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The mum, who has not been named, is also in good health after the rare birth in the Diyali Province of eastern Iraq

KINSHASA DR Congo's new President Felix Tshisekedi called Friday for a "better armed" UN peacekeeping force in the troubled country, in his first formal meeting with foreign diplomats after...

Women were attacked, threatened with violence and forced to give up their places to men during the party primaries last year

MOSCOW, Russia has detained the US head of a major investment firm on suspicion of fraud and he will appear in a Moscow court on Friday, the court said. Michael Calvey, the founder of...

ADDIS ABABA Ethiopia is assisting 541 nationals stranded in Tanzania to obtain travel documents and return home, the foreign ministry said Friday. Every year hundreds of Ethiopian migrants are...

PARIS, The Vatican's envoy to France is under investigation for sexual assault after being accused of molesting an official at the Paris mayor's office, a judicial source told AFP. The envoy,...

President Donald Trump was poised on Friday to declare a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border

Two people were sentenced to death by a Myanmar court Friday for the murder of a Muslim lawyer and Aung San Suu Kyi advisor

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia has said some 1,000 fighters with the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) rebel group have given up arms and entered rehabilitation camps, according to state media. Popular among...

At least 41 paramilitary troops were killed on Thursday as explosives packed in a van ripped through a convoy

LAGOS In Nigeria, it is often said that no figure is verifiable unless it is the price of a barrel of crude oil. AFP has put together some key numbers ahead of Saturday's election, in which...

The Taliban's official spokesman now tweets real-time updates about battlefield operations and its media arm stays in direct contact with journalists

DUBAI, Suspected drone activity briefly disrupted flight departures Friday from Dubai International Airport, the world's busiest for international traffic, the airport said. It said in a...

Japan's government introduced a bill Friday to recognise the country's ethnic Ainu minority as an "indigenous" people

Slovenia MP resigns for stealing sandwich

Police would not confirm the incident, saying they were yet to receive a full report.

MTN Uganda’s Chief Technology Officer, Mr Gordian Kyomukama, has been appointed as the acting chief executive following the deportation of Mr Wim Vanhelleputte. Mr Vanhelleputte, a Belgian...

US President Donald Trump is to invoke rare national emergency powers to secure funding for his planned border wall with Mexico, the White House said. The controversial move would enable Mr Trump...

The tape, which is nearly 45 minutes long, is not the same video that saw Kelly face 21 counts of child pornography charges in 2002

WASHINGTON, President Donald Trump plans to declare a national emergency to fund his controversial border wall, the White House said Thursday, a move that alarmed US lawmakers shortly before...

Trump who is a known lover of junk food, weighs 243 pounds (110 kg)

Uganda has kicked out MTN Chief Executive Officer Wim Vanhelleputte. In a letter signed by Internal Affairs Minister Jeje Odongo on Thursday, the MTN Uganda boss is to stay outside Uganda...

WASHINGTON, The US Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a compromise package that funds federal operations and prevents a looming government shutdown, without providing money for President...

Warsaw, Thursday United States Vice President Mike Pence accused Washington’s European allies on Thursday of trying to break US sanctions against Tehran and called on them to withdraw from the...

N'DJAMENA  Four children and their teacher were injured when a leopard roamed into their primary school in a rare attack in Chad on Thursday, witnesses said. Five people were hurt when the big...

ZAGREB  Forget romantic dinners and roses, the place to be on Valentine's Day is Zagreb's Museum of Broken Relationships, a paean to personal objects and stories of heartbreak. From a toaster...

Most of babies born with spina bifida condition are aborted before they get a chance at life outside the womb.

British Prime Minister Theresa May could face a defeat in parliament on Thursday over her plan to renegotiate the Brexit deal

"The main root of terrorism in region is America and Zionists, and some oil-producing countries in the region also financially support the terrorism.

SURABAYA Valentine's Day wasn't getting much love in the world's biggest Muslim majority nation Thursday as Indonesian authorities urged amorous couples to call it quits and carried out raids to...