Tag: local official

Thousands of rats have descended on villages on an island in southern Myanmar, a local official said on Tuesday, in ...

A threat by radical Islamists in northeast Mali to punish an unmarried couple with death by stoning finally was not ...

Suspected Islamic extremists have wrecked a primary school in central Mali out of hostility to Western-style education, local administrators and ...

In the midst of China's Cultural Revolution, a 14-year-old coal miner bought a yellowing, torn copy of Honore de Balzac's ...

In Morocco's northern port city of Al-Hoceima, fishermen are clamouring for state support for a struggling sector which they say ...

A Russian man has been put into protective custody in hospital after he was attacked by a crowd of angry ...

An unmarried couple were stoned to death in public in northeast Mali by Islamists, local officials told AFP on Wednesday, ...

An unmarried couple were stoned to death in public in northeast Mali by Islamists, the first such known occurrence since ...

Four Malian Red Cross employees have been kidnapped in the country's restive centre, the organisation said Monday, while a local ...

Hundreds of people from Democratic Republic of Congo's central Kasai region have been pouring into neighbouring Angola every day for ...

Iranian officials said Friday there was "no chance" of saving nine coal miners trapped for the past two days after ...

In Morocco's neglected Rif region, where outrage erupted last year over the gruesome death of a fishmonger, calls for justice ...

At least 70 coal miners were trapped after an explosion in northern Iran on Wednesday, Iranian media said. The mine ...

A desert warfare specialist, Chad's Hissene Habre seized power in 1982 and quickly embraced the role of ruthless dictator, with ...

Iraqi forces advanced in west Mosul Tuesday, closing in on the Old City where jihadists executed civilians in a desperate ...

Jihadist militants from the Islamic State group posing as liberating security forces killed at least 15 civilians who welcomed them ...

Three people were killed and four others wounded on Wednesday in a suicide attack in Cameroon's restive Far North, a ...

A Chinese official who allegedly declined to smoke in front of Muslims in Xinjiang has been demoted for taking an ...

Hospitals across Syria's rebel-held Idlib province are overwhelmed with casualties from a suspected chemical attack that has killed scores of ...

The children proudly wield donated plastic water bottles like freshly dug nuggets of treasure, smiling despite the fear and death ...