The American dentist who killed Cecil the lion was a "foreign poacher" who paid for an illegal hunt and he should be extradited to Zimbabwe to face justice, environment minister Oppah Muchinguri said on Friday. In Harare's first official comments since Cecil's killing grabbed...

At least 13 suspected Boko Haram militants and three civilians were killed in separate attacks over the weekend after the insurgents raided several remote localities around Lake Chad, Chadian security sources said on Monday. The insurgents are also suspected of kidnapping some 30...

The Somali militant Islamist group al Shabaab attacked a Mogadishu hotel on Sunday, driving a car packed with explosives through the hotel gate and killing at least 13 people, a first responder and the rebel group said. A Reuters witness said blood and pieces of flesh were...

Two people were killed and seven others wounded after a gunman opened fire inside a cinema in Louisiana before taking his own life Thursday night, according to U.S. media reports. Police said the shooter was a 58-year-old white male, but did not release any further details about his identity....

An Australian nurse who claims he was forced to aid Daesh in Syria is expected to be arrested by Australian police following his return Friday. Adam Brookman, a Melbourne resident and father-of-five, reportedly travelled to Syria in early 2014 to offer his medic skills to aid people in the...

What may be the world's oldest fragments of the Koran have been found by the University of Birmingham. Radiocarbon dating found the manuscript to be at least 1,370 years old, making it among the earliest in existence. The pages of the Muslim holy text had remained unrecognised in the...

An Austrian court sentenced a Chechen to five years in jail on terror charges after he traveled to Syria in 2013, the latest and one of the toughest verdicts in a string of Islamic State-related cases in Austria. The 30-year-old Chechen, identified as Magomed Z., was convicted of...

Three Italian ships rescued 414 migrants from four boats in the Mediterranean sea on Tuesday, Italy's coast guard said, with four newborns and one young child among those saved. About 150,000 migrants, many fleeing poverty and war in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, came...

Iran and world powers have reached a historic deal under which Tehran will curb its nuclear program in exchange for the easing of economic sanctions, NBC News confirmed early Tuesday. Tehran has been negotiating with the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China for years, with diplomats...

  Thousands turned out to pay respects Friday on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre as 136 more coffins of identified victims were brought to a memorial centre to be buried the next day. Bosnian soldiers in battlefield uniforms, survivors of the...

The French government rejected an aslyum request from Wikileaks' Julian Assange on Friday (Jul 3), saying he did not face "immediate danger". "France has received the letter from Mr. Assange. An in-depth review shows that in view of the legal and material elements of Mr Assange's situation,...

German authorities have released Al Jazeera journalist Ahmed Mansour, who had been detained at Berlin airport at the request of the Egyptian government. Accompanied by his lawyers, Mansour greeted his supporters after his release on Monday, and thanked the German court for its decision. "I...

  A Taliban suicide bomber and several gunmen attacked the Afghan parliament on Monday, shattering windows and forcing lawmakers to flee, as a second district in two days fell to the Islamist group in the north. Violence has spiraled in Afghanistan since the departure of most...

Gunmen from the Somali Islamist group al-Shabab killed at least eight officers in a raid on a police station near the capital, police and the militants said on Saturday. "Al-Shabab killed eight of my colleagues and took three of our cars," Major Abdikadir Hussein, a police officer, told...

The United States plans to store heavy military equipment in the Baltics and Eastern European nations to reassure allies made uneasy by Russian intervention in Ukraine, and to deter further aggression, a senior U.S. official said on Saturday. "We will pre-position significant equipment," the...

Four Westerners who posed naked on Malaysia's highest peak were Friday sentenced to three days in jail and fined for obscene behavior in a public place, news reports said. The four were among 10 foreigners who stripped naked and took photos on Mount Kinabalu on May 30. A local official has said...

At least 19 Islamist militants and seven Pakistani soldiers were killed in a fierce gun battle early on Monday near Dattakhel, a town close to the Afghan border, military officials and militants said. According to security officials, seven Pakistani soldiers were killed when one of the...

Leaders from the Group of Seven (G7) industrial nations meet on Sunday in the Bavarian Alps for a summit overshadowed by Greece's debt crisis and ongoing violence in Ukraine. Host Angela Merkel is hoping to secure commitments from her G7 guests to tackle global warming to build momentum in...

The death toll from a Chinese cruise ship which capsized during a storm in the Yangtze River jumped to 396 on Saturday, leaving fewer than 50 still missing, as the boat operator apologized and said it would cooperate with investigations. Only 14 survivors, one of them the captain, have been...

An Austin, Texas man was sentenced on Friday to almost seven years in prison for attempting to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State militant group. Michael Wolfe, 24, was sentenced to 82 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks in Austin, the U.S. Justice Department...