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Senegal's government has told hotels to improve security or face closure, after recent terror attacks in the region. Authorities would have no choice but to close hotels which failed to introduce the measures in the coming days, the interior minister...

Kenyan forces in Somalia were warned of an impending al-Shabab attack 45 days before the group overran one of their bases, a Somali general says. Kenya was given "clear and reliable intelligence" about the threat, General Abas Ibrahim Gurey told...

The U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State needs to take back the cities Mosul and Raqqa and will use "boots on the ground" as part of its strategy in doing so, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Friday. "We need...

President Vladimir Putin probably approved a 2006 Russian intelligence operation to murder ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko with radioactive polonium-210 in London, a British inquiry concluded on Thursday, prompting a row with Moscow. Russia, which had declined to cooperate in the...

West African hotels from Dakar to N'Djamena are strengthening security, adding armed guards and increasing cooperation with local authorities as a pair of high-profile attacks have exposed a growing Islamist threat to foreign travelers. Al Qaeda fighters killed 30 people...

Four terror suspects in Kenya have been killed during a dawn raid on a safe house in the coastal town of Malindi, police in the East African nation say. The officers recovered arms, ammunition and a map of the area...

SAN FRANCISCO, January 20, (THEWILL) – Four Nigerians, from one family, have died in a house fire at Prince George’s county, Maryland, in the United States. The house fire, which started at about 2.30 am (US time) on Tuesday, resulted...

Pope Francis told members of the world's wealthy political and economic elite on Wednesday that they should not be deaf to the cry of the poor and must consider their own role in creating inequality. New technologies such as robotics...

Austria declared on Wednesday it would cap the number of people allowed to claim asylum this year at less than half last year's total, and its chancellor said border controls would have to be stepped up "massively"; but how...

A suicide car bomber targeted a van carrying journalists working for a private Afghan television channel on Wednesday, killing seven people during evening rush hour close to the national parliament in Kabul, officials said.It was the latest in a...