Suspected rebels from the Allied Democratic Forces have killed at least 17 people in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo - the second mass killings in less than a week. They also set fire to buildings during the dawn raid on Kirindera in North Kivu province. On Wednesday,
South Africans continue to pay tribute to rapper Costa Titch who died over the weekend after collapsing while performing at a music festival in Johannesburg. The musician, real name Constantinos Tsobanoglou, was 28. His family confirmed the death in an Instagram post. Footage
Saudi Arabia and Iran are set to resume diplomatic relations after a long rift between the two Middle Eastern nations. After years of diplomatic silence, Iran and Saudi Arabia have agreed to restore diplomatic relations. Considering previous attempts at reconciliation have bee
Ukraine and Russia have reported inflicting huge losses as the battle for Bakhmut rages on. Moscow has been trying to take the eastern Ukrainian city for months in a grinding war of attrition. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian forces had suffered more than 1,
UNICEF warns that those hardest-hit by a cholera epidemic in eastern and southern Africa are the poor, and says young children are especially at risk. Southern Africa's deadly cholera outbreak has spread to eleven countries. Almost 68,000 cases have been reported, including 1,790 de
Reports from the Mexican border city of Matamoros say a splinter group of the Gulf Cartel, called the Scorpions Group, has apologised for kidnapping four US citizens last week, killing two of them, and has turned over the men it says are responsible. On their front pages, many of Mexico
Georgia’s parliament votes to drop a controversial bill after a week during which security forces detained some 50 protestors and broke up protests against a "foreign agents" law, injuring several people. Demonstrators feared the legislation would move the former Soviet republic t
A number of people were killed and injured in a shooting at a Jehovah's Witness meeting hall in Germany's northern Hamburg city late on Thursday. Police say the gunman acted alone, and is thought to be dead. It is unclear if the attacker is among the six or seven fatalities repo
A spokesman for the army has confirmed Islamist militants killed at least 35 people in an attack on a village in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The attack in the village of Mukondi, an area beset with rebel activity, was in retaliation for a military crackdown in the area.&nb
Citizens of Oklahoma on Tuesday night overwhelmingly voted down a measure that would have legalized recreational marijuana, which the Catholic bishops of the state had urged voters to reject because of the physical and spiritual harms of drug use. State Question 820, which would have le