Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia at the centre of a diplomatic storm, holds a presidential election on Wednesday at a tense moment in the Horn of Africa.

In leaning on hawks Marco Rubio and Mike Waltz, Donald Trump is setting the stage for an existential battle against China -- although, as always, the president-elect's knack for dealmaking may ...

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Niger's military rulers on Tuesday withdrew French humanitarian NGO Acted's licence to operate amid tensions with its former colonial ruler.

British writer Samantha Harvey on Tuesday won the 2024 Booker Prize, a prestigious English-language literary award, for her novel tracking six astronauts in space for 24 hours.

A stocks rally following Donald Trump's US election win lost steam Tuesday as traders looked to consolidate recent gains, sending major indices lower on both sides of the Atlantic.

US stocks finished the day in the red Tuesday, as traders looked to consolidate some of their gains since Donald Trump's victory in th 5 US presidential election.

US President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday named South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem as head of the US Department of Homeland Security, a powerful post at the heart of the Republican's hard-line ...

Mexican prosecutors said Tuesday that they had arrested a suspect in the murder and decapitation of the mayor of a violent southern city after he had been in office for less than a week.

The Tampa Bay Rays will not be able to return to their hurricane-damaged home ballpark until the start of the 2026 season and ...

A Pretoria court on Tuesday found a former South African policeman guilty of shooting dead a young anti-apartheid campaigner in a township east of Johannesburg almost three decades ago. The high court ...

Yemen's Huthi rebels targeted two US destroyers with drones and missiles as they transited the Bab al-Mandab Strait, but the warships defeated the attacks, the Pentagon said Tuesday.