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SAN FRANCISCO, March 25, (THEWILL) – Amnesty International has revealed that a Saudi journalist has been handed a five-year jail term over tweets deemed insulting to the kingdom’s rulers. Alaa Brinji, who has reportedly already served two years behind bars,...

BEVERLY HILLS, March 25, (THEWILL) – Military and local government sources have disclosed that a suspected female suicide bomber who was intercepted in northern Cameroon on Friday before she could blow herself up claimed to be one of the...

Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou is heading for a crushing victory in a run-off election that became a near-formality when the opposition coalition declared a boycott, partial results on Tuesday showed. With 226 constituencies counted from a total of 308, Issoufou...

Zimbabwe's plan to win back international funding by paying compensation to white farmers forced off their land faces a major snag: the black farmers expected to stump up the cash say they don't have it. The new occupants working the...

Democratic Republic of Congo's Jean-Pierre Bemba became the highest-ranking politician convicted by the international war crimes court on Monday, when it judged him responsible for a campaign of rape and murder in Central African Republic. Bemba, who served as vice...

Explosions tore through the departure hall of Brussels airport on Tuesday morning killing up to 10 people and injuring 30 others and a second blast struck a metro station in the capital shortly afterwards, the Belgian public broadcaster RTBF...

Taiwan's top security agency said on Monday China's establishment of diplomatic ties with one of the island's former African allies was meant to put pressure on President-elect Tsai Ing-wen to "fall in line" before her inauguration on May 20. China...

Benin Prime Minister Lionel Zinsou on Monday conceded defeat to businessman Patrice Talon in presidential elections. "I called Patrice Talon tonight to congratulate him on his victory and wish him luck," Zinsou said in a statement on his Facebook page. Zinsou...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 20, (THEWILL) – Reports that at least 14 European university exchange students have died in a motorway coach crash near Tarragona in north-east Spain has been confirmed. At about 6am on Sunday the driver lost control near...

Russian officials said on Saturday that all 61 people on board a passenger jet flying from Dubai to southern Russia were killed when their plane crashed on its second attempt to land at Rostov-on-Don airport. Russia's emergencies ministry said the...