A soldier looks out from behind a wall before a counter-assault on Islamist gunmen at the Splendid Hotel in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, January...
A soldier looks out from behind a wall before a counter-assault on Islamist gunmen at the Splendid Hotel in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, January...
Human rights groups have criticised the policy against asylum-seekers arriving by boat and the detention conditions, but the Australian government has argued the...
Montreal: One person was killed and another injured following an explosion at an oil sands plant in western Canada, the Canadian subsidiary of...
A CH-53E Super Stallion, used by the Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 463 aboard Barber's Point Naval Air Station, Marine Corps Base Hawaii on...
A view shows vehicles on fire outside Splendid Hotel in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in this still image taken from a video January 15,...
OUAGADOUGOU: Security forces in Burkina Faso launched an assault on Saturday to recapture a hotel in the capital stormed by suspected Islamist militants...
Nicolae Timofti CHISINAU: Moldova’s president nominated a compromise candidate backed by a parliamentary majority for the role of prime minister on Friday potentially...
Migrants stay in queue during heavy snowfall before passing Austrian-German border in Wegscheid in Austria, near Passau November 22, 2015. REUTERS VIENNA: Austria...
Chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Lieutenant General Sergei Rudskoy (R) and spokesman for...
BAMAKO: Armed men attacked a food convoy in northern Mali on Friday and four attackers and two soldiers were killed, as Islamist militants...
Montreal: The Toronto Star newspaper has hired an outside printer and plans to shutter its press and lay off 285 workers, the company...
Heavy smoke billows during an operation by Kurdish forces backed by US-led strikes in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar on November 12,...
Nicolas Maduro CARACAS: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s socialist government decreed on Friday a 60-day “economic emergency” for the recession-hit OPEC nation reeling from...
The Hague: Dutch police have arrested a former soldier suspected of killing Islamic State group jihadists while fighting alongside Kurdish forces in Syria...
Jim Sayer, Deployment Director at the University of Michigan's Mobility Transformation Center, drives his car at the Mcity testing facility in Ann Arbor,...
ROME: Italy decriminalised a long list of minor crimes on Friday, from obscene acts to blunders by cannabis researchers, to ease pressure on...
A refugee holds her baby after being rescued from a sinking dinghy off the Greek island of Lesbos on September 7, 2015. AFP ...
Cape Town: A giant billboard calling for President Jacob Zuma to be ousted appeared in central Cape Town Friday, startling the normally sleepy...