Africa
International pressure is mounting on Saudi Arabia to stay the execution of young Shi’ite Ali Mohammed al-Nimr, accused of taking part in anti-government protests. He has been sentenced to be beheaded, and then crucified, although ...
More than 700 dead and over 850 injured is the sickening death toll following a stampede near Mecca during the Hajj religious festival. The Hajj is the world’s largest annual gathering of people and there ...
Colombia’president and Farc’s top rebel commander have shaken hands signaling a breakthrough in nearly three years of peace talks. President Juan Manuel Santos and Rodrigo Londono better known as ‘Timochenko’ reached a justice deal which ...
Nearly 11,000 migrants walked into Austria on Sunday adding to the 10 and a half thousand who’d made the same journey the day before. Aid agencies and the Red Cross were on hand to provide ...
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) achieved significant progress over the past 15 years, but persistent gaps in official development assistance and insufficient access to markets, affordable medicines and new technologies have highlighted the need for ...
Several thousand migrants and refugees spend Friday (September 18) night in an open-air sports arena after another failed attempt to walk to Turkey’s land border with Greece. Their progress towards the EU was halted by ...
US police in Stockton, California are facing growing criticism after a mobile video showed multiple officers tackling an African-American teenager to the ground and arresting him for jaywalking. Emilio Mayfield, 16, was rushing to school ...
People have taken to the streets of Burkina Faso to protest against the military coup and the arrest of several leaders in the country’s transitional government. The armed forces have named the Presidential Guard’s General ...
A powerful roadside bomb explosion has killed at least three Somali soldiers in the south of the African country. The bomb, homemade, ripped through a military checkpoint in the southern port town of Kismayo on ...
Around 23,000 people have been displaced and a state of emergency declared in California as wildfires rage in the north of the US state. An elderly, disabled woman is known to have died as flames ...
