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Kibera: A global conference on poverty is to take place in Africa’s largest slum in an effort to make sure the poorest get a voice. The inaugural World...

London: Boris Johnson has been formally referred for potential investigation into whether he committed the criminal offence of misconduct in public office,...

Brussels: The act of thumbing a lift has been in and out of favour over the years, romanticised in great works of literature chronicling the travails of...

Washington: Kurt Volker, the US special envoy for Ukraine, has resigned, according to a US official, becoming the first casualty in the rapidly growing...

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...