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Gabon President Ali Bongo was sworn in for a second term on Tuesday and called for unity at a low-key ceremony following a razor-thin election victory whose integrity was questioned by international observers. Bongo's victory by less than 6,000 votes...

Inside the election war rooms of Paris, French politicians on both left and right are waking up to the threat Emmanuel Macron poses ahead of next year's presidential election and stepping up attacks on the fresh-faced former economy minister. Macron...

About 300 protesters took to the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina, in a fourth night of demonstrations on Friday, calling on authorities to "release the tapes" of the fatal police shooting of a black man, hours after his family...

The moment North Carolina police shot a black man was captured on video by his wife, who can be heard pleading with officers: "Don't shoot him!" In the footage, Rakeyia Scott tells husband Keith Scott to get out of his...

SAN FRANCISCO, September 23, (THEWILL) - President Ian Khama of Botswana has called on Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean president, to step aside and allow a new leadership in the country. Speaking in Gaborone, capital of Botswana, Khama said the call had...

The U.S. Senate cleared the way for a $1.15 billion sale of tanks and other military equipment to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, defending a frequent partner in the Middle East recently subject to harsh criticism in Congress. The Senate voted...

A well-known Vietnamese political blogger and his assistant lost their appeal on Thursday when a higher court upheld their jail terms and reaffirmed they had abused their freedom and hurt the state's interests. The five-year term for blogger Nguyen Huu...

One of Vladimir Putin's closest friends said on Thursday he believed Donald Trump would be the next president of the United States and that Western leaders were no match for the Russian president. Sergei Roldugin, a childhood friend of Putin's...

Brazilian police arrested former Finance Minister Guido Mantega on Thursday as a sweeping corruption investigation closed in on the inner circle of the leftist Workers Party leaders who ran the country for 13 years. Federal police said in a statement...

Syrian rebels and pro-government forces battled each other on major frontlines near Aleppo and Hama, and air strikes reportedly killed a dozen people including four medical workers, as a ceasefire appeared to have completely unraveled. The renewed battles demonstrated the...