WORLD

Amnesty International UK is urging US authorities to immediately halt any deportation proceedings against Sadat, a Ghanaian homosexual who fears for his personal safety on his return to Ghana. Sadat reportedly fled his home in November…
Read More...

Dozens of civilians, including children, have been killed in an Afghan air attack on a gathering at a religious school in the northern province of Kunduz, eyewitnesses and officials said. A religious school in the Dasht-e-Achin district of…
Read More...

A Chinese father has been reunited with his daughter after looking for her for 24 years. Wang Mingqing's tireless search included becoming a taxi driver in Chengdu city, in the hope he might one day pick her up as a passenger. His…
Read More...

Two shootings in London in the space of an hour have left a 17-year-old girl dead and a boy, 16, critically ill. The teenage girl was found with a bullet wound in Tottenham on Monday night and pronounced dead at the scene. The boy had…
Read More...

Botswana has inaugurated Mokgweetsi Masisi as its fifth president, in a ceremony designed to highlight a smooth transition of power in one of Africa’s strongest democracies. The ex-vice president took over on Sunday from Ian Khama, who…
Read More...

Struggle stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has passed away. The apartheid icon has been ill for a number of years and was most recently admitted to Milpark Hospital due to an infection affecting her kidneys. The last time the…
Read More...

Ethiopia’s new prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, has pledged his readiness to resolve disputes with neighbour Eritrea. Speaking on state television after his swearing-in ceremony, Mr Ahmed called for an end to “years of misunderstandings”. “I…
Read More...

China’s defunct Tiangong-1 space lab mostly broke up on re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere above the South Pacific, Chinese and US reports say. It re-entered the atmosphere around 00:15 GMT on Monday, China’s Manned Space Engineering…
Read More...

Mokgweetsi Masisi is Botswana's new president after he was inaugurated on Sunday in the country's capital, Gaborone. Masisi is the southern African nation's fifth leader and takes over from former president Seretse Khama Ian Khama…
Read More...

South Korea has deployed a naval vessel from its regional anti-piracy effort to help in the search after a fishing boat was hijacked by pirates off Ghana, South Korea’s foreign ministry said on Saturday. The ministry said the fishing…
Read More...