A South African judge barred Sudan’s indicted president from leaving the country on Sunday, in a deepening rift between Africa and the West over what Pretoria called anti-poor country... Read more
Former Chicago Police Department officers Jerome Finnigan (left) and Timothy McDermott (right) pose with an unidentified suspect. (Photo obtained by The Chicago Sun-Times from a court filing... Read more
– A court sentenced 11 men to death on Tuesday for their part in Egypt’s worst violence at a soccer stadium, in which more than 70 fans were killed in 2012. Many of the dead were... Read more
Gambia’s eccentric president, Yahyah Jammeh, has abruptly expelled the European Union’s top diplomat to his country. The marching orders given to Agnes Guillard, the EU’s charge d’affaires,... Read more
Mali’s Tuareg-led rebels have agreed to deals for a local ceasefire and more political guarantees as a step toward a U.N.-brokered peace agreement to end decades of uprisings in the no... Read more
A lion leapt through a open car window and mauled to death an American tourist at a privately-run game park just outside Johannesburg on Monday, a park official said. “There was a car... Read more
The government of Mauritius on Monday designated Ameenah Gurib-Fakim as the Indian Ocean island nation’s new president, making her the first woman to hold the ceremonial position. The... Read more
Yangtze ferry disaster: Chinese ferry sinks with 458 on board; passengers heard calling for help from inside capsized hull A passenger ship carrying 458 people, mainly elderly Chinese touris... Read more
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry broke his right leg in an accident while cycling in the Alps near Scionzier, France, on Sunday and is returning to the United States, his spokesman said. H... Read more
The corpses of 17 migrants were brought ashore in Sicily aboard an Italian naval vessel on Sunday along with 454 survivors as efforts intensified to rescue people fleeing war and poverty in... Read more
