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Ethiopia's army has surrounded the area in neighbouring South Sudan where it believes more than 100 abducted Ethiopian children are being held, local media report. The children were taken in a cross-border raid in the Gambella region last Friday, in...

The flame for the Olympic Games in Brazil has been lit in southern Greece. It will be taken by various runners on an international torch relay that will culminate at the opening ceremony in Rio de Janeiro on 5 August. The...

Civil rights activist Harriet Tubman will replace slaveholding former President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, becoming the first African-American woman to be featured on the face of U.S. paper currency in more than a century. The U.S. Treasury will...

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff vowed on Monday to fight impeachment tooth-and-nail in the Senate after a heavy defeat in the lower house of Congress raised the likelihood of an end to 13 years of leftist rule in Latin America's...

Taiwanese officials will travel to diplomatic rival China on Wednesday to discuss two cases of telecoms fraud, one of which led to 45 Taiwan nationals being deported to China from Kenya, infuriating Taipei. The officials hoped to establish a way...

Former Malaysian premier Mahathir Mohamad, calling for Prime Minister Najib Razak to resign over the 1MDB state fund scandal, has applied for a court order to freeze Najib's assets, Mahathir's lawyers said on Tuesday. The lawyers said in a statement...

The Nigerian army, backed by the country's air force, on Monday repelled an attack an attack by Boko Haram fighters near the border with Niger in the jihadists' northeast heartland, the military said. The group allied to Islamic State had...

Brazil's leftist President Dilma Rousseff suffered a humiliating loss in a crucial impeachment vote in the lower house of Congress on Sunday and is almost certain to be forced from office months before the nation hosts the Olympics. Fireworks lit...

SAN FRANCISCO, April 17, (THEWILL) – An evil perverted man has been convicted of tying an 18-month-old girl to a motel bed and raping her and even recorded the act. The Judge described the man, Eric Devin Masters, as "truly...

A former politician who described Tutsis as "cockroaches" and called for their extermination has been jailed for life in Rwanda over the 1994 genocide. Leon Mugesera, an academic, was extradited back to his home country from Canada four years ago. He...