International observers have ruled out irregularities in this week's presidential election in Madagascar, after former leader Hery Rajaonarimampianina alleged the ballot was marred by fraud. In separate statements on Friday, the Southern African Development Community (SADC)

A fast-moving wildfire that ravaged a Northern California town on Thursday sent residents racing to escape on roads that turned into tunnels of fire as thick smoke darkened the daytime sky, wiping out what

Colombo, Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka's President Maithripala Sirisena has dissolved the country's parliament and declared a snap election on January 5, hours after his coalition admitted that it could not muster enough parliamentary support for

At least 20 people have been killed and 17 wounded in explosions followed by heavy gunfire in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, according to police. Plumes of smoke billowed into the air on Friday as at least

Austria has launched a probe into an army colonel suspected of spying for Russia for decades, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has said, the latest in a string of cases where Moscow has been accused of espionage

DAMASCUS: Daesh militants shot and killed two children during an operation to liberate a group of hostages from southern Syria that were being held by the extremist group since July, a father and activists

DUBAI: Saudi Arabia has welcomed today’s resolution titled: The Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over

BEIRUT: Syrian government forces killed 23 rebels near Idlib province on Friday, the deadliest clash to rock a buffer zone where a Russian-Turkish truce is to be enforced. The attack on a position held

A Saudi-UAE-led military coalition and pro-government forces in Yemen have launched a new "vast offensive" to capture the strategic port city of Hodeidah from Houthi rebels, according to the country's internationally recognised government. "A military operation has

US President Donald Trump signed a proclamation on Friday suspending the entry of migrants through the US southern border between ports of entry for 90 days. The proclamation, taken together with a regulation issued