-- 2018-10-07 12:53:17
Former Nigerian minister Obiageli Ezekwesili, co-founder of a group to raise awareness about more than 200 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014, on Sunday announced that she will run for president ne...
Reuters 2018-10-07 11:57:45
An earthquake that struck off the northern coast of Haiti late on Saturday killed at least 11 people and injured more than a hundred when several buildings collapsed in the impoverished Caribbean coun...
-- 2018-10-07 11:31:00
Brazilians will vote on Sunday in a polarised presidential race that could result in the election of a far-right former Army captain, whose praise of past dictatorships enrages critics but whose promi...
-- 2018-10-07 10:50:39
Tens of thousands marched through the streets of Edinburgh on Saturday to show support for Scottish independence from the United Kingdom, a cause Scottish nationalists say has drawn strength from Brit...
-- 2018-10-07 10:36:23
The Republican-controlled US Senate on Saturday confirmed Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, dismissing anger over accusations of sexual misconduct against him and delivering a major victory to Pre...
-- 2018-10-06 19:42:13
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has vowed to 'finish' Kurdish militants in Iraq’s Sinjar and Qandil regions to avenge eight Turkish soldiers killed in a bomb attack in south-eastern Turkey earl...
-- 2018-10-06 19:38:12
European Council President Donald Tusk has said the EU and the United Kingdom will likely reach a Brexit deal before the end of this year. “I have a hope, which is close to certainty, that at t...
-- 2018-10-06 19:26:08
Around 50 people died and another 100 suffered serious burns after a fuel tanker collided with a vehicle in Congo on Saturday. Deputy Governor of Kongo Central province, Atou Matubuana Nkuluki, said...
-- 2018-10-06 18:23:07
A large poster of President Paul Biya hangs like a street sign in Cameroon's western city of Bafoussam. "The force of experience," reads the poster in reference to President Biya's 36 years in power,...
-- 2018-10-06 17:36:12
A highly venomous green mamba snake that escaped from its presumed owner on Tuesday after biting her in the Czech capital, Prague, has been caught. The snake had gone into hiding in a Prague district...
-- 2018-10-06 15:59:13
Torrential rains drenching the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, have caused considerable damage to many homes and led to the disappearance of one person, Honduran authorities reported on Friday. Accord...
-- 2018-10-06 15:26:25
Egypt used air force helicopters on Saturday to fight a fire which swept through palm plantations in the southwest of the country, threatening residential areas, state news agency MENA reported. The...
-- 2018-10-06 13:35:42
The chance of the UK and the EU agreeing a Brexit deal has grown in the last few days, the head of the European Commission has said. Speaking to the Austrian press, Jean-Claude Juncker said that whil...
-- 2018-10-06 10:17:12
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman dismissed remarks by Donald Trump in which the US president said he had warned the king he would not last in power “for two weeks” wit...
-- 2018-10-05 22:48:32
Afghan officials have reacted angrily to speculation that foreign military contractors could take over training and advising the Afghan armed forces, following a renewed push by the founder of private...
-- 2018-10-05 18:52:12
An airstrike by security forces killed four people and wounded eight others who were part of a wedding procession in the southeast province of Kandahar, officials said on Friday. Abdul Raziq, the Kan...
-- 2018-10-05 17:50:48
Leader of the opposition in the Pakistan national assembly Shahbaz Sharif was arrested on Friday in a corruption case. The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) of Pakistan arrested the former Punjab...
-- 2018-10-05 17:25:05
In the third floor hallway of the Pentagon, just outside the Army Chief of Staff's office, there is a pigeon. Walking the corridors, the lifelike pigeon stands out among the cases of military history...
-- 2018-10-05 17:02:32
An airstrike by security forces killed four people and wounded eight others who were part of a wedding procession in the southeast province of Kandahar, officials said on Friday. Abdul Raziq, the Kan...
-- 2018-10-05 16:49:18
French police have reportedly started an investigation after Meng Hongwei, the chief of the Interpol, was reported missing. Meng Hongwei, a former Chinese government minister, was reported missing af...
-- 2018-10-05 16:16:22
Two figures, Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and Iraqi Yazidi activist Nadia Murad, have won the Nobel Peace Prize of this year for their contributions to combating sexual violence against women as a w...
-- 2018-10-05 14:34:04
About 320 people were injured when a packed train travelling from South Africa’s business hub Johannesburg to the capital Pretoria crashed into the back of a stationary train, Metrorail authorit...
-- 2018-10-05 13:30:42
A Seoul court on Friday jailed former South Korean President Lee Myung-bak for 15 years for corruption, making him the latest in a string of high-profile political and business leaders ensnared by gra...
-- 2018-10-05 11:59:29
Pakistan on Thursday has ordered 18 international aid agencies to shut down operations and leave the country, said the ActionAid charity, in what would be Islamabad’s latest move against foreign...
-- 2018-10-04 15:48:24
A drunk police officer shot dead two colleagues in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Thursday, state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporation reported. The policeman who fired on his colleagues wa...
-- 2018-10-04 15:10:20
India's top court is allowing the first deportations of Rohingya Muslims to Myanmar since it ordered their identification last year. The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a plea by attorney Prashant...
-- 2018-10-04 11:56:29
Seven US law enforcement officers have been shot, one of them fatally, in an incident in South Carolina, officials say. Police in the city of Florence had been responding to a call for help from the...
-- 2018-10-04 11:40:25
The UK government has accused Russia's military intelligence service of being behind four high-profile cyber attacks. The National Cyber Security Centre says targets included firms in Russia and Ukra...
-- 2018-10-04 11:32:23
Six rescue divers have drowned while trying to save a teenager from a disused mining pool in Malaysia. They were searching for a 17-year-old boy who is thought to have fallen into the body of water w...
-- 2018-10-04 10:20:06
The European Union is considering trade sanctions on Myanmar over the Rohingya crisis, potentially stripping the country of tariff-free access to the world’s largest trading bloc, three EU offic...
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