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Zimbabwe’s ousted president Robert Mugabe will get a residence, a car fleet and private air travel as part of a new government-funded retirement package for former leaders, state media reported Thursday. Also Mugabe will be entitled to at least 20 staffers...

Zimbabwe's former army chief, Constantino Chiwenga, has been appointed as one of the country's new vice-presidents. Mr Chiwenga spearheaded the military takeover in November that resulted in the overthrow of President Robert Mugabe. He recently retired...

Sixty-eight civilians were killed in two separate air raids by the Saudi-led coalition in one day of Yemen’s “absurd” war, the United Nations claimed. The first airstrike on Tuesday hit a crowded market in Taez province, killing 54 civilians, including...

Russia has lost contact with Angola’s first national telecoms satellite launched from the Baikonur space pad, its maker said Wednesday — a fresh embarrassment for Moscow’s once proud space industry. The incident involving the Russian-made Angosat-1 followed...

Former AC Milan, Manchester City and Chelsea striker George Weah has been elected president of Liberia. Weah - the first African to win the Ballon D'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year - won comprehensively, clinching 12 of the 15 counties in the West...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday filed documents with electoral officials to vie for re-election next year, a day after hundreds of politicians, celebrities and sports figures backed his bid. The 65-year-old strongman, who will face only...

Liberians are choosing a new president in a run-off vote between Vice-President Joseph Boakai and former international footballer George Weah. Mr Weah, 51, won the first round, but he did not secure the required 50% of the vote for an outright victory....

Norway is the undisputed world leader on electric cars, run almost exclusively off the nation’s copious hydropower resource. Nearly a third of all new cars sold in the country this year will be a plug-in model – either fully electric or a hybrid – and...

A residence of President Joseph Kabila was burned down early Monday in a suspected militia attack that killed a police officer in the Democratic Republic of Congo, witnesses said. So-called Mai-Mai armed groups were probably trying to steal goods from...

The Palestinian foreign minister through a Facebook post has condemned the Isrealis' settlement construction plans in the East Jerusalem. The settlement construction plan is said to consist 300,000 housing unit in the East Jerusalem. The Foreign who calls...

President Donald Trump has tongue-lashed countries with immigrants in the US, according to a New York Times report. In a meeting he reportedly attended in June at the Oval Office, Trump was quoted to have said Nigerians refuse to “return to their huts”...

A Palestinian teenager died on Sunday, nine days after being wounded by Israeli fire during a Gaza protest against US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the health ministry said. Mohammad Sami al-Dahduh, 19, from Gaza City was shot on December...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that his country will withdraw from the UN cultural agency UNESCO. Netanyahu had already announced in October that Israel would pull out of UNESCO following a decision by President Donald Trump...

The death toll from a tropical storm in the southern Philippines hit 182 early Sunday, with 153 people still missing, police said. Tropical Storm Tembin has lashed the country’s second largest island of Mindanao since Friday, triggering flash floods and...

The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, rejected the Trump administration's decision to recognize the disputed city of Jerusalem as Israel's new capital, by a 128-9 votes. Despite threats by US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley and Donald Trump,...

US Ambassador Nikki Haley warned Thursday of reprisals ahead of a UN vote expected to reject the US decision on Jerusalem, warning “the United States will remember this day.” “This vote will make a difference on how Americans look at the UN and on how...

The EU has commenced a process that could eventually see Poland ineligible or defunct of voting rights in Brussels in an unprecedented step designed to force the country’s rightwing government to drop reforms the bloc regards as a threat to the country’s...

The Catholic church’s top official in Jerusalem on Wednesday decried Donald Trump’s controversial recognition of the city as Israel’s capital, saying it damaged Christmas celebrations and led to hundreds cancelling trips. Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa,...

A bus conveying tourists from a US cruise ship to an archeological site in Mexico crashed Tuesday after running off the road, killing at least 11 people including several foreigners, the state government said. The crash, which left another 20 injured,...

Contrary to the advice of the commission, President Jacob Zuma on Saturday announced in a statement that the African National Congress-led government will introduce fully subsidised free higher education for poor undergraduate students from 2018. In a...

China on Tuesday lambasted US President Donald Trump’s first National Security Strategy, which described Beijing as a challenge to American power, as a “Cold War mentality” that will only harm Washington. “Any country, or any report, which distorts the...

The visa application of an Indian woman was rejected by authorities in the United Kingdom because her English-language proficiency is much higher than required by the immigration department. Alexandria Rintoul in a Facebook post claimed she passed an...

Israeli troops shot and wounded over 40 Palestinians in Gaza and West Bank on Friday, medical officials said, as protests over U.S. President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital entered a second week. Reuters photographers who...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has confirmed a total of 1,500 Gambians who landed in Germany without documentation will be deported, a joint news conference in Banjul stated on Friday. “There are over 35,000 Gambian migrants in Germany, out...

Theresa May lobbied for swift agreement on the terms of a post-Brexit transition period as she sought to reassure concerned leaders over dinner at an EU summit that she was still in control despite her Commons defeat. May was applauded at the dinner on...