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Burkina Faso's interim President Michel Kafando has been formally reinstated a week after the military takeover. The ceremony took place in the capital, Ouagadougou, in the presence of several West African leaders who helped mediate an end to the crisis. It...

Egypt president pardons 100 prisoners, including Al Jazeera journalist: sourcesEgypt's President Abdel Fatta al-Sisi pardoned 100 prisoners, including Canadian Al Jazeera TV journalist Mohamed Fahmy, on Wednesday, security sources said. The reported pardons came a day before Sisi plans to...

Malaysia has arrested six people suspected of being part of a human trafficking network and who may have helped a bomber who killed 20 people at a Bangkok shrine last month escape from Thailand, police said on Wednesday. The suspects...

Troops loyal to Burkina Faso's government massed in the capital on Tuesday and told soldiers behind a coup to disarm and surrender by 10 a.m. or face attack, a loyalist officer said, setting up a showdown over control of...

Hungary's prime minister has called for a "united European stance" on migration at the start of a week of intense diplomatic activity. Viktor Orban urged consensus, saying migrants were "breaking the doors" and "millions" could reach Europe. Foreign ministers from Poland,...

A residential property in Cape Town owned by the Zimbabwean government was auctioned for 3.76 million rand ($281,500) on Monday, in a symbolic victory against the land grab policies of President Robert Mugabe, lawyers said. In 2008, a tribunal set...

At least 54 people were killed and 90 wounded in a multiple bomb attack in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri in Borno state on Sunday evening, a police spokesman said on Monday. The city has been free of attack...

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi pledged to form a government free from corruption, empower workers and end reliance on foreign aid, as she campaigned on Monday for the southeast Asian country's first free national vote in 25...

Hungary and Croatia traded threats on Saturday as thousands of exhausted migrants poured over their borders, deepening the disarray in Europe over how to handle the tide of humanity. More than 20,000 migrants, many of them refugees from the Syrian...

Hundreds of protesters burned tyres and erected barricades in the streets of Burkina Faso's capital on Saturday in a third day of unrest since a military coup ousted the country's interim government. Young people wielding sticks and slingshots dragged railway...