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Burkina Faso's Lieutenant-Colonel Isaac Zida, who took power after the resignation of the country's longtime president Blaise Compaore last week, promised on Tuesday to return the country to civilian rule, a traditional leader said. "Lieutenant-Colonel Zida and his delegation came...

Millions of Shi'ite Muslims gathered at shrines and mosques across Iraq on Tuesday for the Ashoura religious ritual with Iraqi security forces on alert for any repeat of the attacks that have inflicted mass casualties during past pilgrimages. The presence...

Zambia's interim president Guy Scott reversed his dismissal of defense minister and presidential front-runner Edgar Lungu as the ruling party's secretary-general on Tuesday after the sacking triggered protests. Scott told state-owned ZNBC Radio he had rescinded his order a day...

Mexican police have captured a fugitive former mayor and his wife who the government says were the probable masterminds behind the abduction of 43 student teachers feared massacred in September, officials said on Tuesday. Police working with a local drug...

A happy reunion in Dallas. An Ebola patient in France. And a condition upgrade in New York. Here are the latest developments in the Ebola outbreak: U.S. DEVELOPMENTS Nurse reunited with her pet Amidst loving squeezes and oohs and aahs (from her), and...

At least 60 people were killed and more than 110 were wounded Sunday in a Lahore, Pakistan, suicide blast near the country's border with India, police said. A suicide bomber detonated his vest after a daily parade at the Wagah...

Iraqi Kurdish fighters have joined the fight against Islamic State militants in Kobani, hoping their support for fellow Kurds backed by U.S.-led air strikes will keep the ultra-hardline group from seizing the Syrian border town. The Syrian Observatory for Human...

Burkina Faso's army cleared thousands of protesters from the capital and opened fire at state TV headquarters on Sunday, killing one person, as it sought to restore order following the resignation of President Blaise Compaore two days ago. Compaore's 27...

Fisherman and coastguards pulled bodies from the sea at the mouth of Istanbul's Bosphorus strait on Monday after a boat believed to be carrying dozens of illegal migrants sank, Turkish authorities and a shipping agent said. The Istanbul governor's office...

Boko Haram has denied claims by Nigeria's government that it has agreed to a ceasefire and will release more than 200 abducted schoolgirls. The group's leader, Abubakar Shekau, said the girls had converted to Islam and been married off since...