South Africa’s newly-elected parliament meets Friday and is expected to re-elect President Cyril Ramaphosa to form an unprecedented coalition government after his ruling ANC cobbled together a coalition deal. The…

R.E.M. performed onstage together for the first time in well over a decade Thursday, reuniting to play their classic “Losing My Religion” as they were inducted into the Songwriters Hall…

Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group said it had fired waves of rockets and drones at the Israeli army on Thursday after an Israeli strike killed one of its senior commanders….

Palestinian officials said Israeli troops killed three Palestinians in a raid in a town in the occupied West Bank Thursday, as Israel’s military reported it had “eliminated two wanted suspects”….

By AFP 13 June 2024   |   6:35 pm A French court on Thursday confirmed the prison sentences of two men who were sentenced to 18 years in jail…

A massive fire at an oil refinery in Iraqi Kurdistan raged for about 20 hours and injured at least 14 firefighters who on Thursday finally brought the blaze under control….

Israel has dismissed as biased a UN inquiry that found it committed crimes against humanity, including that of “extermination,” in its war against Hamas in Gaza. The report, the first…

By Jimisayo Opanuga 12 June 2024   |   7:38 pm The Russian Embassy in Nigeria has denied allegations that Russia is forcing African students, particularly Nigerians, to participate in…

Dozens of demonstrators were injured in the Armenian capital Yerevan on Wednesday, after police fired stun grenades at an anti-government rally outside parliament, an AFP photographer witnessed. Several thousand people…

Pope Francis on Wednesday called on Catholic priests to keep their homilies short — “no longer than eight minutes” — so that their audiences would not “fall asleep”. The homily…