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Angola's likely next president Joao Lourenco on Monday declared war on graft in the notoriously corrupt country, as he starts...

The Egyptian pound strengthened against the US dollar on Monday, regaining ground after record lows which followed the central bank's...

Iraqi forces backed by jets and helicopters battled their way towards southern Mosul on Monday and prepared to take on...

Hundreds of families were fleeing from both sides of Pakistan's border with Afghanistan Monday, officials said, as Islamabad continued a...

The commander of the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group said Monday he expected its forces would be allowed...

The head of a real estate firm in Nigeria's biggest city has been charged with manslaughter after at least 35...

An Israeli court is expected on Tuesday to sentence Elor Azaria, a soldier convicted of manslaughter for shooting dead a...

Guadalupe Guereca wants just one thing: "Justice." In a choked voice, the 59-year-old woman recounts the death of her teenage...

Prosecutors in Saudi Arabia are seeking the death penalty for a suspect accused of opening fire on German diplomats, a...

Israeli ministers were upbeat Monday on the prospects of working with the new US administration, even after remarks by President...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's visit to Algiers was called off on Monday because President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was "temporarily unavailable" due...

FIFA president Gianni Infantino will be in South Africa and Zimbabwe this week to meet African football bosses and attend...

South African retail firms Steinhoff International and Shoprite Holdings announced Monday they had scrapped plans to merge their local assets...

As Iraqi forces fight to take back Mosul from the Islamic State group, archaeologists trained by the British Museum are...

Four Russian military personnel were killed and two injured when their vehicle was targeted with explosives in central Syria last...

The convoy of Libya's contested unity government chief, Fayez al-Sarraj, came under gunfire in Tripoli on Monday, without causing any...

Women have been named to head Saudi Arabia's stock exchange and a major bank, the institutions announced, despite the kingdom's...

Bangladesh police on Monday detained an Islamist who had been sentenced to death in his absence in 2015 for planning...

An estimated 2,000 IS fighters are left in west Mosul to defend their bastion against a massive offensive by the...

A senior member of the personal security retinue of Thailand's new king has been fired and stripped of his titles,...