By Katy Migiro NAIROBI: By giving scholarships to girls who are virgins, South Africa is trying to control women’s bodies while ignoring the...
By Katy Migiro NAIROBI: By giving scholarships to girls who are virgins, South Africa is trying to control women’s bodies while ignoring the...
By Philip Pullella ROME: Pope Francis asked Protestants and other Christian Churches for forgiveness for past persecution by Catholics as the Vatican announced...
By Gabriela Baczynska and Alastair Macdonald AMSTERDAM: The European Union edged closer on Monday to accepting that its Schengen open-borders area may be...
Paris: France and Britain on Monday dismissed a video showing jihadists preparing for the Paris attacks in Islamic State territory, as the European...
Brazzaville: Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso will seek a third term in office during presidential elections in March in line with recent changes...
Pope in a recent meeting with Jews Vatican City: Pope Francis will celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation by attending an ecumenical...
Stockholm: A young asylum seeker on Monday allegedly stabbed to death an employee at a refugee centre in Sweden as police demanded more...
Rome: Rome's main train station was evacuated on Monday evening after railway police said they had received an alert that an armed man...
WASHINGTON: A U.S. Treasury official said the United States considers Russian President Vladimir Putin to be corrupt and that it has known this...
The two sides missed a January 22 deadline for forming the transitional government after rebels rejected South Sudab President Salva Kiir's (pictured) creation...
Stockholm: A Swedish human rights activist detained earlier this month by China for allegedly posing a threat to national security, has been released,...
Khartoum: Clashes between Sudanese forces and rebels in conflict-hit Darfur have forced some 10,000 people to flee their homes, the UN-African Union mission...
Costa Rican environmental activist Jairo Mora. Photograph: Carlyn Samuels San José: Seven men accused of brutally murdering Costa Rican environmental activist Jairo Mora...
Jikany Nuer White Army fighters holds their weapons in Upper Nile State, South Sudan February 10, 2014. Reuters/Goran Tomasevic By Louis Charbonneau and...
Thessaloniki, Greece: A Pakistani man was stabbed to death on the Greek-Macedonian border on Monday as the European Commission pledged to increase security...
Warsaw: Poland's former president and Solidarity union leader Lech Walesa will publicly defend himself against allegations that he was in league with the...
SARAJEVO: A Bosnian tycoon and head of a party in the ruling coalition was arrested on Monday on suspicion of obstructing justice in...
WASHINGTON: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that its 2012 decision that barred mandatory life sentences without parole for those under age...
