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Tillerson Looks To Defuse Qatar Crisis On Gulf Tour
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrives Monday in Kuwait, the key mediator between Qatar and its Arab neighbours,...
Grenade Kills Eight In Northern Burundi Bar
A hand grenade blast killed at least eight people and wounded about 60 others in a bar at Shinya in northern Burundi,...
Sudan Hopes Trump Takes ‘courageous’ Decision To Lift Sanctions
Hopes are running high in Sudan that US President Donald Trump will decide this week to lift Washington's sanctions on...
Iraqi Forces Push To Clear Last Pockets of IS In Mosul
Iraqi forces fought to eliminate the last pockets of Islamic State group resistance in Mosul on Monday after the...
Syrians Displaced To the Coast Trickle Back To Aleppo
For years as fighting raged in Syria's Aleppo, property agent Saer Daqaq had fleeing residents knocking at the door of...
Syria Sides Meet Again In Geneva, With Expectations Low
Syria's government and opposition meet Monday for a seventh round of UN-sponsored peace talks in Geneva with little...
Rival Libyan Forces Battle East of Tripoli
Forces loyal to Libya's UN-backed Government of National Accord on Sunday battled rival forces in the Garabulli region...
Jihadists Battle Libya Forces In ‘liberated’ Benghazi
Jihadists are still battling Libyan forces in Benghazi days after strongman Khalifa Haftar and his self-styled army...
US Vows To Press China To Enforce NKorea Sanctions
The United States will crank up pressure on China to ensure that it implements sanctions against North Korea over its...
Iraq PM Declares Victory In ‘liberated’ Mosul
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared victory in the "liberated" city of Mosul on Sunday, his office said,...
Big Jump In African Tourists
Africans are increasingly driving the growing demand for tourism in their home continent, contrary to perceptions, a...
Trump Says Time To Work ‘constructively’ With Putin’s Russia
US President Donald Trump said Sunday it was time to work "constructively" with Russia, saying his counterpart Vladimir...
Quiet As Southern Syria Ceasefire Begins Ahead of Talks
A ceasefire brokered by the United States, Russia and Jordan brought quiet Sunday to frontlines in southern Syria ahead...
Exhausted and Mourning, Families Emerge From Mosul Ruins
With the battle to retake Iraq's Mosul from the Islamic State group drawing to an end, dozens of women and their...
Libya Strongman In UAE For Talks On Military ‘cooperation’
Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar has met with UAE leaders for talks on military cooperation, state media said Sunday,...
Quiet As Ceasefire Begins In South Syria
A ceasefire in southern Syria brokered by the United States, Russia and Jordan began at noon local time on Sunday, with...
South Sudan Marks Another Year of Freedom Without Peace
South Sudan on Sunday marked its sixth independence anniversary in muted fashion, with no official celebration as the...
Ghana Police Service Will Be Made World Class
The Ghana Police Service is striving to actualise its vision of becoming a world-class police service, Mr David...
US and North Korea Need To Talk — But How?
After North Korea's shock demonstration that it can strike the American mainland with an intercontinental missile, US...