China has expressed “strong dissatisfaction and staunch opposition” after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited a frontier area controlled by New Delhi but...
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Mohammed Adan’s four school-age children are the latest victims of new international banking regulations aimed at terrorists, but hitting ordinary Somalis hard...
With long, everyday waits in line to buy milk or toilet paper, Venezuela’s economic crisis is proving ever more painful, as President Nicolas Maduro’s socialist...
Police in the Maldives Sunday arrested former president Mohamed Nasheed under an anti-terror law for the alleged illegal detention of a judge when he was in power...
US homeland security chief Jeh Johnson urged shoppers to be on their guard Sunday after an Islamic militant group posted a video calling for attacks by...
All 486 miners who were trapped underground at a gold mine in South Africa on Sunday have been brought to the surface, a spokeswoman for mining company Harmony Gold said...
Singapore’s richest horse race debuted Sunday with hundreds of wealthy mainland Chinese in attendance, raising organisers’ hopes that their growing interest in the sport...
The death toll in a ferry accident in central Bangladesh soared to 69 on Monday, after more bodies were recovered from the overcrowded boat which sank within minutes of...
North Korea has banned foreigners taking part in its annual international Pyongyang marathon in April because of continuing concerns over the spread of the deadly Ebola...
Climate scientists went ahead with a scheduled meeting in Kenya despite the absence of the United Nations’ top climate change official who faces sexual harassment...
Ivory Coast’s former first lady Simone Gbagbo was due to appear in court on Monday to answer to a charge of undermining state security in a high-profile trial...
A court in India on Monday granted a top UN climate change official “relief from arrest” for three days as police investigate a sexual harassment complaint...
Almost 15,000 Egyptians have flocked home from war-torn Libya via the border crossing at Sallum, state media reported Monday, after Islamic State group jihadists...
Barack Obama is expected to issue the third and most significant veto of his presidency Tuesday, embracing raw executive power in the twilight of his administration...
Police acting on a tip off from members of the public on Monday evening arrested 101 illegal Ethiopian immigrants at Tassia estate within Nairobi County. The...
Jihadists from the Islamic State group have kidnapped at least 90 Assyrian Christians in northeast Syria, a monitor said on Wednesday. The abductions took place on...
A Texas man was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after he was convicted of murdering the US Navy Seal whose story inspired...
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday nominated America’s first ambassador to Somalia since 1991, when ties soured as rival warlords took over the African nation...
Chinese factory activity expanded in February, snapping two consecutive months of contraction, a closely watched private survey showed Wednesday in a bright spot...
The year 2014 had the highest number of deaths resulting from terror attacks at 173, with Lamu County accounting for 67 deaths, while Mandera saw 64 people killed...
Rajendra Pachauri, who quit this week as head of the UN’s climate science panel following sexual harassment claims, is recovering in a New Delhi hospital from a...
Two Greeks and a Pakistani taken hostage three weeks ago off the coast of Nigeria in a bloody attack on a Greek oil tanker have been freed, the ship’s owner said...
President Uhuru Kenyatta is expected to tour Meru County on Friday and Saturday. During the two-day visit, he will issue 200,000 title deeds in different areas in the...
A former Miss Turkey beauty queen faces up to 4.5 years in prison on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on social media, the state news agency...
Avalanches triggered by heavy snow have killed more than 100 people in mountainous areas of Afghanistan and the death toll is expected to rise, officials said on...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s acceptance of an invitation to address the US Congress, without the blessing of the White House, is destructive to US...
An Egyptian who is obese and ailing was declared eligible for release Wednesday by a US government panel that reviews cases of those still held at the prison camp...
South Korea’s Constitutional Court on Thursday struck down a 60-year-old statute outlawing adultery under which violators faced up to two years in prison. The...
The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) will issue a second notice to three media houses to go back to the TV digital platform, failure to which they risk...
Marriage therapist Valerie Goss turned on her computer one day and found that all of her data was being held hostage. Malicious code referred to as “ransomware”...