Leaders of the so-called G5 Sahel – Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger – are attending the two-day summit in the Chadian capital N'Djamena, with French President Emmanuel Macron joining via videolink. The meeting comes a year after France boosted its Sahel deployment,...

Opposition to Myanmar's new military regime intensified on Saturday as spontaneous neighbourhood watch groups mobilised to thwart arrests of anti-coup activists and the UN demanded the release of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The army takeover that brought a decade-old democracy to an end...

Lawyers for Donald Trump take the Senate floor Friday to rebut the Democratic-led impeachment of the former president for inciting insurrection, with Republican lawmakers then widely expected to vote to acquit. Democratic impeachment managers rested their case Thursday after two days of...

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday said his country had beaten back a foreign "blitzkrieg" following months of historic rallies last year against the strongman's decades-long rule. "The blitzkrieg did not succeed, we held on to our country," Lukashenko said in a speech at...