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Christine Lagarde   Washington: Words must be put into action to save the planet, IMF chief Christine Lagarde warned, after envoys from 195 nations...

Gurdial Singh Nijar   Le Bourget: India, China and Saudi Arabia are all "happy" with a planned 195-nation agreement to slash greenhouse gas emissions,...

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal   Washington: Donald Trump hit back at a Saudi Arabian fellow billionaire after the prince branded him a disgrace and...

Jacob Zuma   By Tiisetso Motsoeneng JOHANNESBURG:  South African President  on Saturday denied rumours he had an affair with the chairwoman of state-owned airline...

Embassy of Switzerland in Nigeria Stockholm: A Swedish migration officer on assignment in West Africa was remanded in custody for serious bribery and...

The Hague: A brutally honest new graphic novel autobiography by a young Dutch artist is set to make waves as it tells of...

Brigi Rafini NIAMEY,: Niger will audit its electoral register ahead of a presidential election in February 2016 following demands from opposition parties, Prime...

  Geneva: Swiss authorities said Saturday that two people of Syrian origin had been arrested on suspicion of transporting "explosives and toxic gases" as...

Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh Banjul, Gambia: The president of the Gambia has declared his country is now "an Islamic state," his office said...

A search and rescue team works at the site of the landing of the Soyuz TMA-17M capsule that carried three flight engineers back...

Syrians gather at the scene of one of two car bomb attacks in Governm,ent controlled areas ofHoms, Syria, 12 December 2015.   Damascus: A...

  CAIRO: Two police officers were sentenced on Saturday to five years in jail by an Egyptian court for torturing a lawyer to death...

(LtoR) French President Francois Hollande, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and UN climate chief Christiana Figueres applaud...

Cassius Kollie (R), 24, one of four people discharged from an Ebola treatment unit, receives a certificate for being cured of the disease...

  The death toll from a devastating US air strike on an Afghan hospital in October has risen to 42, medical charity MSF said...

Addis Ababa: At least 17 people were injured when a grenade was thrown into the main mosque in the Ethiopia capital Addis Ababa...

Military personnel sits aboard a vehicle driving through the Musaga neighbourhood of the city of Bujumbura on December 11, 2015.   Nairobi: At least...

Participants hold a long red sheet in a demonstration within the COP21 to ask leaders to fightclimate change, during the COP21 World Climate...