A convoy of fleeing civilians, including foreign nationals, was ambushed by suspected Islamist insurgents in a northern Mozambique town, officials have said...
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At least 50 people have been killed across Myanmar after security forces opened fire on protesters, according to local media reports. The deadly tally is said...
In the Ethiopian city of Adigrat, the general hospital may be the only thing that actually works in a community which now lacks all government-run services...
EU leaders have told AstraZeneca that it must “catch up” on vaccine deliveries in Europe before it is allowed to export jabs to other countries...
Efforts have resumed to free the container ship blocking the Suez Canal, as fears it could take “weeks” force trapped boats to consider turning...
North Korea has fired an unidentified projectile off the east coast into the sea, South Korea says. Earlier, Japan said Pyongyang might have fired a ballistic...
AstraZeneca has hit back after claims of a stockpile of 29 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine at a factory near Rome, saying the jabs are for the EU and...
Benjamin Netanyahu has failed to secure a majority in Israel’s elections, leaving his future as prime minister uncertain. Mr Netanyahu fell short of the...
For the past five months the head of the Ethiopian government has adamantly denied the existence of Eritrean troops, together with their military hardware, in...
Four Chinese officials will be sanctioned by the UK over “appalling violations” of human rights against Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang province, the...
Four Kenyan policemen will stand trial for murder after a judge ruled they have a case to answer in the death of British aristocrat Alex Monson. The policemen...
Hundreds of people have been rescued and around 18,000 evacuated as record rain brought more extreme flooding to Australia’s east coast. Emergency...
We’d been asked into the clinic of a camp called Al Hol to meet a young woman. Seventeen years old, we were told, and here because she’d been shot...
A strong earthquake has hit areas of Japan devastated by the tsunami 10 years ago, that saw thousands lose their lives. The quake hit the coast about 220 miles...
The Tsehaye Elementary School in Shire, Ethiopia, offers some sort of sanctuary, a place of refuge for people on the run. But there is not much here to keep...
She had just come to collect her things. It was January 2020. Vera Pekhteleva, a 23-year-old university student, had told her boyfriend their...
