Niger to compensate child fluoride victims
Niger is to pay out at least $3.5 million in compensation to hundreds of children of the central town of ...
Boko Haram raid in Nigeria leaves 2 dead: witnesses
Boko Haram jihadists razed three villages in northeast Nigeria in attacks that killed two people and injured several others, civilian ...
Boko Haram kill 12 farmers in Nigeria: militia
Boko Haram jihadists on Saturday hacked 12 farmers to death as they worked on their fields in the volatile northeastern ...
Two Guinean men arrested on romance-scan suspicions
Two Guinean men have been arrested on suspicion of belonging to a ring that has defrauded more than Bt1.8 million ...
Co-founder of the Facebook-acquired Oculus quits
CALIFORNIA, U.S. - In what came as yet another setback for the world's largest social media company, the cofounder of ...
Hong Kong stock index drops 778 points
SYDNEY, Australia - Geopolitical concerns weighed on stock markets in Asia on Tuesday while regionally a rebound in Chinese stocks ...
Regional cooperation in Asia Pacific necessary, says report
METRO MANILA, Philippines - Regional cooperation is increasingly necessary to tackle a rising number of cross-border challenges in Asia and ...
Saudi's crucial annual conference website hacked, defaced
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Amid mounting global pressure to come clean on the circumstances surrounding the death of its veteran ...
Uber to appeal Singapore competition watchdog's penalty
SINGAPORE - Months after Uber Technologies sold its Southeast Asian business to the Singapore-based firm Grab, both the companies were ...
Chinese government adds to tax deductions
BEIJING, China – In a bid to boost the economy, China is to allow an increasing number of items as ...
U.S. officials confirm Syrian mosques now being targeted
WASHINGTON DC - The U.S.-led coalition has targeted a number of mosques and a religious building in the past week ...
Two deaths after boat carrying migrants sinks
ISTANBUL, Turkey – A boat carrying migrants has sunk in the Aegean Sea, just 50 metres off Turkey’s Mugla coast, ...
Trump seeks disarmament, then threatens Russia with nukes
MOSCOW, Russia - Two days after the U.S. President Donald Trump announced his intentions to withdraw the U.S. from the ...
Trump's bid to nix a nuclear arms treaty imperils its allies
WASHINGTON, U.S. - The U.S. President Donald Trump, who has proactively pursued better ties with Russia ever since assuming office, ...
Turkish President Erdogan to reveal details of Khasoggi case
ISTANBUL, Turkey - In a sign of growing pressure on Saudi Arabia, Turkey said it will announce details of its ...
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55 killed in sectarian violence sparked at Nigerian market
KADUNA, Nigeria - A spat that broke out between porters in a Nigerian town sparked violent sectarian clashes between young ...
Officials: Deputy Chief of IS-Linked Group in Somalia Killed
NAIROBI - Somali intelligence officials say the deputy leader of an Islamic State-affiliated extremist group based in northern Somalia has ...
Zimbabwe opposition leader seeks dialogue on economic crisis
Zimbabwe's opposition leader on Tuesday called for the creation of a "national transitional authority" to deal with a worsening economic ...
Why the appointment of the NPA boss is so important
President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed a panel to help him appoint a new National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP). The ...
At least 52 die in Madagascar pre-trial detention in 2017: Amnesty
At least 52 people died in pre-trial detention in Madagascar last year as the country grapples with paralysis in its ...
New Tuberculosis Drug Cures 80% Of Patients
A new treatment for a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis can cure 80 percent of sufferers, according to a trial hailed ...
Hyatt Regency New Orleans
Expectations were high for this top of the line Hyatt product in "The Big Easy". The taxi rolled up to the rear of the ...