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The US is withdrawing more than half of its staff at its embassy in Cuba in response to mysterious attacks which left its diplomats...

Nigeria is setting up special courts to speed up the trial of corruption cases and give a boost to President Muhammadu Buhari’s efforts to...

Islamic State militants have released what appears to be an audio recording of their leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.A speaker who sounds like the IS...

The proverbial game of chicken between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has only escalated in recent months, but amid...

A five-year-old Nigerian boy, who was seriously injured when he was run over by Boko Haram militants three years ago, has taken his first...

Former US first lady Michelle Obama on Wednesday criticized women who voted for President Trump, saying they voted against their own interests.“Any woman who voted against Hillary...

At least 14 people have been killed and eight injured in an attack on a drug rehabilitation centre in the northern Mexican city of...

Women will be allowed to drive for the first time next summer in Saudi Arabia, the ultra-conservative kingdom announced Tuesday, marking a significant expansion...

The President of the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) Isha Johansen, who has been charged with abuse of office and misuse of public funds...

A blind female Ethiopian lawyer has been named a joint winner of the 2017 Right Livelihood Award, also known as Sweden’s alternative Nobel Prize.The...

The floor of Uganda’s parliament witnessed chaotic scenes on Tuesday as legislators debated a motion around presidential age limits.A leading media outlet, NTV Uganda described the...

Kenyan MP Paul Ongili, better known as Babu Owino, has been charged with insulting President Uhuru Kenyatta, the Daily Nation newspaper is reporting.Mr Ongili...

Several dozen conservative Catholic scholars and clergy have charged Pope Francis with spreading heresy, a bold but perhaps futile salvo against Francis and his...

Former U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner was sentenced to 21 months in prison on Monday for sending sexually explicit messages to a 15-year-old girl, setting...

Sri Lankan authorities have arrested a man for allegedly trying to smuggle gold and jewellery weighing up to 1kg (2.2lb) hidden in his rectum.Customs...

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Abuja after spending three days in London for a routine medical checkup after the United Nations General...

North Korea’s foreign minister has accused US President Donald Trump of declaring war on his country. Ri Yong-ho told reporters in New York that North...

Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka says being a traveling teacher has become "a way of life" as he takes up a post as visiting professor...

North Korea's foreign minister has accused US President Donald Trump of declaring war on his country.Ri Yong-ho told reporters in New York that North...

The United States has expanded its controversial travel ban to include people from North Korea, Venezuela and Chad.The White House said the restrictions follow...

Kenya’s opposition candidate Raila Odinga has told DW that some changes need to take place at the electoral commission if he is to take...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been re-elected for a fourth term in federal elections, exit polls suggest.Her conservative CDU/CSU alliance has won 32.5% of...

How far would you go to save water? Well, for the head of a provincial government in South Africa, it seems there is no sacrifice...

26-year-old Irshad, will be living without his penis as his 30-year-old angry lover who lured him to a guest house in Kattipuram, India, after...

A Pakistani couple united in an arranged marriage over 24 years ago recently learnt that they were in fact of the same parents, SMACK...

How far would you go to save water?Well, for the head of a provincial government in South Africa, it seems there is no sacrifice...

At least 50 migrants are feared drowned after their boat ran out of fuel and capsized off the Libyan coast.The dinghy, which had been...

Liliane Bettencourt, the heiress to cosmetics firm L'Oreal, has died aged 94, her family has confirmed.A statement said she had died at home "peacefully"...

President of the United States of America, Donald Trump has reiterated the commitment of his country to partner with the African Union to end...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday was met with silence when he congratulated the leaders of African countries on the continent's economic progress, telling them,...

Kenya's Supreme Court has blamed the country's electoral commission (IEBC) for its decision to annul the re-election of President Uhuru Kenyatta.The judges said the...

Togo will hold a referendum in the coming days to limit presidential terms, after parliament failed on Tuesday to agree the reform that the...

A strong earthquake has struck central Mexico, killing at least 44 people and toppling dozens of buildings in the capital, Mexico City, officials say.The...

In a series of unresolved murders in Uganda, the 21st body of a woman has on Tuesday been found in Entebbe, near the capital,...

Kenya's Chief Justice David Maraga has said that he and other members of the legal body which selects judges are "prepared to pay the...

Li Wenxing was starting a new life. In May, the young university graduate left his home in rural China on the offer of work...

Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga has accused the ruling party of planning to remove presidential term limit as well as the security of tenure...

Twenty people have been arrested on Tanzania’s semi-autonomous archipelago of Zanzibar for alleged homosexuality, police say. The 12 women and eight men were picked up...

Uganda’s State Minister of Health for General Duties disguised herself as a patient and caught two medical workers demanding a bribe for free government...

Social media platform Snapchat has blocked access to Al Jazeera content in Saudi Arabia. Snapchat said it was asked by the Saudi authorities to remove...