Kenya will delay re-opening its border with Somalia because of a wave of attacks it blames on al Qaeda-linked militants. Kenya will delay re-opening its border with Somalia because of a wave of attacks it blames on al Qaeda-linked militants. In May, the two governments arrange
Rescuers are searching for a boat carrying at least 200 African migrants who went missing more than a week ago waters off the Canary Islands. The aid group Walking Borders says the fishing boat sailed from Kafountine, a coastal town in southern Senegal that is roughly 1,700km (1,057 mil
Six people including three children have been killed in a kindergarten stabbing in China's south-eastern Guangdong province. Police said they have arrested a 25-year-old man with the surname Wu in Lianjiang town. The other victims are a teacher and two parents, AFP reporte
Fire outbreak from a room in a retirement in the Italian city of Milan has killed six people while 81 others haven been taken to hospital. The alarm was raised in the early hours of Friday at the Casa dei Coniugi home for the elderly. The blaze was quickly contained but Milan
Ukraine's interior minister says that a Russian rocket has hit a residential building in the city of Lviv killing at least four people. Ihor Klymenko added another 32 people were injured in what the mayor of Lviv said was "one of the biggest attacks" on the city's civi
Local officials say that a suspected nitrate oxide gas leakage in South Africa has killed 16 people. The victims - including women and children - died from gas inhalation at an informal settlement in Boksburg, east of Johannesburg. Wednesday's leak has been linked to illeg
A missile strike at a carpark of a residential building in Ukraine's Kharkiv region has left at least 43 people including 12 children injured. What is believed to be a Russian Iskander missile landed in the town of Pervomaisky at about 13:30 local time. Ukrainian Prosecuto
Weeks after the deadly train crash that killed 293 people in India, more than 50 bodies are yet to be claimed. The accident took place in June in the eastern state of Odisha when a passenger train hit a stationary goods train and derailed on to an adjacent track. Some of the o
In response to rocket fire from Palestinian militants, Israel has carried out air strikes on Gaza as they complete withdrawal of forces from Jenin in the occupied West Bank. It follows a major two-day operation inside the city's refugee camp which killed 12 Palestinians. A
Reports from Tel Aviv suggest seven people were hurt, including a woman who sustained critical injuries in a car ramming attack. The attack took place in a well-off neighborhood in northern Tel Aviv. The assailant - who was shot dead - was identified as a 23-year-old from Hebr