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The majority of the Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by militants from the town of Dapchi last month have been returned, the ...

South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma is to face prosecution for 16 charges of corruption relating to a multi-billion-dollar arms ...

The Islamist militant group Boko Haram has released 13 people who were kidnapped in north-eastern Nigeria last year, the government ...

A former militia leader from the Central African Republic (CAR) has been elected to the executive committee of African football’s ...

Tens of thousands of Hindus moving from Pakistan to India continue to languish in makeshift camps near the border with ...

A Malaysian lawmaker has come under fire for saying that women denying sex to their husbands was a form of ...

Wildfires in south-eastern France have forced the evacuation of 10,000 people overnight, officials say. Hundreds of firefighters have been deployed ...

Wildfires in south-eastern France have forced the evacuation of 10,000 people overnight, officials say. Hundreds of firefighters have been deployed ...

A Vietnamese activist was jailed for nine years on Tuesday for "anti-state activity", her lawyer said, the second such heavy ...

The police chief in Minneapolis, speaking out for the first time Thursday, strongly criticized the actions of one of the ...

A wall collapsed at a football stadium in Senegal on Saturday, killing eight people and injuring almost 90. It fell ...

Eight people have died and at least 49 are injured after a wall collapsed at a football stadium in Senegal. ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in Paris to commemorate the victims of a mass arrest of Jews in Nazi-occupied ...

Eight people have died and at least 49 are injured after a wall collapsed at a football stadium in Senegal. ...

A group of Afghan school girls taking part in a robotics competition in the US have been granted visas to ...

Thai police say eight people died after gunmen opened fire inside a village chief’s home, in a rare mass shooting. ...

About 100 government supporters have burst into Venezuela’s opposition-controlled National Assembly, where they beat up several lawmakers. Witnesses said the ...

US President Donald Trump is to argue that the future of Western civilisation is at stake in a keynote speech ...

Two Vietnamese men have been beheaded by Philippine Islamist group Abu Sayyaf, the country’s military said. Their bodies were found ...

A clear majority of German MPs have voted to legalise same-sex marriage, days after Chancellor Angela Merkel dropped her opposition ...