INTERNATIONAL

European Union agreed to put Ukraine on a path towards EU membership, acting with uncharacteristic speed and unity to pull the war-torn country further away from Russia’s influence and bind...

Heavy fighting was on Thursday reported in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between the army and M23 rebels, who are waging their "most sustained offensive" since a 2012-2013 insurrection...

A travel ban on top U.S. officials including President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and CIA head William Burns, will be implemented, Moscow announced Saturday. The list of...

More than 80 cases of monkeypox have been confirmed in at least 12 countries according to World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO has said another 50 suspected cases are being...

One of the last remaining fugitives of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Pheneas Munyarugarama, has been confirmed dead and the case against him closed -UN war crimes prosecutor Serge Brammertz said....

Former Somali leader Hassan Sheikh Mohamud won the presidency again in voting by parliamentarians on Sunday in an airport hangar protected by blast walls from Islamist insurgents whom he must...

Pope Francis on Tuesday said he has requested a meeting in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the Ukraine war but has heard nothing back. The 85-year-old pontiff reportedly...

Russian forces have seized the city of Kreminna in eastern Ukraine and Ukrainian troops have withdrawn from the city, the regional governor has said. Kreminna, which had a population of...

The death toll from floods that have battered South Africa's east coast has risen to 443, including a rescuer, a regional official said on Sunday, as dozens more are still...

Court in Burkina Faso has sentenced former president Blaise Compaore to life imprisonment for complicity in the 1987 murder of his predecessor Thomas Sankara in a coup, a military tribunal...