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An Egyptian military court made a mistake by sentencing a four-year-old boy to life in prison for murder last week, the military has acknowledged. Spokesman Col Mohammed Samir said the court should have sentenced a 16-year-old with a similar name...

The row between Apple and the FBI over access to a dead murderer's phone should start a debate about government requests for data, says Bill Gates. The FBI wants Apple to unlock the iPhone of Syed Rizwan Farook who killed...

South Africa's President Jacob Zuma will visit Iran on Sunday and Monday to "strengthen bilateral relations between the two countries" the presidency said on Monday without elaborating. Pretoria is considering building an oil refinery that will process Iranian crude to...

Libya's oil facilities are likely to suffer further attacks unless a United Nations-backed unity government is approved, the head of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) told Reuters in an interview on Monday. Mustafa Sanalla also said suspected Islamic State militants...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday he and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, had reached a provisional agreement on terms of a cessation of hostilities in Syria and the sides were closer to a ceasefire than...

The United States rejected a North Korean proposal to discuss a peace treaty to formally end the Korean War because it did not address denuclearization on the peninsula, the State Department said on Sunday. State Department spokesman John Kirby made...

BEVERLY HILLS, February 21, (THEWILL) – Former Governor Jeb Bush has suspended his campaign, ending a quest for the White House, after disappointing finishes in the first three contests of the 2016 election cycle. Jeb Bush dropped out of the...

SAN FRANCISCO, February 20, (THEWILL) –  An Egyptian court has sentenced a four-year-old boy, Ahmed Mansour Karni, to life in prison for committing four murders, attempting another eight, vandalising property and threatening police officers - all before the age...

U.S. warplanes carried out air strikes against Islamic State-linked militants in western Libya on Friday, killing as many as 40 people in an operation targeting a suspect linked to two deadly attacks last year in neighboring Tunisia. It was the...

Niger will hold an election on Sunday in which President Mahamadou Issoufou is running for a new term with a vow to crush an Islamist militant threat, but the opposition accuses him of another type of crackdown - against...