Lagos--Masked gunmen in central Nigeria kidnapped an American woman doing missionary work, with ransom the suspected motive for the attack, police told AFP...
Lagos--Masked gunmen in central Nigeria kidnapped an American woman doing missionary work, with ransom the suspected motive for the attack, police told AFP...
Algiers--Riot police prevented a protest in the Algerian capital Tuesday against state energy giant Sonatrach's controversial exploitation of shale gas in the southern...
Aden--Yemeni President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi has retracted his resignation after escaping house arrest in the militia-controlled capital, an aide said Tuesday, staking a...
Prague--An armed man killed nine people on Tuesday after bursting into a restaurant in the eastern Czech town of Uhersky Brod, state television...
Jerusalem--The Palestinians may be turning to the international courts to advance their bid for statehood but they have lost a first battle in...
Brussels--Eurozone finance ministers backed a four-month extension to Greece's bailout Tuesday after approving a list of reforms submitted by Athens as demanded by...
Paris--A French woman working for an international organisation in the Yemeni capital Sanaa was kidnapped on Tuesday morning, France's foreign ministry said. "We...
Paris--The foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany on Tuesday called for a ceasefire deal to be strictly implemented in eastern Ukraine,...
Madrid--Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy warned Tuesday that "demagoguery" threatened Spain's economic recovery and the welfare state, ahead of a string of elections in...
Peshawar, Pakistan--Police in Pakistan have arrested a schoolgirl for trying to extort money from wealthy men by pretending she was linked to Taliban...
New Delhi--India's ruling Hindu nationalist party will for the first time govern the country's only Muslim-majority state of Kashmir under a power-sharing deal...
Vilnius--Lithuania announced on Tuesday it would return to limited conscription later this year as concern mounts over Russian military exercises near NATO Baltic...
Bukavu, DR Congo--The army of the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday launched an assault against Rwandan Hutu rebels in the volatile east...
Istanbul--Turkey has unveiled a masterplan for building a canal through Istanbul, reviving a scheme championed by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan but dismissed by...
Dhaka--A prominent Bangladesh opposition politician was abducted on Tuesday, allegedly by police, days after he appeared to say he was open to seeking...
Kandahar, Afghanistan--Masked gunmen have abducted 30 Shiite Muslim men who were travelling by bus through southern Afghanistan after returning from Iran, officials and...
Kano, Nigeria--At least 17 people were killed on Tuesday when a blast ripped through a bus in Potiskum, northeast Nigeria, witnesses and rescue...
MANILA, Philippines - President Benigno Aquino III is committed to ferret out the truth behind the deadly Mamasapano incident and is unperturbed by...
