Accra---More than 150 people have died in a devastating petrol station blast during heavy flooding in Ghana's capital, prompting the nation's leader to...
Accra---More than 150 people have died in a devastating petrol station blast during heavy flooding in Ghana's capital, prompting the nation's leader to...
Paris---France sought Friday to calm a furious row with Israel over French telecom group Orange's decision to withdraw from the Jewish state, insisting...
Kathmandu---Nepal Friday announced the departure of all foreign military personnel involved in relief efforts in the Himalayan nation, six weeks after the first...
United Nations, United States---The United Nations called Friday on all sides in Ukraine to fully uphold a European-brokered ceasefire after an upsurge of...
Istanbul---A Turkish daily on Friday published images it said showed the Turkish spy agency helping to smuggle jihadists into Syria, the latest allegations...
Taipei---Taiwan executed six death-row inmates on Friday after calls for heavier punishments for serious crime were prompted by the death of a girl...
Strasbourg, France---Europe's rights court on Friday backed the decision of a French court to allow a man in a vegetative state be taken...
Rome---The UN's refugee agency on Friday slammed as "despicable" and "extremely worrying" the infiltration of a criminal network in Italy's system for housing...
Kano, Nigeria---Two suicide bombers attacked a northeast Nigerian market hours after a blast outside a military barracks, as the death toll from suspected...
Tareq Aziz Nasiriyah, Iraq---Iraq's jailed former foreign minister Tareq Aziz, who used his mastery of English to put a gloss on Saddam Hussein's...
Brussels---EU leaders meeting in Brussels this month are set to extend sanctions on Russia over its involvement in the fighting in Ukraine until...
Norbert Zongo Arusha, Tanzania---An African human rights court ordered Burkina Faso on Friday to reopen a probe into the 1998 murder of journalist...
Chicago---A Texas man who admitted to trying to join the Islamic State group to fight in Syria was sentenced to nearly seven years...
Berlin---The remains of some of those killed when a Germanwings flight was deliberately crashed into the French Alps will be returned next week...
Beirut---The head of Lebanon's powerful Shia movement Hezbollah threatened on Friday that his group would displace "millions" in Israel if the Jewish state...
Panama City---A former Panamanian government official was arrested Thursday night over suspected corruption, the latest ex-minister to be nabbed in a widening graft...
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame Washington---The United States would oppose any moves to allow Rwanda's President Paul Kagame to stand for a third term...
Diyarbakir, Turkey---Two explosions went off Friday at rally by the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) in southeast Turkey, wounding dozens and adding to...
