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ISIS militants. (Photo: AFP/Representational)

ISIS calls on followers to attack Middle East, Asia, West, Russia during Ramadan

The audio clip was distributed on Monday on ISIS's channel on Telegram, an encrypted messaging application.

13 Jun 2017 8:50 AM

As this year's fasting month began, a media-oriented preacher went round cafes, open during the day, to record footage of clients and shames them in a move that was heavily criticised on social networks. (Photo: AFP)

Tunisians protest for right to eat, drink during daylight in Ramadan

Demonstrators also protested against the arrest of people who were not fasting.

12 Jun 2017 11:22 AM

It is unclear what role the younger Gaddafi could play in Libya, where a complex array of armed groups and competing governments are vying for control.

Gaddafi ‘heir’ sees light of the day

Saif al-Islam freed by armed group under amnesty law.

12 Jun 2017 2:48 AM

Thousands of people have been streaming into Baidoa and other Somali cities in search of food and support, overwhelming local and international aid agencies. (Photo: Representational/AP)

14 civilians killed as soldiers clash over food aid in Somalia

Somalia is 1 of 4 countries singled out by the United Nations in a $4.4 billion aid appeal to avert catastrophic hunger and famine.

09 Jun 2017 8:01 PM

United Nations. (Photo: Representational)

3 UN peacekeepers killed in attack northern Mali

The attack is just the latest to target the 12,000-strong force in the west African nation.

09 Jun 2017 4:51 PM

A car is washed over by a huge wave that slammed into the promenade during heavy storms in the Sea Point neighborhood of Cape Town, South Africa. (Photo: AP)

8 dead as storm brings rain to drought-hit Cape Town

Cape Town workers said they had taken measures to protect some poor residents, who live in sprawling neighbourhoods of makeshift homes.

07 Jun 2017 9:18 PM

South African President Jacob Zuma. (Photo: File/AFP)

South African President Jacob Zuma under fire for leaked documents

More than 100,000 leaked documents and emails that showed improper dealings in lucrative government contracts by business friends of Zuma.

03 Jun 2017 2:39 PM

Museum to reflect S. African-Indian history

Centre to have a library, archive for students to learn about Indian culture.

03 Jun 2017 2:58 AM

The two suicide attackers were also killed in the blasts in Bourvare, a village near the Nigerian border. (Photo: PTI/Representational)

2 suicide attacks in Cameroon kill 7, injure many

Regional Governor Midjiyawa Bakari held the militant group Boko Haram responsible for the attack.

02 Jun 2017 8:38 PM

The centre will also have a library and archive for students to learn about Indian culture which has survived and adapted to local circumstances more than 156 years later among the 1.4 million South Africans of Indian-origin. (Photo: File)

South African living museum to reflect Mahatma Gandhi’s contribution, Indian history

The 1860 Heritage Centre is the culmination of many years of negotiation between the local Indian community and government authorities.

02 Jun 2017 3:12 PM

Tanzania: 2 morgue workers cut open corpse, steal drugs hidden in stomach

The workers said they sold the drugs to an unidentified businessman, who in turn sold the merchandise to a suspected drug trafficker.

28 May 2017 11:31 AM

Egypt army soldiers. (Photo: AP/Representational)

Egypt: 28 killed, 22 wounded after gunmen attack bus with Christians

The attack happened on Friday while the bus was travelling on the road to the St Samuel Monastery in the Minya governorate.

26 May 2017 4:15 PM

Kenyan police have warned of increased Islamist activity in the restive northeast, close to the border with Somalia (Photo: AFP)

Shabaab Islamists kill 5 Kenyan police in third bombing

The blast flipped over the green police pickup and tore its rear end off.

25 May 2017 7:31 PM

Chibok school girls recently freed from Nigeria Extremist captivity in Abuja, Nigeria. One of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014 and who had the opportunity to be released on Saturday chose to stay with her husband, the Nigerian president's spokesperson said. (Photo: AP)

Nigeria: Boko Haram releases video of armed girl pledging loyalty to group

When asked why she does not want to go home, Maida said her family lived in the town of unbelief and they should accept Islam.

14 May 2017 8:25 AM

19 people killed in bus accident in Kenya

The accident comes just weeks after another collision killed dozens in Kenya, which has notoriously dangerous roads.

13 May 2017 4:22 PM

Former Finnish President Mauno Koivisto in Helsinki. Finland's last Cold War president Koivisto who led the Nordic nation out of the shadow of its huge neighbor, the Soviet Union, into the European Union, died. (Photo: AP)

Finland's former leftist President Mauno Koivisto dies at 93

Mauno Koivisto, born in 1923 to a ship's carpenter became the first leftist and ninth president of Finland in 1982.

13 May 2017 1:28 PM

Chibok schoolgirls, recently freed from Nigeria extremist captivity, are photographed in Abuja, Nigeria. (Photo: AP)

Nigeria: Boko Haram releases video of purported Chibok girl holding gun

Last week, 82 schoolgirls who were kidnapped 3-years-ago, were released after negotiations between the terrorist group and the government.

13 May 2017 12:52 PM

Indian Ship INS Mumbai (Photo: ANI Twitter)

India’s INS Mumbai, INS Aditya interact with Egyptian navy; will depart today

This visit would go a long way in enhancing co-operation and understanding between the two countries.

08 May 2017 11:14 AM

Tagore visited Egypt as a young adolescent in 1878 and later as a famous poet-philosopher in 1926, when he met King Fouad and interacted with scholars in Alexandria and Cairo. (Photo: AFP)

Egypt: India to hold cultural fest to celebrate Tagore’s 156th birth anniversary

Rabindranath Tagore was the first non-European to win this prestigious award, in recognition for his collection of poems, 'Gitanjali'.

07 May 2017 2:16 PM

Oyo state police spokesman Adekunle Ajisebutu said on Saturday that 11 others were injured in the crash. (Photo: Representational/AP)

2 buses catch fire on Nigerian highway after collision, 26 dead

Police said the 2 buses were trying to overtake other vehicles on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and ended up striking each other.

07 May 2017 9:05 AM

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