Caracas and other parts of crisis-wracked Venezuela were hit by a massive power cut on Monday that the government blamed on an "electromagnetic attack." The lights went out in most of Caracas at 4:41 pm (2041 GMT) while people in other parts of the country took to social media to report the...

Democratic Republic of Congo's health minister, Oly Ilunga, resigned Monday in protest at the presidency's announcement last week that it would take control of the response to the Ebola outbreak instead of his team. In a resignation letter posted on his Twitter account, Ilunga decried...

The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog, Yukiya Amano, has died after suffering poor health for some time, the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Monday, as international tensions run high over Iran's nuclear activities. The longtime Japanese diplomat, who was 72, held the IAEA's top...

Britain is to send 250 troops to the West African nation of Mali next year as part of a United Nations peacekeeping operation, the defense ministry said Monday. "In one of the world’s poorest and most fragile regions it is right that we support some of world's most vulnerable people and...