A suicide bomber killed nine police officers and wounded 16 others Monday in an attack on their truck in southwestern Pakistan, officials said. Security forces have been battling a years-long insurgency by militants in Balochistan demanding a bigger share of the province’s wealth, as well as attacks by the Pakistan Taliban (TTP). “The suicide bomber was […]

Almost 300 people returned from Tunisia to Mali and Ivory Coast on Saturday after boarding repatriation flights, fearful of a wave of violence since the president launched a tirade against migrants. Last month President Kais Saied ordered officials to take “urgent measures” to tackle irregular migration, claiming without evidence that “a criminal plot” was underway […]

The Federal Government has summoned the Burkina Faso envoy to Nigeria, Pascal Gouba, over alleged murder of 16 Nigerians who were on a pilgrimage to Kaolak, Senegal over a month ago.

Chinese President Xi Jinping said that he stands ready to work with leaders of African countries to build a high-level China-Africa community with a shared future.

Jimmy Carter, the 98-year-old former US president who led the nation from 1977 to 1981, is receiving hospice care at home, where he will spend his “remaining time,” his nonprofit foundation said Saturday. Carter, the oldest living former president and a Nobel peace laureate, resides in Plains, Georgia, with his wife, Rosalynn. That hamlet is […]

A German court on Thursday sentenced two Afghan brothers to life in prison for murdering their sister because they disapproved of her “modern” lifestyle. The victim, a 34-year-old mother of two identified as Maryam H., was found buried on a hill in Germany’s southern Bavaria region several weeks after going missing from her Berlin home […]

President Joe Biden was declared “fit for duty” by his doctor Thursday after the final annual medical check-up before he is expected to declare he’s running for re-election in 2024, when he will be 82.

“The severity and the breadth of the damage that we are seeing has not been experienced in a generation,” Prime Minister Chris Hipkins told a news conference on Tuesday.

At least three people were killed Monday and five others injured when a gunman opened fire on a university campus in the United States.

Rescuers pulled a seven-month-old baby and a teenage girl from the rubble yesterday, nearly a week after an earthquake devastated Turkey and Syria and killed more than 28,000.