A judicial panel probing runaway graft on Monday asked South Africa’s top court to jail ex-president Jacob Zuma for two years for defying a court order compelling him to testify. The 78-year-old had...

Israel closed all its Mediterranean beaches until further notice Sunday, days after an offshore oil spill deposited tons of tar across more than 160 kilometers (100 miles) of coastline in what officials...

Libya’s interior minister survived unscathed Sunday an attack by gunmen on his motorcade, according to sources from his office. Fathi Bashagha had finished a meeting on Sunday with the chairman of the...

Myanmar began a nationwide general strike on Monday despite a curfew, road blockades and more overnight arrests. Myanmar state TV has warned that “action” will be taken against any protesters...

A young woman has become the first protester to die in the anti-coup demonstrations in Myanmar after she was shot in the head. Mya Thwe Thwe Khaing, 20, was injured earlier last week when police tried...

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Thursday announced the dissolution of the lower house of parliament and called early legislative elections as the North African nation struggles with health,...

Facebook has blocked Australian users from sharing or viewing news content on the platform, causing much alarm over public access to key information. It comes in response to a proposed law which would...

Texas remained in the frigid grip of winter storms on Wednesday as a fresh arctic blast deepened an electricity supply crisis that has forced millions to endure days without power and heat. More than 100...

Life expectancy in the US fell by a full year in the first half of 2020, a change experts say was fuelled by the growing coronavirus pandemic. The life expectancy for the entire population dropped...

The United Nations has allocated $15 million (N5.8 billion) to fight the fresh Ebola outbreaks in Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Mark Lowcock...

Police in Myanmar filed a new charge against ousted leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, her lawyer said Tuesday. The new charge has come in the face of increased nationwide protests by pro-democracy groups who want...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the United States of supporting Kurdish armed groups that Ankara says executed 13 kidnapped Turks in northern Iraq, adding a US statement of condemnation...

China last year overtook the United States as the EU’s biggest trading partner, the EU statistics agency Eurostat said on Monday. The EU’s trade with the United States dropped significantly...

South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma did not show up on Monday at an inquiry into alleged corruption during his time in office. The country’s top court had earlier ordered Zuma to appear...

Syria’s army said on Monday the country’s air defences intercepted “Israeli aggression” over the capital, Damascus, in the latest stepped-up bombing of alleged Iranian targets inside the country...

Guinea has declared an Ebola epidemic after three people died and four others became ill in the country’s southeast. The seven people fell ill with diarrhoea, vomiting and bleeding after attending a...

Security forces in Myanmar opened fire on protesters Sunday, as demonstrations against military rule in the country enter their second week. There was no immediate confirmation of a death toll and no comment...

Former US President Donald Trump was acquitted by the country’s Senate on Saturday in an impeachment trial for his role in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. Trump was the first US president...

Ukraine’s parliament on Friday approved a bill intended to speed up the approval of COVID-19 vaccines, which also bans the approval of vaccines made in Russia. The government has said it expects...

AstraZeneca, the British maker of a Covid vaccine with Oxford University, said Thursday its 2020 net profit more than doubled to $3.2 billion thanks to strong sales growth of cancer drugs. Profit after...