The British government ignored a United Nations-imposed deadline Friday to hand over control of the Chagos Islands in the central Indian Ocean to Mauritius, after what the global body says…
Italy granted permission to a ship carrying 82 Libyan migrants to dock Saturday in Lampedusa, Sicily, and allowed the passengers to disembark. The Ocean Viking rescued the migrants nearly a…
The World Health Organization is running low on funding it needs to fight a deadly outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Nations health agency…
Britain will deploy 250 troops to Mali to aid a United Nations peacekeeping mission protecting an unstable peace, the British government announced on Monday. The three-year deployment, to begin early…
British Airways said Saturday it has suspended flights to Cairo for seven days as a security precaution. The airline announced at 5:42 p.m. the stoppage of flights to the Egyptian…
Sudan’s military rulers on Wednesday suspended crucial talks with protesters on installing civilian rule, insisting that negotiations will resume only after demonstrators remove roadblocks put up in parts of Khartoum,…
More than 113 million people in 53 countries experienced “acute hunger” last year, with African nations disproportionally affected by food insecurity, the United Nations said. Yemen, Congo, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Syria…
An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 passenger jet has crashed on a flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi. The flight is believed to have had 149 passengers and eight crew members…
Shell won most of the concessions in an oil and gas exploration tender organized by the Egyptian natural gas holding company and the country’s General Petroleum Corporation. According to Daily…
France’s Total reported an offshore gas finding in South Africa while ExxonMobil separately reported two new discoveries offshore Guyana. “Total has opened a new world-class gas and oil play and…
