تعرضت واحدة من أشهر الممثلات الكوميديات والساخرين السياسيين في زيمبابوي للاختطاف والضرب والتعنيف والإهانة، بعد اتهامها بمهاجمة الحكومة والرئيس.
وقالت الممثلة سامانثا كورييا إن 3 رجال ملثمين أتوا إلى شقتها وعرفوا عن أنفسهم على أنهم من الشرطة، وعندما (...)
Abuja - Troops of 3 Battalion, 22 Brigade of the Nigerian Army have killed five Boko Haram terrorists, just as their colleagues from 151 Battalion on a routine fighting patrol within Lt. Col Abu Ali Range discovered freshly dug hole ready for (...)
Terrorist groups, including what is called Islamic State (also known as ISIS), are paying human traffickers fees for child refugees in an attempt to attract new recruits, according to a report published in The Guardian.
Citing counter-extremism (...)
A high-rank UK commander in the Middle East revealed that the terrorist group ISIS was planning to cross-Europe attacks.
A "huge amount" of Islamic State intelligence found after the capture of the Syrian town of Manbij was related to terrorist (...)
An armed and masked man has reportedly been shot dead by German special police after storming a cinema complex in Viernheim, in Germany's Hesse region.
The gunman was said to have taken hostages, all of whom have escaped uninjured.
According to (...)
A former senior director at a British firm says that it employed mercenaries from Sierra Leone to work in Iraq because they were cheaper than Europeans and did not check if they were former child soldiers.
James Ellery, who was a director of Aegis (...)
Officials in Cyprus have said the supposed suicide belt worn by the hijacker was not real, Egypt's civil aviation ministry said.
This will partly explain how the man was able to get the item onboard the plane, but raises questions about whether crew (...)
The hacking collective Anonymous has vowed once again to "dismantle" Donald Trump's presidential campaign and to "expose what he doesn't want the public to know".
The group announced its re-engagement of "OpTrump" through its traditional propaganda (...)
Three Palestinians have been shot dead as they carried out attacks and another has been killed in clashes with Israeli soldiers.
Early on Thursday a Palestinian man stabbed two security guards at an entrance to an industrial zone at the Jewish (...)
This week trade ministers from across the globe will meet in Nairobi to try to hammer out a deal to follow the 2013 Bali package, hoping for the first universal agreement by World Trade Organization (WTO) members on measures to lower international (...)
There were never more global leaders under one roof than here in Paris at the global climate negotiations on Monday. And they all talked about leadership, about fixing climate change, about not leaving an uninhabitable planet for our children. Many (...)
The Prince of Wales is to give a speech on protecting forests as efforts to cut emissions from deforestation are discussed at the UN climate talks in Paris.
Experts warn agriculture, forestry and land use are responsible for almost a quarter of (...)
US president salutes French people for going ahead with crucial climate talks in his address to heads of state on first day of the conference.
Barack Obama has told crucial UN climate talks in Paris that the negotiations represent an act of defiance (...)
‘We simply can't do any more,' prime minister says in announcing Sweden's asylum regime will revert to EU minimum.
Sweden needs "respite" from the tens of thousands of refugees knocking at its door, the government has said, announcing tough measures (...)
Groups of people who have been evacuated from the Bataclan concert hall in Paris file onto buses which have been chartered to take them to safety.
More than 100 people are estimated to have died at the venue after gunmen opened fire and took (...)
David Cameron is to chair an emergency Cobra meeting of ministers and senior security officials in Whitehall to coordinate Britain's response to Friday night's attacks in Paris, which killed at least 127 people.
Ministers are likely to receive (...)
World leaders have condemned Friday's terror attacks in Paris, as cities across the world stepped up security in response to the killings.
The UK prime minister, David Cameron, warned the country to be prepared for the possibility that Britons could (...)
A pilotless US military drone crashed in rural Kuwait on Sunday, causing no injuries, the small Gulf Arab state's defence ministry said in a statement.
The incident occurred in Bir Mutla, the ministry said, near the Ali Al Salem air base which hosts (...)
A British Airways jet has caught fire at Las Vegas airport, sending smoke billowing into the air, after suffering what the pilot described as a "catastrophic failure" of the left engine.
British Airways fire: 'We saw the smoke. The smell was bitter. (...)
Egypt's pyramids were built by the biblical Joseph to store grain and were not, as archaeologists believe, tombs for pharaohs, Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson has said.
The retired neurosurgeon, who is seeking his party's nomination for (...)
British Airways has said it will continue flying over Egypt's Sinai peninsula after a Russian plane crashed on Saturday, killing all 224 people on board.
The company made the announcement after major airlines Emirates, Lufthansa and Air France said (...)
David Cameron is to meet the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, this week for further discussions on the EU refugee crisis and Syria, as well as the state of Britain's talks on a renegotiated status in Europe.
The planned meeting with the German (...)
Three scientists from Ireland, Japan and China have won the Nobel prize in medicine for discoveries that helped doctors fight malaria and infections caused by roundworm parasites.
The judges in Stockholm awarded the prize to William C Campbell, (...)
Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, has called for Libya's factions to end their civil war after yet another deadline passed without a ceasefire and fighting raged on across the country. At a meeting in New York originally planned to celebrate (...)
Israel's rightwing deputy foreign minister heckled Jordan's foreign minister in a breach of diplomatic protocol during a speech at the UN over the issue of mounting tension around Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque.
According to sources widely quoted in the (...)