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...
Representative image By Tarek Amara CARTHAGE, Tunisia: Several thousand Tunisian police marched to the presidential palace on Monday to demand more pay in...
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...
Rome: Iran's return to the international fold accelerated on Monday as President Hassan Rouhani sealed multi-billion dollar deals with Italian companies keen to...
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...
The statement came a day after Foreign Minister Stephane Dion (pictured) was criticized for saying Palestinian initiatives toward statehood in international forums and...
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...
Riyadh investment conference draws officials, businessmen. Held as riyal pressured, state finances in big deficit. Top officials promise big shift towards private sector....
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...
