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Asked by reporters whether the prospect of impeachment worried him, President Donald Trump replied: "Not even a little bit."

The TMC and the opposition have traded threats since Sunday.

Lemurs in Madagascar's Vohibola forest are in danger of being wiped out by poaching and logging

Colombo Tourists are scrambling to flee Sri Lanka and cancelling holidays after a string of deadly suicide blasts that have sparked concerns the lucrative tourism industry could be sent into a tailspin. The attacks on hotels and churches came as Sri Lanka was emerging as a leading...

66-year-old retiree shares how a decision to look for a less crowded church saved his family.

DUBAI Reuters Saudi Arabia said on Monday it would coordinate with other oil producers to ensure an adequate crude supply and a balanced market after the United States said it would end waivers granted to buyers of Iranian oil. “Saudi Arabia is closely monitoring the...

Military leaders who eased out al Bashir on April 11 are yet to surrender full authority to a civilian-led government

US President Donald Trump has decided to end exemptions from sanctions for countries that buy oil from Iran. The White House said waivers granted to the five main buyers China, India, Japan, South Korea and Turkey would expire in early May. This decision is intended to bring Iran’s...

Police arrest 5 Algerian billionaires in ongoing anti-corruption and misuse of public money investigation, to be prosecuted in coming weeks.

Helen had been drinking with two friends in Shoreditch and missed her last train home.

COPENHAGEN Three of the four children of Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen were killed in the Easter day attacks in Sri Lanka, a spokesman for his clothing retail group Bestseller said on Monday. Danish media have reported that Holch Povlsen his wife Anne and their four children...

ALGIERS, Reuters Five Algerian billionaires, some of them close to former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika who quit over mass protests, have been arrested as part of an anti-graft investigation, state TV said on Monday. The five are Issad Rebrab, considered the richest businessman in the energy-rich north African nation...

Uganda Police arrest MP Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine, disperse his supporters ahead of a planned rally at One Love Beach in Busabala.

KHARTOUM, Reuters Sudan’s ruling Transitional Military Council (TMC) warned on Monday against protesters blocking roads and limiting the movement of citizens as protests continued after president Omar al-Bashir was forced from power. The TMC also said it was unacceptable that some young people were exercising...

Gorillas in the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo posed with a ranger

Sudan's military council warns against road blocks as protests continue

KAMPALA Ugandan police detained pop star-turned-MP Bobi Wine on Monday after shutting down one of his concerts and firing tear gas at his fans, the singer's wife and supporters said. "He has been arrested in Busabala, where he was to address the media on the cancellation of...

Colombo, Police on Monday said they had found 87 bomb detonators at a Colombo bus station, a day after a string of attacks on churches and hotels that killed nearly 300 people. A statement said police found the detonators at the Bastian Mawatha Private bus stand, 12...

Four of the bombs went off at roughly the same time, at 8.45 a.m., with two others coming within 20 minutes.

Protest leaders on Sunday said they suspended talks with Sudan's military council as they urged people to intensify their protest outside army headquarters in Khartoum and in other towns. "We will continue the sit-in and we are suspending our talks with the military council. "We are...

COLOMBO  As Shantha Prasad carried children wounded in Sri Lanka's deadly attacks into a Colombo hospital, memories of the country's deadly civil war flooded back. "I carried about eight wounded children yesterday," he said on Monday, a day after a string of blasts hit hotels and churches,...

27 arrested in Sri Lanka bomb attacks

Ukrainian comedian Volodymyr Zelensky has scored a landslide victory in the country’s presidential election. With nearly all ballots counted in the run-off vote, Mr Zelensky had taken more than 73% with incumbent Petro Poroshenko trailing far behind on 24%. “I will never let you down,” Mr Zelensky told...

Johannesburg, The election 25 years ago of South Africa's first black president, the late Nelson Mandela, who inspired the struggle against apartheid, was a time of soaring hope that the bruised country would reconcile after decades of discrimination and inequality. "You have mandated us to change...

The death toll in Sri Lanka has soared to 290 after a wave of blasts hit churches and luxury hotels across the country on Sunday. Police said that 24 people have been arrested, but it is not yet known who carried out the attacks. About...

The handgun was not loaded, and a search conducted by a bomb-sniffing dog found no explosives, police said

Republicans have stood by Trump and an impeachment effort was unlikely to succeed in the Republican-led Senate.

The unidentified armed assailants attacked the base in Guire district and took equipment

Colombo, At least 290 are now known to have died in a series of bomb blasts that tore through churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka, in the worst violence to hit the island since its devastating civil war ended a decade ago. Eight apparently co-ordinated explosions...

Khartoum Protest leaders in Sudan have said they have broken off contacts with the ruling military council that replaced ousted leader Omar al-Bashir. They accused it of being composed of "remnants" of Mr Bashir's regime. Thousands of protesters who gathered outside army HQ in Khartoum for...