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Lesotho authorities are investigating a security breach after wire-tapping gadgets were discovered in the office of the new prime minister ...

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas was discharged from hospital in the Israel-occupied West Bank on Saturday after a brief "routine checkup", ...

A defiant Iran vowed on Saturday to press ahead with its missile programme and condemned new US sanctions, as tensions ...

Boko Haram Islamists have published a video showing three kidnapped members of an oil exploration team, after an ambush in ...

North Korea has hailed as a success its latest test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), describing it as a ...

‘More than 40’ killed in battle with Boko Haram in Nigeria More than 40 people have died in north-east Nigeria ...

The US and South Korean militaries conducted a live-fire exercise using surface-to-surface missiles in response to North Korea's test of ...

North Korea launched a ballistic missile Friday, the Pentagon said, just weeks after Pyongyang tested an intercontinental rocket capable of ...

A man suspected of killing his wife while on a cruise ship in the US state of Alaska did so ...

A man suspected of killing his wife while on a cruise ship in the US state of Alaska did so ...

An international animal welfare charity was on Friday completing the evacuation of a dozen animals stranded in a neglected zoo ...

Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif resigns after probe into his family’s wealth Nawaz Sharif has resigned as prime minister of Pakistan ...

US officials Thursday hailed the arrest and indictment of a Russian accused of laundering billions of dollars through a Bitcoin ...

Terror in Kashmir has a new name after a prominent young militant was named as the head of a new ...

British miner Anglo American has set aside $101 million (87 million euros) to cover potential damages for former South African ...

A border standoff between Chinese and Indian troops on a remote Himalayan plateau has heightened long-standing tensions while ensnaring a ...

A malfunction in an amusement ride at the Ohio State Fair sent riders catapulting through the air Wednesday, killing one ...

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that transgender people may not serve "in any capacity" in the US military, upending a ...

A German helicopter with two crew on board crashed in northern Mali on Wednesday in an apparent accident while monitoring ...

Eight people were killed when a four-storey building collapsed after heavy rains in Nigeria's commercial hub of Lagos, the emergency ...