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Up to seven people died when Nigeria's army repelled an attack on Sunday by suspected Boko Haram fighters on a village near a northern state capital, residents and military sources said. Gunfire and explosions could be heard in the evening...

Eight months after a devastating earthquake hit Nepal, its government has finally opened the way for a reconstruction agency to spend $4.1 billion pledged by foreign donors to help the massive number of people rendered homeless. Two separate earthquakes in...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan talked a man out of jumping off a bridge in Istanbul, his office says. The man had climbed over a railing on the Bosphorus bridge linking Europe with Asia and was threatening to kill himself. Mr...

An explosion on the tarmac at Sabiha Gokcen airport in the Turkish city of Istanbul has killed a female cleaner. The woman who died was working on a Pegasus airlines plane overnight when the blast took place. A colleague who...

At least 200 civilians were killed in Russian air strikes in Syria from 30 September to 29 November, an Amnesty International report says. Quoting witnesses, the human rights group accuses Russia of using cluster bombs in civilian areas, and says...

Somalia's government has banned the celebration of Christmas, warning that such Christian festivities could threaten the nation's Muslim faith. "Those celebrations are not in any way related to Islam," an official at the religious affairs ministry said. Security agencies have been...

An Islamist-led insurgency has kept more than one million children out of school in four West African states, the UN children's agency has said. More than 2,000 schools were shut, while hundreds had been attacked, looted or set ablaze, Unicef...

A group of Kenyan Muslims travelling on a bus ambushed by Islamist gunmen protected Christian passengers by refusing to be split into groups, according to eyewitnesses. They told the militants "to kill them together or leave them alone", a local...

An arrest warrant has been issued for ousted Burkina Faso leader Blaise Compaore over his alleged role in the 1987 murder of ex-President Thomas Sankara, judicial sources say. Mr Compaore's ally, Gen Gilbert Diendere, was recently charged in connection with...

U.S. President Barack Obama said his administration is open to some "legitimate criticism" for failing to adequately explain its strategy to counter Islamic State, though he chided Republican presidential candidates for criticizing his policy without offering an alternative. In a...