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Hurricane Matthew has weakened slightly as it moves towards Jamaica, but is still packing winds of up to 250km/h (155mph), ...

The most powerful hurricane in the Atlantic for nine years is moving towards Jamaica with wind speeds of up to ...

Norilsk Nickel said the river discolouration posed no danger to people or wildlife The world's biggest nickel producer has admitted ...

French prosecutors have placed three young women under formal investigation over a foiled attack near Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. ...

The Algerian women's goalball team have arrived in Rio after missing their first two games against the US and Israel. ...

More than 100 people are stuck on a series of cable cars high above the glaciers of Mont Blanc in ...

The Pentagon says a Russian fighter plane flew within about 10ft (3m) of one of its reconnaissance aircraft operating over ...

Tensions are simmering in Gabon after two days of violence over the disputed presidential election, with fears growing over more ...

A suspected suicide car bomber rammed the gates of the Chinese embassy in the capital of Kyrgyzistan, Bishkek, according to ...

Gabon's opposition presidential candidate Jean Ping has claimed victory over incumbent President Ali Bongo, whose family has ruled the oil-rich ...

The EPP has been blamed for a string of kidnappings, murders and attacks Eight Paraguayan soldiers have been killed ...

Iraq has hanged 36 men convicted over the 2014 massacre of hundreds of military recruits, government officials say. They had ...

A German art gallery says a print by Renaissance artist Albrecht Durer that was donated by a man who found ...

A fire during a birthday party at a bar in the northern French city of Rouen has killed at least ...

Military groups in the Southern African country of Lesotho have surrounded government and police buildings and gunfire has been heard ...

Boko Haram has seized control of a town in northeastern Nigeria, the latest to fall into the armed group's hands ...

There are conflicting reports over the fate of 17 Ebola patients who vanished after a quarantine centre in the Liberian ...

More than 3,000 homes have been destroyed by floods that hit almost half of Sudan's states over Ramadan and the ...

Uganda's Constitutional Court has annulled the tough anti-gay legislation signed into law in February. It ruled that the bill was ...