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Sudan may return to war if US keeps sanctions: minister.   Sudan could fall back into war if Washington fails to lift decades-old sanctio...

Bloodthirsty Nigeria 'cult' killings spark fear.   People cover their noses at the stench of death in the Crystal Church of God i...

​​ Djibouti: Chinese troops depart for first overseas military base.  Ships carrying Chinese troops are heading to Djibouti to set up Bei...

An   active duty U.S. soldier was arrested on terrorism charges after authorities say he pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group an...

Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorist group is constructing at least two underground facilities in Lebanon for manufacturing missiles and other...

Portugal charges 18 policemen over alleged racist conduct.    Authorities in Portugal are ringing charges of torture, assault, providing ...

Turkey orders 72 university staff detained in coup-related probe.   Turkey issued arrest warrants for 72 university staff, state media s...

Afghan students denied US visa to attend robot competition.   Six female students from war-torn Afghanistan who had hoped to participate ...

Somalia's government says an ongoing internet outage is costing the country $10m (£7.7m) each day.   The outage affects southern Soma...

Congo election head says presidential vote unlikely this year.   The president of Democratic Republic of Congo's electoral commission...

Kenya's president warns judiciary not to help opposition.  Kenya's president has warned the country's judiciary not to help t...

​​El Salvador teen rape victim sentenced to 30 years in prison after stillbirth.   A high school student was convicted on the grounds that...

Days after weapons and explosives were taken from a military warehouse in Portugal, the scale of the theft is becoming clear.  A Spanish ...

A haul of firearms has been seized in France from a car heading to the UK.  Seventy-nine "viable" weapons were recovered from t...

Faced with a series of terror attacks, Pakistan is fighting back against Islamic State-affiliated militants after repeatedly claiming tha...

A car has rammed the gate of the Brazilian president's palace as calls grow on Michel Temer to resign amid a corruption scandal and s...

Moscow is preparing measures to retaliate against Washington's decision to seize two Russian diplomatic compounds in the United States l...

The United States plans to sell four Black Hawk helicopters to Thailand after initially suspending their sale following a 2014 military coup...

Thousands of people have turned out in protests across India against a wave of attacks on Muslims by mobs that accuse them of killing cows o...

A year ago it was Greece and Turkey that bore the brunt of the world's worst refugee crisis. Newspapers and television bulletins were...

South Sudan is recalling its top diplomats from seven countries, but says the recalls have nothing to do with the country's economic ...

A Gabonese opposition figure who earlier this month threatened violence if President Ali Bongo failed to resign has been placed in preven...

China National Petroleum Corp has suspended sales of fuel to North Korea over concerns the state-owned oil company won't get paid, a...

Zimbabwe’s auditor general has revealed shocking details of the abuse of public funds at state-owned institutions and government ministri...

Hundreds of fighters from Chad and Sudan's Darfur region are feeding off instability in Libya, battling for rival factions, seeking to b...

Two interesting, unsettling pieces from the Washington Post and the Atlantic about what happens to unaccompanied minors after they get to...

The country itself is young, having split from Sudan only in 2011 . But years of conflict in Sudan, and a four-year civil war within the bra...

Authorities in north-eastern Nigeria have begun digging a 27km (17 mile) trench around the University of Maiduguri to prevent attacks by ...

A security researcher developed a script to bombard IRS scammers with phone calls 28 times per second, preventing their phone lines from ...

U.S. will take weapons from Kurds after Islamic State defeat.  The United States has told Turkey it will take back weapons supplied to th...

Teachers are being trained to carry guns in classrooms in Colorado in order to protect children as part of a scheme motivated by a school...

Several prominent journalists and activists in Mexico have filed a complaint accusing the government of spying on them by hacking their ...

Pakistan says it will soon begin building a fence along its volatile border with Afghanistan to improve security, a move that has sparked...

What was once Bentiu, the gateway to South Sudan's oil fields, is now a cluster of bullet-riddled buildings and piles of scrap metal,...

Intense fighting in the Central African Republic killed at least 40 people and injured dozens more, dashing hopes for stability in the st...

Amnesty International says rich countries have failed in their obligation to help Uganda support thousands of refugees fleeing violence ...

