The Brazilian government says 27 migrants from West Africa have been rescued off the coast of Maranhao in the northern region of the country. Officials from Maranhao said a fishing boat intercepted the...

Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, a former president of Comoros and a critic of President Azali Assoumani has been placed under house arrest in order to preserve public order and peace. A Monday statement from the...

In the latest shooting to rock the United States of America still shaken by the massacre at a Florida high school in February, a gun-wielding assailant on Friday afternoon left behind multiple casualties...

  Sergei Skripal, the Russian ex-spy who was left in a critical condition by a nerve agent attack in Salisbury, UK for more than two months has been discharged from the Salisbury District Hospital...

A court in Zambia on Thursday sentenced the son of former President Frederick Chiluba to eight months imprisonment with hard labour for stealing a mobile phone. Frederick Chiluba Jr. was found guilty...

North Korea has threatened to cancel the much anticipated summit between its leader, Kim Jong-Un and President Donald Trump of the United States over Washington’s insistence that Pyongyang unilaterally...

United States First Lady, Melania Trump on Monday underwent kidney surgery at Walter Reed National Military Centre near Washington DC. According to a statement released by her office and signed by Stephanie...

Israel prepared a series of festivities to celebrate the opening of the new United States Embassy in Jerusalem despite Palestinian protests, raising fears of a further outbreak of violence. After marking...

An Indonesian family of five on Monday detonated explosives outside the police headquarters in Surabaya, a day after members of another family carried out coordinated suicide bombings on three churches...

Malaysians on Thursday elected 92-year-old opposition politician, Mahathir Mohammad to lead them. Mohammad defeated his one-time protégé and incumbent Prime Minister, Najib Razak. Razak’s defeat was...

The United States President, Donald Trump on Thursday revealed that five most wanted leaders of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS) have been captured in Iraq. In a tweet released on Thursday,...

The Gambia is selling several airplanes and a fleet of luxury cars belonging to former President Yahya Jammeh as it seeks to reduce crippling debts incurred during his decades-long authoritarian rule. Jammeh,...

United States President, Donald Trump on Tuesday said he will withdraw the US from an Obama-era nuclear agreement with Iran which he described as “decaying and rotten” and an embarrassment to him as...

Russian President, Vladmir Putin has been sworn in for another six years, two months after more than 70 percent of voters backed him in a presidential election in which he had no serious challenger. Standing...

A weather reconnaissance airplane used by the United States military has crashed on a highway in Georgia, killing five persons, with another four still unaccounted for. US officials say the crash of the...

The United States President, Donald Trump has that his administration will not tolerate the incessant killing and attacks on Christian communities in Nigeria by suspected herdsmen and armed bandits. ...

North Korean Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-Un has pledged a new era in relations with his South Korean neighbours as he, this Friday, became the first North Korean leader to set foot on South Korean soil since...

The United States Ambassador to Nigeria, John Bray says the African continent would never experience stability and prosperity if Nigeria fails. Speaking at the official launch of “Know Your Rights Nigeria”...

Egypt’s military court on Tuesday convicted former Chief of the nation’s anti-graft agency, Hesham Genena for insulting the Armed Forces and sentenced him to five years in prison. Genena was arrested...

Former United States President, George Herbert Walker Bush has been hospitalized in Houston for a blood infection, two days after attending the funeral of his wife, Barbara. According to Jim McGrath,...