Nikol Pashinyan, the acting prime minister of Armenia, has claimed victory in a snap parliamentary election he had called in an effort to defuse a political crisis following a disastrous war with Azerbaijan. With...

Brazil hit the tragic milestone of half a million COVID deaths on Saturday when it added 2,495 fatalities to its count. The country has the second highest pandemic death toll in the world, second only...

Sweden’s parliament has backed a no-confidence vote in the centre-left prime minister, Stefan Löfven, making him the first premier to be ousted by opposition MPs in the country’s history and giving...

A climate change revolt in Australia’s governing coalition on Monday brought in a new deputy prime minister likely to challenge the country’s already hesitant moves to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Barnaby...

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared 10 days of mourning to honour the late former Zambian President, Kenneth Kaunda. The founding father of Zambia succumbed to pneumonia while in...

The World Bank has announced that it has approved $3bn in funding to cover vaccination in 32 countries, 15 of which are in Africa. In a statement made at the G7 Leaders’ Summit in the United Kingdom,...

Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia’s founding president and liberation hero, has died aged 97, his son Kambarage said on Wednesday. Kaunda’s death comes days after reports that he was admitted at the Maina...

The United States will soon have a new federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery. The House voted 415-14 on Wednesday to make Juneteenth, or June 19th, the 12th federal holiday, and President...

A former presidential aide in DR Congo who had been sentenced to 20 years in a high-profile corruption case has had his term reduced by seven years on appeal, his lawyer said. Vital Kamerhe, 62, who was...

Israel carried out air strikes on the Gaza Strip early Wednesday after Palestinian groups sent incendiary balloons into the south of the country, in the first major conflict between the two sides since...

European Union member states have agreed to lift coronavirus travel restrictions on travellers from eight countries and territories including the United States, officials and diplomats said Wednesday. The...

Kenya will reopen its embassy in Somalia “as soon as possible”, Nairobi authorities announced on Monday, responding favorably to a proposal from their neighbour for the normalization of diplomatic...

Israel’s parliament approved a new coalition government on Sunday that sent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into the opposition after a record 12 years in office and a political crisis that sparked...

Firmin Ngrebada on Thursday resigned as prime minister of the Central African Republic along with his entire cabinet. The development on Thursday came during a turbulent week after France announced it...

Ghana is aiming to plant over 5 million trees on Friday in an effort to preserve and protect the country’s forest cover and the environment at large. President Nana Akufo was expected to lead the occasion...

As COVID-19 cases in Africa rise for the third week running and vaccines are increasingly scarce, 47 of Africa’s 54 countries—nearly 90%—are set to miss the September target of vaccinating 10% of...

A high-level UN-led committee that focuses on rapid responses to humanitarian crises estimated about 350,000 people in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region are facing famine conditions. The 350,000 figure...

President Joe Biden arrived in Europe Wednesday on his first overseas trip as the U.S. leader, set to hold high-level talks with other Western heads of state before meeting next week with Russian President...

Twelve people were killed when a Myanmar military plane carrying a senior monk and several donors to a religious event crashed in a central region of the country, a junta spokesman said Thursday. The...

El Salvador became the first country in the world to officially adopt Bitcoin as legal tender on Wednesday, according to a tweet from the president’s communication secretary. Congress passed the...