South African President Jacob Zuma was discharged from hospital on Sunday after undergoing a scheduled procedure the previous day to remove gallstones, the presidency said. “Doctors ar... Read more
A Libyan war plane on Sunday attacked and sank a vessel near the eastern city of Benghazi, a spokesman for the air force allied to the country’s internationally recognized government... Read more
Chinese regulations have banned foreigners from all missionary activity including distributing religious propaganda materials. (Credit: Reuters) A Chinese official said on Thursday that a gr... Read more
Remarkable new images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft are drastically rewriting scientists’ understanding of Pluto and its large moon Charon and bolstering the case for the exploration o... Read more
Thailand has enacted a new anti-corruption law that extends a maximum penalty of capital punishment to foreigners. Previous legislation provided various punishments, including a possible dea... Read more
Rwandan lawmakers backed a motion on Tuesday to let President Paul Kagame run for a third term in office, paving the way for a referendum to amend the constitution. A similar move by the pre... Read more
Infamous drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has escaped — for the second time in his life — from a maximum security prison in Mexico. Guzman, the former top boss of the powerful... Read more
A man dressed in a woman’s burqa blew himself up in the main market in Chad’s capital N’Djamena early on Saturday, killing 14 people and injuring 74, a police spokesman sai... Read more
David Sweat, the surviving inmate who escaped from a New York prison, was reportedly shot and taken into custody on Sunday. The development was reported by The New York Times, NBC News and C... Read more
After Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling, there’s no longer any doubt: Barack Obama is one of the most consequential presidents in American history — and he will be a particularly t... Read more
