Africa
At least three Egyptian soldiers have been killed and five others wounded in a roadside bomb attack on their vehicle in Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula. Medical sources, requesting anonymity, said the remote-controlled improvised explosive device ...
At least six UN workers have been killed in a car bomb explosion in Somalia’s northeastern semi-autonomous region of Puntland. The bombing occurred as a minibus was entering the UN office in the city of ...
At least three people, including security forces, have been killed in a bomb attack that targeted a police station in southern Afghanistan, sources say. Medical sources released the death toll on Monday after an individual ...
A smuggler’s boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya’s coast as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean’s deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the European Union Sunday to finally ...
A video purportedly made by Daesh and posted on social media sites on Sunday appeared to show militants shooting and beheading about 30 Ethiopian Christians in Libya. The video, in which militants call Christians « crusaders » ...
Gunfire on the streets of the town of Reynosa in Mexico near the US border has left at least three people dead. Security forces announced on Friday that “three armed civilians are reported dead,” adding, ...
The fear among some foreigners and South Africans that anti-immigrant attacks will escalate reached such a peak Thursday that foreigners sought refuge in camps and a police station, a peace march was planned and the ...
A suicide bomber attacked a UN barracks in northern Mali on Wednesday, the United Nations said, killing three civilians and wounding 16 people, including several peacekeepers. The militant was attempting to drive into a camp ...
Up to 400 illegal migrants died after their vessel capsized off the Libyan coast on Sunday, said survivors who were brought to Italy, where tension is mounting over a surge in boat arrivals from North ...
Protesters in several U.S. cities blocked highways and swarmed police precincts, leading to at least two dozen arrests in demonstrations touched off by fresh cases of police violence against unarmed black men. About 250 activists ...
