Tunisian authorities say they arrested at least 240 youths as violent clashes between police and protesters broke out. Riots and violent clashes between Tunisian police and protesters broke out on Sunday in the capital Tunis and several other cities for the second
At least 46 civilians killed by suspected ADF fighters in Irumu territory, according to a regional official. At least 46 civilians are reported to have been killed in an attack by suspected rebel fighters on a village in the eastern Democratic Republic
A highly infectious mutation of the novel coronavirus first recorded in the United Kingdom last month has spread to dozens of countries, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since being reported to the WHO on December 14, the UK-identified variant VOC
Deadly violence erupts in Haboubi Square in southern Nasiriya city that began over the arrest of activists in Dhi Qar province. A policeman has been killed and dozens of people injured in clashes between security forces and anti-government protesters in southern Iraq.
Sixteen hospitalised as a total of 55 boat passengers are brought back to land after being trapped for hours in rough waters, officials say. Dozens of Syrian refugees have been brought back to land by Albanian authorities after being stranded for hours
Survivors say the vessel headed to the regional capital Goma was carrying more than 100 people. At least two children and one woman drowned after a passenger boat sank on Lake Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a local
BREAKING Politicians and activists detained in early morning sweep in biggest crackdown yet under national security law. Dozens of Hong Kong opposition politicians and activists were arrested on Wednesday morning under the territory’s national security law, according to political parties and a
At least 20 people were shot and two people were murdered during Chicago’s first weekend of 2021, as the police department, its superintendent and former brass reflect on a violent, tumultuous year in policing in the Illinois city and across America. There
Interior Minister Alkache Alhada says the attack took place in the villages of Tchombangou and Zaroumdareye, near the border with Mali. Gunmen have killed dozens of civilians and wounded several more in attacks on two villages in western Niger, near the border
Farmers had gone to the fields in eastern Beni when they were attacked on New Year’s Eve, an official says. At least 25 people were killed in an attack on New Year’s Eve by rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s