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Monrovia: Former Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has won the 2017 Mo Ibrahim award, designed to improve the quality of African political...

New York: The executive director of Oxfam International said on Sunday she was heartbroken by a sexual misconduct scandal in Haiti involving aid workers...

London: Britain’s Prince Harry and his fiancee Meghan Markle will celebrate their wedding day with members of the public by taking a carriage ride through...

Guasipati (Venezuela): Soldiers clashed with illegal miners in southern Venezuela on the weekend, killing 18 people in a region notorious for violence and...

Colombo: Former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa called on Monday for parliament to be dissolved and fresh elections to be held after a party backed...

Liuyang: From the concrete bunkers carved into the hillside, where workers gingerly handle piles of explosive black powder, to the shopfronts selling...

Beijing: China will banish the "ghosts" of poverty, Chinese President Xi Jinping told villagers in a poor southwestern part of the country during...

London: All flights to and from London's City Airport were cancelled on Monday after an unexploded World War Two bomb was discovered in the River Thames...

Kuwait: Rebuilding Iraq after three years of war with IS will cost more than $88 billion, with housing a particularly urgent priority, Iraqi officials told...

Seoul: The United States may be looking more favourably at diplomatic engagement with North Korea, possibly holding dialogue, as South Korea pushes forward...