Haiti is waiting desperately for the first members of a Kenyan-led multinational force tasked with ending the stranglehold of powerful and ultra-violent gangs, but their hoped-for arrival this week was…

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress staged its last major stadium rally Saturday ahead of next week’s election, fighting to restore its glory and protect its unbeaten streak of post-apartheid…

G7 finance ministers were set to urge Israel Saturday not to disrupt “vital financial transactions” in the occupied Palestinian territories, following indications it could cut off Palestinian banks. “We call…

By AFP 25 May 2024   |   12:00 pm Russia said Saturday its army had captured another village in eastern Ukraine in the latest of a series of small…

Israel bombed the Gaza Strip, including Rafah, on Saturday, despite an order from the UN’s top court for it to “immediately halt” its military offensive in the southern city. At…

A Nigerian man’s wedding to his fiancée, set for May 25 in Houston, United States, has been called off after their arrest on charges of defrauding at least 13 elderly…

By AFP 25 May 2024   |   8:36 am A car explosion killed one person in Damascus on Saturday, the official Syrian news agency SANA reported, without identifying the…

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani on Saturday announced Rome would restore funding for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees as he met with Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Mustafa. “Italy has…

Two top rivals of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi who accuse his government of targeting them in unjustified criminal probes cast their votes in New Delhi on Saturday as the…

By AFP 24 May 2024   |   9:08 pm Several hundred Tunisians marched through the capital chanting “down with the dictatorship” Friday as they protested a spate of arrests…