The Islamic State (IS) group is unleashing more terror on Libya following a truck bomb attack on a police training centre in the western Libyan city...
After rising from an emergency meeting on Wednesday, the UN Security Council has vowed to start work on new sanctions against Pyongyang after its hydrogen bomb...
The regions of Sidra and Ras Lanouf in Libya, which are on the coast between Sirte and Benghazi, have been caught in wild fires after shelling...
Hours after a 5.1 magnitude earthquake was detected near a known test site in the country, North Korea said on Wednesday that it had conducted a...
The row over racist comments posted by Ms. Penny Sparrow, an opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) member, on Facebook when she called black people “monkeys”, has led...
The latest episode of the mideast diplomatic crisis which has boiled over has seen Kuwait recall its ambassador from Tehran, the Iranian capital. The move by...
A few years after her first marriage to Joseph Burns, with whom she had two children crashed, defiant daughter of the first Archbishop of Cape Town...
In a bid to stem the growing trend of serial shootings in America, the White House has gone tough on gun laws. According to new executive...
Saudi Arabia has gotten support from its allies over its row with Iran after diplomatic relations broke down when Iranians attacked Saudi embassy in Tehran after...
The Mideast crisis seems to be boiling over after Bahrain joined Saudi Arabia in severing diplomatic ties with Iran. Authorities in Bahrain have asked Iranian diplomats...
Northeastern India, 29 kilometers (18 miles) west of the city of Imphal, the capital of Manipur state, on Monday morning was shaken by a 6.7 magnitude...
The police in Mexico are possibly close to identifying the culprits behind the killing of the newly inaugurated mayor just hours later with three suspects, including...
Saudi Arabia has given Iranian diplomats 48 hours to leave the country, amid a row over the Saudi execution of a top Shia Muslim cleric. Saudi...
More than a day and a half after the Pathankot air base compound near the border of Pakistan came under attack, Indian troops are still fighting...
Tragedy struck at a Mexican municipality when armed men killed a mayor inside her home on Saturday after she took office a day before. The victim,...
The death toll following an attack on an Indian air force base has risen to six after four soldiers who sustained gun wounds succumbed to the...
Fiery businessman turned politician Donald Trump is at it again. This time, the mouthy politician is accusing Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton (former Secretary of State)...
Protests have broken out after Saudi Arabia announced the execution of Shia religious leader Nimr al-Nimr and 46 others on terrorism charges. Reports say Iranian protesters...
Authorities in Nigeria say more than 750 people from eight West African countries, who were stranded at Calabar port when their ship made an emergency berthing...
A dissident Shiite cleric, Nimr al-Nimr, who had repeatedly spoken out against the government and the Saudi royal family was among 47 people executed on Saturday....
According to reports, at least two people were feared dead and seven others injured following a deadly shooting incident at a bar in the Israeli capital...
A new security strategy, which points to NATO expansion as a threat to Russia has been endorsed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin signed the executive...
The New Year was ushered in amid high security alert as millions welcomed the year 2016 albeit cautiously. German police shut down two main train stations...
The sit-tight posture of African leaders is playing out again after President Paul Kegame declared his intention to run for a third term in office, one...
Vocal businessman tuned politician Donald Trump appeared on Fox News as he staged a party in Florida alongside his wife Melania and much of his family...
64-year-old Hutu pastor, Jean Uwinkindi, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by Rwanda’s High Court for his role in the 1994 genocide. The court ruled that...
King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo of South Africa has begun his 12-year prison term for arson, assault and kidnapping. The convicted monarch- a nephew of the late Nelson...
Following the violence that erupted in Burundi after President Pierre Nkurunziza announced he would seek a third term in office which was followed by a coup...
Residents and opposition fighters say Syrian army backed by Russian warplanes engaged in fierce fighting with rebels close to the border with Jordan. You may also...
Businessman turned politician, Donald Trump is at it again. This time, the vocal Republican frontrunner has chosen to verbally attack two of his close rivals in...
The fear of terrorism and possible attacks has seen security being stepped-up around the world especially with planned New Year’s Eve celebrations. In the last one...
According Colonel Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesperson based in Baghdad, two suspects in the deadly Paris attacks claimed by ISIL were killed this month by coalition...
Former United States Secretary of State and one of the frontrunners for the forthcoming American elections, Hillary Clinton has called the killing of Christians and other...
Evacuations are ongoing of businesses and homes inundated in rare winter flooding from the Mississippi River which continues to rock the state of Missouri. Reports say...
After recording more than 2,500 deaths in the world’s worst Ebola Virus Disease outbreak, Guinea was Tuesday declared free from the disease by the World Health...
Belgian police have arrested two people suspected of planning attacks in Brussels to be carried out on New Year’s eve, prosecutors say. Raids took place on...
The Iraqi army has declared that the city of Ramadi has been freed from the stronghold of the Islamic State, though there are still pockets of...
The reluctance of Brazil to accept an Israeli ambassador who is a West Bank settler has led to a standoff with Israel now warning it could...
Reclusive ISIS leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has waved aside Western coalition against the Islamic State group in a 24-minute audio saying airstrikes by the international coalition...
In a bid to cope with an ageing population and a shrinking workforce, China has decided to relax it’s birth laws by officially ending its one-child...
A statement released on Saturday by police in Vienna, Austria reveals that an unnamed “friendly” intelligence service has warned several European cities of possible terror attacks....
According to a police report, at least eight people have been confirmed dead in the Dallas area after raging tornadoes and severe storms tore through the...
Lionel Zinsou, the Prime Minister of Benin Republic is thanking his stars at the moment after he emerged unhurt when the helicopter in which he was...
Palpable fear is in the air following the death of Zahran Alloush, the leader of the Jaysh al-Islam group, who was killed on Friday in an...
At least two people drowned and 12 others were injured while trying to get to a small patch of Spanish territory in North Africa by swimming...
U.S Geological Survey (USGS) reports that a 6.2-magnitude earthquake has struck northeast Afghanistan near the country’s borders with Pakistan and Tajikistan with tremors being felt as...
In what is described as the worst flooding in years, more than 150,000 people in Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil have been driven from their homes...
A monitoring group and Syrian state media both report that the commander of one of the most effective rebel forces battling Syria’s government has been killed...
A man who had contemplated taking his own life by jumping off a bridge in Istanbul was persuaded to give up the act by the Turkish...
Narenda Mordi made a suprise stop-over in Pakistan to meet his counterpart, Nawaz Sharif. It is the first time an Indian prime minister visited the rival...