHAN DENG Battlefield success against ISIS may produce more terrorism for the West, FBI Director James Comey warned this week. Speaking to a cybersecurity conference at Fordham University Wednesday, Comey predicted that eventually crushing ISIS in its self-proclaimed caliphate in Syria and Iraq will likely result in dispersing terrorists elsewhere. “At some point there is going to be ...

WRITTEN BY KALAHAN DENG It is true that your best friend could be your worse enemy and your worse enemy your best friend. Having said that, this world is full of all sorts of wonders that make us pause and speechless for what is happening on American political arena. Who could imagine one day that there would a war of ...

REPORTED BY KALAHAN DENG Country with biggest Turkish diaspora hosts demonstration in Cologne backing strongman leader, with turnout of 40,000. Tens of thousands of supporters of the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, have rallied in Cologne in Germany. Police put the turnout at about 40,000 as demonstrators chanting “Turkey” and waving national flags turned the rally site next to the ...

EDITED BY KALAHAN DENG The high court has ruled that the three children of a Leicester woman who tried to take them to Isis-controlled territory must live with their grandmother. Three children have been taken out of their mother’s care after a high court judge concluded she had planned to take them to an area of Syria controlled by Islamic ...

EDITED BY KALAHAN DENG High court judge says case involving British woman in Saudi Arabia raises serious issues that need to be heard in public. An academic accused of imprisoning his 21-year-old daughter at their home inSaudi Arabia has failed in an attempt to limit reporting of the case. Amina al-Jeffery – who grew up in Swansea and has dual ...