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  Des Moines: Hillary Clinton won a razor-thin victory over Bernie Sanders in the Iowa caucuses that kicked off the 2016 US presidential race,...

  Antananarivo: Thirteen people were killed as Madagascar police and villagers clashed with armed cattle rustlers on Tuesday near Isalo national park in the...

Johannes Tomana   Harare: Zimbabwe's chief prosecutor appeared in court Tuesday charged with obstructing justice after he dropped a case against men accused of...

  Djibouti lies on strategic shipping route Chinese facility will be first military base abroad Presidents wants to nation to become hub for Africa  ...

  ADDIS ABABA: Funding for a multinational force to combat Boko Haram’s deadly Islamist insurgency in West and Central Africa remains well short of...

  By Amy Tennery and Gina Cherelus   After what seemed like a very long silence by his standards, Donald Trump returned to Twitter on...

  Des Moines, United States: The US presidential race looked suddenly wide open Tuesday after frontrunners Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton suffered chastening evenings...

  More companies join Zika vaccine development race Safe shot for at-risk women and girls a big challenge Full regulatory approval of vaccine will...

  MOGADISHU: Two passengers were injured in an explosion that blew a hole in the fuselage of a commercial plane taking off from the...

  Niamey:  Some 10,000 people shouting "Hama for president!" packed a Niger rally in support of jailed opposition figure Hama Amadou, who is running...

U.N. agency launches Zika global response unit. Sanofi cites Zika’s rapid spread in vaccine effort. Zika linked to severe birth defect microcephaly.   By...

  SANTA MONICA, Calif.: A California judge on Tuesday ordered comedian Bill Cosby to give a second deposition in the case of a woman...

  Geneva: The latest push to end Syria's tangled conflict was in fresh disarray Tuesday as the government denied formal talks had begun and...

Marco Rubio   Strong in Iowa test, senator faces New Hampshire challenge Clinton scrapes by in Iowa, but rival favored in next vote   By...

Pedro Sanchez   Madrid: Spain's King Felipe VI nominated Socialist party chief Pedro Sanchez as candidate to lead the country Tuesday after the conservative...

  Miami:  A county in Texas on Tuesday reported a case of Zika virus being sexually transmitted, raising new concerns about the spread of...

  Paris: By declaring a surge of microcephaly cases in Latin America to be a "public health emergency of international concern", the World Health...

  WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama wants to boost U.S. aid to Colombia to help with security and a peace accord in the long-running war...