Mogadishu: Coastguards in northern Somalia exchanged gunfire Thursday with armed men aboard a boat heading towards a hijacked oil tanker where pirates are...
Mogadishu: Coastguards in northern Somalia exchanged gunfire Thursday with armed men aboard a boat heading towards a hijacked oil tanker where pirates are...
DAMASCUS: A hospital in an opposition-held part of Damascus has seen its third kidney dialysis patient die since the beginning of the year,...
At least two people have been wounded in a shooting at a high school in southeast France, according to local authorities. Schools in...
Freetown: A pastor working in the mines of eastern Sierra Leone has unearthed a 706-carat diamond, the government said Thursday, pledging to hold...
ROME: Italy evacuated 22 wounded Libyans for medical treatment in Rome, some of whom were involved in fighting this week for control of...
Yaounde: At least 55 people were killed and around 575 others were injured in Cameroon's train crash in the tourist capital Yaounde. A...
Athens: A Greek far-left group on Thursday claimed it sent a parcel bomb to the German finance ministry, over six years after waging...
Taipei: Taiwan said for the first time publicly that it is capable of launching missiles at China, as the government on Thursday unveiled...
London: Queen Elizabeth II gave royal assent on Thursday to a bill empowering British Prime Minister Theresa May to trigger Article 50 of...
Beirut: Rebel factions, including Al-Qaeda's former Syria affiliate the Fateh al-Sham Front, issued rare denials of any involvement in twin suicide attacks that...
ANKARA: The biometric data of nearly 3 million Syrian refugees has been registered, the Turkish migration authority said Wednesday. The Directorate General of...
ANKARA: Turkish security forces Wednesday killed three PKK terrorists in southeast Turkey, provincial officials said. In a statement, the Sirnak governor’s office said...
WASHINGTON: A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation Wednesday to raise the number of visas for Afghans who have helped U.S. forces in...
NAIROBI, Kenya: Kenya’s public debt stands at around 50 percent of GDP but the government is not in danger of failing in its...
SRINAGAR, Jammu Kashmir: A 7-year-old girl was killed in a gun battle between Indian police and militants Wednesday, police said. Three militants were...
CAIRO: Egypt is training Libyan forces with a view to “safeguarding the country’s security and stability”, Khaled al-Bakly, secretary-general of Egypt’s National Security...
LEFKOSA, Northern Cyprus: The UN will not arbitrate further in negotiations to reunify Cyprus, the UN secretary general’s special adviser said Wednesday. Espen...
KABUL, Afghanistan: Some two million children are not attending schools across Afghanistan as ragging violence continues to wreak havoc in the country. According...
