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30 Killed In Suicide Attack At Pakistani Shrine
A suicide attack Thursday at Pakistan's Lal Shahbaz Qalandar shrine in the southern city of Shewan in Sindh province...
Somalia’s New Leader Faces Delicate Balancing Act
Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed's victory in Somalia's presidential election last week brought joyous crowds into the streets...
No More Hajj Challenges
The Chairman of the newly inducted Hajj Board, Sheik I. C. Quaye, has pledged to take the necessary steps to prevent...
NLC Boss Dismisses Any Wrong Doing In Termination of Staff Employment
The Executive Secretary of the National Labour Commission (NLC), Lawyer Charles Adongo Bawa Duah, has for the first...
UN Demands Armed Groups Stop Fighting In C. Africa
The UN Security Council on Wednesday demanded armed groups in the Central African Republic immediately halt fighting...
Gambian President ‘appoints New Chief Justice’
President Adama Barrow has appointed a Gambian lawyer and former UN prosecutor as chief justice of the country's...
Baghdad Blast ‘kills 18’ In Shia District of Sadr City
At least 18 people have been killed in a bomb attack on a predominantly Shia suburb of the Iraqi capital Baghdad,...
Iran Leader Rejects Reconciliation With Anti-Regime ‘minority’
Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday rejected the possibility of reconciliation with a "minority"...
Kidnapped Ex-Nigerian Spy ‘survived On Cashew Nuts’
A former senior official at Nigeria's intelligence agency, the State Security Service, has been recalling his ordeal...
MSF Urges Aid Access In Yemen
Doctors Without Borders on Wednesday urged all warring parties in Yemen to allow aid deliveries, saying it had treated...
UAE Envoy To Kabul Dies of Wounds From January Bombing
The United Arab Emirates' ambassador to Afghanistan has died of wounds sustained in a January 10 bombing in Kandahar...
UAE Ambassador Juma Mohammed Abdullah Al-Kaabi Dies After Afghan Blast
Juma Mohammed Abdullah al-Kaabi, centre, has died of wounds sustained in the Kandahar attack The ambassador of the...
UN ‘extremely Concerned’ Over Conditions In West Mosul
Living conditions in west Mosul, where jihadists are hunkering down among 750,000 Iraqi civilians, are deteriorating...
Taliban Suicide Bombers Kill Five In NW Pakistan
Five people were killed Wednesday when two suicide bombers attacked a government compound in Pakistan's restive tribal...
2017 Hajj In Danger As Akufo-Addo Denies Bawumia Control
Ghana’s participation in this year’s pilgrimage to the Holy land of Mecca in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has...
Jakarta Holds Governor Elections Amid Blasphemy Trial
Residents of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, are voting for a new governor, in an election overshadowed by the...
Tolerance Test As Muslim Indonesia’s Capital Votes
Jakarta goes to the polls Wednesday with the city's Christian governor fighting to keep his job in a high-stakes...
Valentine’s Day Returns To Iraq’s IS-Free East Mosul
Valentine's Day returned Tuesday to the eastern sector of the Iraqi city of Mosul from where the Islamic State group...
Thousands In Iraq Pay Homage To Victims of Baghdad Protest
Thousands of Iraqis, mostly supporters of prominent cleric Moqtada Sadr, gathered in Baghdad Tuesday to pay their...