Twelve people have died and thousands have fallen ill after a river in southern DR Congo was polluted by toxic waste from a diamond mine, the government said. Pollution of the Kasai River came to light...

There is presently no country on the planet that utilizes leaded petroleum, the UN Environment Program has declared. The profoundly harmful fuel has defiled air, soil and water for right around a century. It...

The United States on Monday completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan, ending America’s longest war. More than 123,000 people were evacuated from Kabul in a massive but chaotic airlift by the United...

Rocket fire apparently targeting Kabul’s international airport struck a nearby neighbourhood on Monday, the eve of the deadline for American troops to withdraw from the country’s longest war...

The death toll from two blasts at Kaul’s airport has risen to 72, two officials who worked in the ministry of health until the Taliban takeover told AFP on Friday. “There are many women and children...

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has confirmed speculations that he plans to run next year for the position of vice president. “I will run for vice president,” he said. “I’m worried about...

President Joe Biden affirmed on Tuesday that he would not immediately extend an Aug. 31 deadline to withdraw U.S. combat troops from Afghanistan. In making the decision, the president agreed with a Pentagon...

The U.S. gave full approval to Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine Monday, a milestone that may help lift public confidence in the shots as the nation battles the most contagious coronavirus mutant yet. The vaccine...

Ivory Coast has detected its first cases since 2015 of the H5N1 bird flu in poultry farms, the government said Thursday. “Since July 20, high death rates among poultry were spotted in traditional and...

Clashes between fishermen and herders in Cameroon’s Far North region over the past week have killed 32 people and forced thousands to flee to neighbouring Chad, the UN said Thursday. “A total of 19...

Burkina Faso’s president has declared three days of national mourning from Thursday after suspected jihadists killed 47 people, including 30 civilians, in an attack in the north of the country. The...

Opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema was on Monday declared winner of the hotly contested presidential election in debt-burdened Zambia. With 155 of 156 constituencies reporting, official results showed...

The Taliban has claimed victory in Afghanistan after taking over the capital Kabul, bringing to a swift end almost 20 years of a US-led coalition’s presence in the country. Fighters have seized...

A woman was killed and at least 17 other people injured in an explosion on a bus in western Russia, local authorities said early Friday. Several of the wounded were in serious condition. “So far...

A helicopter carrying 16 tourists and crew on a sightseeing trip in Russia’s far east crashed into a lake on Thursday, leaving eight people including a child feared dead and two others in serious condition. The...

China’s drug regulator has approved the country’s first mixed-vaccine trial, a company involved in the study said, as the rapid spread of the Delta variant raises concern about the efficacy of domestically...

US President Joe Biden has called on Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to resign Tuesday, following an official report that said Cuomo sexually harassed 11 women. “He should resign,” Biden...

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s name was allegedly used in a botched deal which resulted in a Harare man losing US$488, 000. According to a Zimbabwean news daily, a suspected fraudster,...

Tunisian President Kais Saied announced Sunday the suspension of the country’s parliament and the dismissal of Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi following a day of protests against the ruling party. Car...

The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee fired the director of the opening ceremony on Thursday because of a Holocaust joke he made during a comedy show in 1998. Organizing committee president Seiko Hashimoto...