South Korea’s scandal-hit president Park Geun-Hye suffered a fresh blow Tuesday as she effectively agreed to withdraw her chosen nominee for prime minister in the face of parliamentary opposition. Park had sought to replace her prime minister as part of an extensive cabinet reshuffle aimed at restoring public trust in ...
Tunisia’s national security council on Monday adopted a strategy to fight “terrorism and extremism”, two days after the ISIL group said it had killed a soldier. The North African country has experienced a rise in religious extremism since the 2011 revolution that ousted longtime dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. ...