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Grace Mugabe, the wife of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, is stealthily reported to have fled the country for neighbouring Namibia. Her husband is thought to be under house arrest in the southern African country's capital, Harare, after the Zimbabwean...

At the moment, Zimbabwe is in turmoil. The whereabout of its 93-year old president, Robert Mugabe is unknown but the military assures that he's in safe hands with his family.There's unusual military movement in the capital and many punidts suspect it...

The move comes after the Zimbabwe army seized power overnight with gunshots and explosions heard in the capital. The 93-year-old dictator was arrested along with his wife by the army in the capital Harare. A leading South African news website has reported...

Early this morning, heavy gunfire and explosions were heard in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, after which the military took control of the country's airwaves, but they insist it is not a coup and the President is "safe" with his family.Hours after taking...

Parliament is to be given a take-it-or leave-it vote on the final Brexit deal before the UK leaves the EU. Brexit Secretary David Davis said the terms of the UK's exit, such as money, citizen rights and any transition must become law via a new Act of...

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has said regional elections next month in Catalonia will help end "separatist havoc" in the north-eastern region. Justifying his decision in Barcelona, he said he had "exhausted all roads" after the Catalan government's...

Slovenia’s internet-savvy President Borut Pahor on Sunday won a second term in a runoff vote that was marred by an abysmally low turnout. Centre-left ex-premier Pahor, 54, had been touted to win in October, but a record low 44-percent turnout triggered...

Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri reveals that he resigned to protect himself and will return home "in days". Mr Hariri told Future TV from Riyadh that he was free and would "return to Lebanon very soon".Lebanon's president and others have said he...

The resignation of prime minister Saad Hariri is the latest shot in a regional crisis that has been building for years. The trepidation extends beyond the city’s predominantly Shia suburbs and south Lebanon, which bore the brunt of the 2006 war with Israel,...

US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping have set out obviously different visions for the future of global trade in speeches at a summit in Vietnam. In a defiant address, Mr Trump told the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (Apec)...

The sacked speaker of Catalonia’s parliament had left a prison near Madrid on Friday hours after supporters posted her bail of 150 000 euros ($175,000), ending her brief detention over the region’s controversial independence drive. A judge at the Supreme...

French President Emmanuel Macron made a surprise visit on Thursday night to Saudi Arabia, saying he wanted to speak to the kingdom's young, assertive crown prince about Iran and the war in Yemen. It suggests that France believes the king's 32-year-old...

Saudi Arabia's attorney general says at least $100bn (£76bn) has been misused through systemic corruption and embezzlement in recent decades. Sheikh Saud al-Mojeb said 201 people were being held for questioning as part of a sweeping anti-corruption drive...

The DRC's main opposition parties have refuted a new date for elections announced at the weekend to replace President Joseph Kabila, saying it violates the law and a political deal agreed with the government. Originally scheduled for late 2016, the polls...

The topsy-turvy of Theresa May government in the United Kingdom heightened on Thursday as UK international development secretary Priti Patel resigned over unauthorised meetings with Israeli politicians, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Patel...

The Colombian government disclosed it has located 12 tons of cocaine in the largest drug seizure in the country's history. The drugs were found buried in four banana plantations in the north of the country, close to the routes used to smuggle cocaine...

George Papadopoulos, Trump campaign foreign policy aide's contacts with Russians have already got him in trouble. He has admitted lying to the FBI about them. But it is now revealed he also met a British Foreign Office official, two months before the...

What a difference a year makes. Last November, Democrats were in despair - losing a presidential race, cementing their minority status in the US Congress and facing historic deficits in state legislatures and governor's mansions across the US. In off-year...

The European Union, EU, said it has less than a month to make a concession on the Brexitbill in order to guarantee launching trade talks in December, the Guardian understands. Senior officials in Brussels say talks have stalled since Theresa May’s Florence...

A Danish man whose freezer was full of women's genitals has been found guilty of various crimes by a South African court - but not female genital mutilation. Peter Frederiksen was found guilty of rape, production and possession of child pornography, conspiracy...

The Liberian President is principally coming to meet with students of the Rochas Foundation College of Africa and the Students from Liberia in particular whose parents died of Ebola and she will also be expected to key into Vision 2030 of ROCHAS FOUNDATION...

Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwe's president reportedly sacked his vice-president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, due to his "traits of disloyalty". Emmerson Mnangagwa who happens to be the front-runner to succeed Mugabe, means his sack has opened the doorway for Grace,...

On the election trail in 2016, Donald Trump promised tax reforms to tempt major US companies back onshore and “bring back trillions of dollars from American businesses that is now parked overseas”. On 1 November, Trump reiterated his commitment. “Finally,...

At least 27 people have been killed after a gunman opened fire at a church during Sunday services, police say. The attack ensued at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, a small town in Wilson County, Texas. Police official Albert Gamez Jr confirmed...

Donald Trump has indicated that he would be prepared to meet the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at some point, though he said it was still “far too early” for a one-to-one conversation with his adversary. Speaking at the outset of a five-nation Asia...