Freetown---Sierra Leone imposed a three-day nationwide lockdown Friday for the second time in six months in a bid to prevent a resurgence of...
Freetown---Sierra Leone imposed a three-day nationwide lockdown Friday for the second time in six months in a bid to prevent a resurgence of...
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories---Hamas on Friday denounced a European Union decision to keep the Palestinian Islamist group and de facto Gaza Strip ruler...
Quito---A lightning strike injured 52 people at a training school for traffic police near Quito, with 15 briefly hospitalized, officials said Friday. "The...
London---Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate visited a charity in London on Friday on what media said would be her last public...
Moscow---US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in a phone call Friday agreed a possible meeting of foreign...
Washington---US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday urged Iran to take the final steps needed to bring long-running nuclear...
Former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh Sanaa---Former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh, who is close to the country's Shiite Huthi rebels, called Friday...
Berlin---German and Austrian airlines on Friday joined other international carriers in adopting a new safety rule to ensure two crew are in a...
Stockholm---Swedish poet Tomas Transtroemer, who won the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature, has died at the age of 83, his publishing house Bonniers...
President Yoweri Museveni Kampala---Radio and television stations in Uganda were on Friday ordered to provide live coverage of major events involving the country's...
New York---Two people were missing on Friday after an explosion brought down three buildings and damaged a fourth property in New York's popular...
Mogadishu---Somalia's Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab militants launched a car bomb attack followed by an armed raid on a Mogadishu hotel Friday, causing several casualties, a...
Slovak President Andrej Kiska Bratislava---A video featuring Slovak President Andrej Kiska singing and playing the guitar with a rock band posted Friday on...
Kiev---Fighting close to the strategic eastern Ukraine port of Mariupol, the last major city in the conflict zone controlled by Kiev, claimed one...
Geneva---The UN Human Rights Council decided Friday to send a mission to war-torn Libya to investigate a range of abuses by different sides...
Washington---In the latest sign a nuclear deal between world powers and Iran is imminent, British foreign minister Philip Hammond said Friday he was...
Tunis---Tunisian officials said Friday they expected tens of thousands of protesters to march against extremism over the weekend, ahead of the reopening of...
New York---US health care giant Johnson & Johnson announced plans Friday to collaborate with Google on surgical robotics. The two companies said in...