If they don't respect rights in the countries from which these soldiers come, why do we think they will behave any differently in sit...

Texas Just Banned Child Marriage.   Texas passed a law to make marriage under age 18 illegal.   On Thursday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sig...

North Korea has accused the US authorities of "literally mugging" its diplomats at a New York airport.   A spokesman for the se...

Up to half the food aid meant for people who have fled Nigeria's Islamist insurgency has reportedly not been delivered, the governmen...

El Salvador Loses $4B Annually because of Gang Micro-Extortions .  Although anywhere between US$5 and US$20 is taken in each shakedown, t...

War in El Salvador strikes Apalachicola   THE ISSUE: An El Salvadorian man who lived as a legal resident of Apalachicola for more than 20 ...

The gunman who wounded a top Republican congressman and several others during an early morning baseball practice had apparently been livi...

Two men have been arrested in connection to a brawl between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's security guards and protesters i...

A $12 billion deal to buy Boeing F-15 U.S. fighter jets shows Qatar has deep-rooted support from Washington, a Qatari official said on Th...

Kazakhstan has introduced a theologians' service in penitentiaries to prevent inmates' from being radicalized.   The Central Asia...

The estranged wife of Lesotho's incoming prime minister was gunned down just two days before his inauguration, his party and police s...

The United Nations has documented dozens of cases of serious child abuse including rape and kidnap in five days of violence by Congolese ...

Pakistan's military chief is sharply criticizing a suspected U.S. drone strike that killed two key Haqqani network commanders in nor...

Salvadoran ‘Coyote’: Smuggling of migrants is “social work”   A Coyote does an “honest job similar to an NGO, but charging a fee because...

Bahrain lawyer arrested for suing over Qatar blockade.   A prominent human rights lawyer in Bahrain has been arrested after launching a l...

A deadly night-time fire raced through a 24-story apartment tower in London early Wednesday, killing at least six people and injuring dozens...

Ramadan: Protests after Tunisia jails five men for 'indecency' after they ate during day.   Dozens of people have gathered in th...

Me Nam, or Mother Mushroom, the Vietnamese blogger who received the International Women of Courage Award from first lady Melania Trump in...

U.S. troops are on the ground near Marawi City in the southern Philippines, but are not involved in fighting Islamist militants who have hel...

Bangladesh said on Wednesday the arrest of one of its diplomats in New York on charges of labor trafficking and assault appeared to be a ...

I went on a wonderful vacation to Europe and obviously took a break fro m the blog.   many of these news stories will be a bit dated by now,...

University of Virginia student Otto Warmbier, said to be in a coma, released from North Korea.   A plane carrying University of Virginia...

A mass food poisoning at a camp for the displaced near the northern city of Mosul killed at least two people and sickened over 700, Iraq...

Vladimir Putin's most vocal critic, opposition leader Alexei Navalny, has been arrested after he urged his supporters to join him at...

A suspected North Korean drone photographed a U.S. missile defense system in South Korea before it crashed near the border where it was f...

An eight-story building has collapsed in a low-income area of Nairobi and 10 people are missing, witnesses and officials in Kenya said Tu...

A top Boko Haram commander was among many insurgents killed on Sunday as soldiers fought to rescue nine children being trained at a secre...

The UN envoy for Central African Republic says the country is "on a path to incremental peace" that will be achieved if United ...

Israeli government spies hacked into the operations of Islamic State bomb makers to discover they were developing a laptop computer bomb ...

S. Korea fires shots at N. Korea after object crosses border.   South Korea fired warning shots Tuesday after an unidentified object flew so...

UN Security Council Scrambles to Address Latest N. Korean Missile Launch. The United Nations Security Council has called another emergency s...

FBI investigating U. Md. Fatal stabbing as possible hate crime.   Investigators believe race could be the key motivator in the death of 2...

Mexican mob attacks Russian over insults in Cancun.   A Russian man has been put into protective custody in hospital after he was attacke...

Trial opens in Turkey against 221 suspected coup instigators.   The trial has opened in Turkey’s capital against the alleged instigators ...

Police say bomb at Thai hospital wounds more than 20 people.   A bomb exploded at an army-run hospital in Bangkok  on Monday, the third  ...