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Burkina Faso's interim President Michel Kafando has been freed and is in good health, the new junta leaders say. However, Prime Minister Isaac Zida, who was also detained when the presidential guard stormed a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, remains under...

Croatia will "force" Hungary to accept migrants by continuing to send them to the border, its PM says. Zoran Milanovic's statement was the latest in an increasingly bad-tempered exchange of views over how to handle the migrant influx. Hungary has accused...

Migrants flooding into Croatia will be "moved on", PM Zoran Milanovic has warned, adding that his country cannot become a "migrant hotspot". He said the country's borders would not be shut completely, but it had reached its limit. His remarks came...

The number of children forced to flee Boko Haram’s insurgency in Nigeria and neighbouring countries has reached 1.4 million, the U.N. children agency UNICEF said on Friday. Around 500,000 were displaced in the last five months after a sharp rise...

Militants have killed at least 17 people after attacking an air force base in the northern city of Peshawar. The gunmen, dressed in police uniforms, stormed the Badaber air base on Friday morning, Major General Asim Bajwa said. Sixteen of the...

A shadowy spy master formerly the right-hand man to toppled President Blaise Compaore seized power in Burkina Faso at the head of a military coup on Thursday, less than a month before elections meant to restore democracy in the...

Riot police fired water cannon and tear gas at migrants demanding to be let through Hungary's newly shut EU frontier on Wednesday, while refugees at other Balkan borders clambered through cornfields in search of new routes. Hungary's decision to shut...

The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic state has little to show for itself, a year after its establishment. "A legitimate question arises - what results have we got from sending into the...

Zimbabwe's parliament suspended live television and radio broadcasting of a speech by President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday after the main opposition party threatened to disrupt the event. Opposition groups booed and heckled Mugabe about the deteriorating economy in August during...

More than 1,000 people demonstrated on the streets of Democratic Republic of Congo's capital on Tuesday against what they said are plans by President Joseph Kabila to cling to power after his constitutional mandate ends next year. The crowd, which...