At least eight Nigerian soldiers have been killed in an Boko Haram attack on an army position in the restive northeast, local media reported on Friday. The deadly attack occurred in the heavily fortified northeastern Geidam town on Wednesday evening, causing multiple injuries to the troops,...

 Roger Stone, a longtime associate and close confidant of U.S. President Donald Trump, was arrested Friday in a pre-dawn FBI raid and indicted on seven counts brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Stone, 66, was taken into custody in Florida and is being charged with obstruction...

Greece’s parliament on Friday ratified a historic deal to end the 28-year dispute over its neighbor Macedonia’s name, paving the way for the Balkan country to join NATO and the EU. The vote passed by 153-146 in the 300-seat parliament, with one abstention. Under the deal, Macedonia will...

Muqtada al-Sadr’s Sairoon Bloc, which dominated Iraqi legislative polls last year, has submitted a bill to parliament that would, if passed, require all foreign military personnel to leave the country within one year. At a Friday press conference in Baghdad, Sairoon Chairman Sabah Assadi...

For the 44th consecutive week, Palestinians on Friday gathered along the Gaza-Israel buffer zone to take part in ongoing rallies against Israel’s decades-long occupation. During Friday’s demonstration, at least one Palestinian protester was killed by Israeli army gunfire, according to...

The U.S.-led coalition against Daesh terrorists on Friday said it was investigating possible civilian casualties in an alleged airstrike in Syria earlier this week. "CJTF-OIR takes all allegations of civilian casualties seriously and investigates each incident reported through any means,...

Surveys suggest French President Emmanuel Macron has stemmed a hemorrhage in support as he tours the country to take part in a "great national debate", part of his government's response to anger expressed by the "Yellow Vest" protest movement. The French president, who lost 15 points...

An Iraqi priest who saved a trove of religious manuscripts from the Islamic State group was ordained on Friday as the new Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Mosul. Najeeb Michaeel, 63, was inaugurated in a ceremony in Mosul's St. Paul Church attended by Catholic leaders from the region and the...

The number of people killed in an Ebola outbreak in eastern DR Congo has risen to 443, health authorities have announced, as new President Felix Tshisekedi began his first full day in office on Friday. The rising death toll -- up by more than 40 in the past ten days -- emphasises the...

Queen Elizabeth II has emphasised the need for Britons to come together to "seek out the common ground", in what is being viewed as an appeal to overcome bitter divisions over Brexit. Government ministers quickly interpreted the comments -- a rare foray for the 92-year-old monarch into the...

Sudan's main opposition leader Sadiq al-Mahdi on Friday called for President Omar al-Bashir to step down, throwing his support behind anti-government demonstrators after weeks of deadly protest. "This regime has to go immediately," Mahdi told hundreds of worshippers at a mosque in Omdurman,...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday Turkey expected a "security zone" to be created in Syria in a few months as the US withdraws militarily from the war-torn country. US President Donald Trump has proposed setting up a 30-kilometre safe zone along the border, but has not specified...

UN human rights chief on Friday condemned deadly violence rocking the Venezuela streets during the ongoing anti-government protests. “Any violent incident resulting in death or injury should be subject to an independent and impartial investigation to find out whether there was excessive use...

A UN official on extrajudicial executions will assess the “steps taken by governments to address and respond” to the killing of a Saudi journalist in Istanbul, and launch an international inquiry, the United Nations said on Friday.  In a statement, the UN’s Human Rights Office of the...

Japan is likely to hold a referendum in southern Okinawa region on Feb. 24 on whether to relocate a U.S. military base in the country, local media reported on Friday. According to The Japan Times, work is underway to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma from Ginowan to Henoko....

Germany is considering to recognize opposition leader Juan Guaido as “interim president”, if Venezuela would not hold free and fair elections, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman said on Friday. Speaking at a news conference in Berlin, Steffen Seibert said European Union member states were...

Clashes erupted on Friday between Palestinian protesters and Israeli forces in different parts of the occupied West Bank. The clashes, which occurred in the town of Al-Mughayyir east of Ramallah and Kafr Qaddum west of Nablus, saw Israeli forces use teargas, rubber bullets and live...

The latest developments in Venezuela's political crisis have dealt a severe blow to President Nicolas Maduro -- severe, but not fatal, for one key reason: the military still backs him. The National Bolivarian Armed Forces of Venezuela pointedly reiterated their loyalty to Maduro on...

A roundtable on solitude, an empathy conference, a meditation workshop: the annual gathering in Davos sometimes appears more like a group therapy session, nudging global elites towards happiness. "I am sorry. It is full," a hostess tells dozens of suit-clad business types who have been...

"I found a family here, I worked with the parish priest, I helped with mass, I went to school," said Nigerian Anthony Ehikwe, one of hundreds of migrants being expelled from Italy's second-largest migrant centre. "And now I do not even have the time to say goodbye." Italian authorities are...