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Burkina Faso: Nearly 500 men and boys have been rescued from a building in the northern city of Kaduna, where the detainees were allegedly sexually abused...

Toronto: Hundreds of thousands of people have joined climate strike marches across Canada, with almost 100 events planned in cities and towns. Protesters...

Athens: A baby and a toddler were among seven people who died when a boat carrying migrants and refugeessank in the eastern Aegean Sea, the Greek coastguard...

Caracas: The United Nations Human Rights Council agreed on Friday to set up an international fact-finding mission to document violations in Venezuela,...

Port-au-Prince: Haitian police used tear gas and live ammunition on Friday to disperse protesters in the capital, witnesses said, as anger over the economic...

Kabul: Polls have opened in Afghanistan's presidential election amid fears of violence following threats by the Taliban to disrupt the election...

Washington: India's Moon rover Vikram, which lost contact moments before it was to touch down on the lunar surface earlier this month, had a "hard...

Harare: Independent Zimbabwe’s first leader Robert Mugabe will be buried at his rural home over the weekend, ending a tug of war between the government...

Los Angeles: Astronomers have spotted three giant black holes within a titanic collision of three galaxies, according to a release of NASA's Jet...

Paris: Jacques Chirac, the former French president who championed Europe, and whose later years were blighted by corruption scandals, has died aged...