At least nine people were killed during clashes between riot police and protesters in Senegal after the opposition leader, Ousmane Sonko, was given a two-year

Australia’s most-decorated living soldier Ben Roberts-Smith has lost a historic defamation case against three newspapers that accused him of war crimes in Afghanistan. The outlets

The next president of Africa’s largest democracy, Nigeria, is due to be sworn in on Monday. Bola Tinubu, 71, won February’s election with a promise

At least two people have been killed and 23 injured in a missile strike on a medical clinic in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro,

India and Australia have announced a migration deal as they aim to strengthen their economic cooperation. The announcement came after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi

At least 19 children died in a “horrific” school dormitory fire in Guyana, which has shocked the nation and led to its president to declare

An outbreak of cholera has killed at least 10 people in South Africa’s most populous province of Gauteng, health authorities have said. At least 95

At least eight people have been killed by heavy flooding and mudslides in the northern Italian region of Emilia Romagna, with more than 13,000 residents being forced to evacuate,

Gunmen have attacked a US diplomatic convoy in south-east Nigeria’s Anambra state, killing four people and abducting three others. No US citizens were in the

Authorities in New Zealand are still trying to determine how many people died in a blaze that tore through a hostel in the capital Wellington

Turkey’s fiercely contested presidential election appears likely to go to a second round after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan failed to secure 50% of votes cast

Pakistan’s ex-prime minister Imran Khan is to be freed from custody, a day after the Supreme Court ruled his dramatic arrest on corruption charges was