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MIAMI A man has been arrested in Florida for castrating a companion who submitted to the procedure voluntarily after they met on an internet fetish site specialising in eunuchs. "This one is a little... let's just say sensitive. You could even say it's kinda nuts," the Highland...

Anab Mohamed Dahir came second with 14 votes.

Jubbaland President Ahmed Madobe has been sworn in for a second term of four years after garnering 56 votes out of 74 cast by the regional members of Parliament. Mr Madobe has ruled over the Somalia state since 2013. He defeated closest challenger, Anab Mohamed Dahir, by...

Named Fedor, short for Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research, the robot is the first ever sent up by Russia

Wildfires in the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil have ignited a firestorm on social media.

Fischer was the quintessential, laconic rural Australian, always wearing a rabbit-skin Akubra hat.

"This isn't my trade war. This is a trade war that should have taken place a long time ago by a lot of other presidents"

Interior Minister Matteo Salvini tried to force a snap election

African-Americans are flocking to Ghana as it marks the "Year of Return" and the 400th anniversary of the first slave ship landing in Virginia

US President Donald Trump has called the Danish leader "nasty" after she rebuffed his idea of buying Greenland. He lashed out hours after Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said she was "sorry" that Mr Trump had abruptly called off a state visit to Denmark. She has dismissed the...

Former British High Commissioner to Kenya Dr Christian Turner has been appointed the new British High Commissioner to Pakistan.

The presidents of Rwanda and Uganda on Wednesday signed an agreement in Angola to end months of tensions after the two leaders exchanged accusations of spying, political assassinations and meddling. Rwanda's President Paul Kagame and Uganda's Yoweri Museveni were once close allies but their relations have turned...

Shock in Denmark after Trump, spurned over Greenland, cancels visit

Some 27 federal MPs and several former and sitting state presidents throw their weight behind the electoral office. Kenya has criticised the United Nations for making “insensitive” demands on Somalia’s Jubbaland electoral agency which is due to preside over a presidential poll on Thursday. Foreign Affairs Cabinet...

TOKYO  A Japanese bullet train hurtling along at 280 kilometres per hour ran for nearly a minute with one of its doors completely open on Wednesday, its operator said. The accident, due to human error, was a rare mishap for the Japanese "Shinkansen" bullet train which has...

Mexican president says government not talking with criminal gangs

Last month, the presidents of Rwanda and Uganda pledged to resolve tensions.

The speaker of New Zealand's parliament has cradled a lawmaker's baby while he presided over a debate in the House of Representatives. Trevor Mallard tweeted a photo of himself feeding MP Tāmati Coffey's baby boy in the speaker's seat. Mr Coffey, Labour MP for Waiariki, announced the...

South African court rules display of apartheid flag constitutes hate speech

Sudan on Tuesday completed the formation of an 11-member sovereign council that will run the country for a three-year transitional period until polls.

Somalia’s state of Jubbaland on Tuesday evening shut down its main airport in Kismayu, ahead of the scheduled local presidential elections due Thursday. The decision means no aircraft will be allowed to land at the facility until after the vote. The authorities indicated the airport will reopen...

US military drone shot down over Yemen: officials

Khartoum, Sudan is taking further steps in its transition towards civilian rule Wednesday with the swearing in of a new sovereign council and the appointment of a prime minister. The body replaces the Transitional Military Council (TMC) that took charge after months of deadly street protests brought...

WINDHOEK, Photo caption – Namibia’s boxer Mikka Shonena (R) and China’s Dong Youli prepare to battle it out at the World Boxing Organization (WBO) fight, in Windhoek, capital of Namibia, Aug. 20, 2019. (Xinhua/Musa C Kaseke)    China’s 24-year-old Dong Youli, the current World Boxing Organization (WBO) Asia...

Johnson has said the UK will leave the EU with or without a deal on October 31

The African Union (AU) is on Wednesday expected to make a decisive vote on who between Kenya and Djibouti will take the sole United Nations Security Council non-permanent seat reserved for the continent in 2021. A committee of envoys representing member states at the AU headquarters in...

The economy is mired in its worst crisis in a decade

About half of a 500-inmate prison in Sorong city fled their cells when the prison was set ablaze by angry protesters Monday, according to authorities.

George Pell lost an appeal against his conviction for sexually abusing two 13-year-old choir boys.

If US President Donald Trump is going to get another four years in the White House, he'll probably need the economy to avoid recession