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Mauritania Referendum Campaign Starts Under Opposition Boycott
Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz launched campaigning Friday for a constitutional referendum boycotted by...
Eight Dead In Senegal Stadium Crush
Eight people were killed during Senegal's football league cup final in Dakar on Saturday in a stampede that broke out...
Looking For Liu Xiaobo? Chinese Police Keep Close Watch
A group of plainclothes officers appeared like ghosts from behind tombstones next to the crematorium where the body of...
Shell Removes Malaysian Woman Cutouts Over Groping Pics
Energy giant Shell said it is removing life-sized cutouts of a Malaysian woman in a headscarf from its petrol stations...
Philippine War Refugees Facing Deadly Health Risks
More than 200,000 people displaced after Islamist militants attacked a southern Philippine city are facing deadly...
Internet, Social Media Back In Ethiopia After Block
Ethiopia re-activated cellphone data services and unexpectedly allowed access to social media sites that had been...
Anti-IS Fighters Near Raqa Delight In American Weaponry
Chorche was like a kid in a candy store in front of crates packed with US weapons to help an Arab-Kurdish alliance take...
Fierce Clashes As US-Backed Force Battles IS In Syria’s Raqa
US-backed fighters fought fierce battles Thursday as they tried to push further into the Islamic State group's Syrian...
Myanmar Child Servants Abused As Legal Protections Prove Elusive
Playing with a tiny kitten is the only thing that stops 13-year-old Myat Noe crying as she lies in a Yangon hospital,...
Ariana Grande Resumes Tour In Paris Amid Tight Security
Fans turned out Wednesday evening for the resumption of US singer Ariana Grande world tour in Paris, more than two...
Morocco Arrests Leader of Northern Protest Movement
Authorities in Morocco on Monday arrested the fugitive leader of a protest movement that has shaken the country's...
Third Night of Protests In Northern Morocco
Protesters have rallied for a third night running in Morocco's city of Al-Hoceima, in a northern region of the country...
Four Killed In I.Coast Clashes Between Ex-Rebels and Police
Four people were killed when police clashed with former rebels barricading the road into the Ivorian city of Bouake, as...
Moroccan Ministers Tour Key City In Neglected Region
Morocco's interior minister led a large government delegation Monday to the northern city of Al-Hoceima which has been...
Rebel Soldiers Block Access To I.Coast’s Second-Largest City
Defiant soldiers blocked access to Ivory Coast's second-largest city on Saturday after firing guns into the air...
Gunfire As I.Coast Troops Resume Protest Despite ‘apology’
Disgruntled Ivorian soldiers took to the streets of Abidjan and two other cities on Friday, firing angrily into the air...
Festive Mood and Tight Security For Tunisia Jewish Festival
An annual Jewish pilgrimage to Africa's oldest synagogue on Tunisia's Djerba island began on Friday under tight...
Gunfire In I.Coast Barracks After Rebels ‘apologise’ For Mutiny
Sporadic gunfire rang out overnight in a military barracks in Ivory Coast's second city of Bouake, where a mutiny...
Clashes Erupt At Palestinian Protest To Support Hunger Strikers
Clashes erupted in the occupied West Bank on Thursday between Israeli soldiers and hundreds of Palestinians protesting...