UN to cut budget for peacekeeping missions
The General Assembly on Friday agreed to a significant cut in the budget for the U.N.’s far-flung peacekeeping missions, a reduction that the Trump administration fought hard to achieve though it...
View ArticleSeries of car bombs target Syrian capital Damascus
Three car bombs exploded in Damascus on Sunday, state media reported, and 20 were killed in one of the blasts, authorities said, the biggest such attack in the Syrian capital since a series of suicide...
View ArticleMorocco police fire tear gas as protesters defy govt ban
Police in the northern Moroccan city of Al-Hoceima on Thursday fired tear gas to disperse protesters and stop them marching in defiance of a government ban.
View ArticleExclusive: Libya PM says, 'We share a similar vision to prioritise a...
In an exclusive interview with FRANCE 24, Libya's Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj hailed a landmark deal struck Tuesday with rival military leader General Khalifa Haftar, but warned the divided country...
View ArticleExclusive 'We will deal with extremists with weapons' says Libya's Haftar
There will be no dialogue with extremist groups in Libya, the country's eastern commander General Khalifa Haftar vowed in an exclusive interview with FRANCE 24 on Wednesday, saying that only "military...
View ArticleMore deadly violence in Venezuela as crisis deepens ahead of vote
Clashes between Venezuelan security forces and demonstrators have killed five people during the latest opposition-led strike to protest an election on Sunday that critics contend will mark the end of...
View ArticleCandidate in Venezuela's Constitutent Assembly vote shot dead
Deadly violence erupted around a controversial vote held in Venezuela on Sunday, with a candidate to the all-powerful assembly being elected shot dead in his home and troops firing weapons to clear...
View ArticleKenyan election IT official killed days before national vote
An official crucial to running Kenya's presidential election next week has been found tortured and killed, the electoral commission chairman said Monday, as concerns grew that the East African nation's...
View ArticleProtesters demand probe into Kenyan election official’s murder
Protesters marched on the offices of Kenya's election commission on Tuesday, demanding a speedy investigation of the murder of a senior official that has raised fears over the legitimacy of next week's...
View ArticleVenezuela assembly delayed as claims of voter fraud swirl
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro postponed by 24 hours the launch of a powerful new assembly, in the face of opposition protests and blistering claims of fraud.
View ArticleUN denounces deadly ethnic violence in DR Congo's Kasai province
A UN report published on Friday detailed massacres and other abuses committed by all sides in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) conflict, with the UN warning of a further descent into ethnic...
View ArticleMaduro says 'terrorist' attack on Venezuela military base repelled
Soldiers battled for three hours Sunday morning against a small band of anti-government fighters who snuck onto a Venezuelan army base, apparently intent on fomenting an uprising, President Nicolas...
View ArticleSeveral killed in Kinshasa clashes
Congolese security forces killed at least 14 members of separatist sect Bundu dia Kongo (BDK) on Monday during clashes in the capital Kinshasa and southwestern city of Matadi in which at least one...
View ArticleVenezuela hunts rebels behind military base attack
Venezuela's military was on Monday hunting an ex-officer and a lieutenant who led uniformed rebels on a weekend raid to grab weapons from an army base, fueling fears the country's worsening crisis...
View ArticleUnited Nations slams Venezuela's use of 'excessive force' to suppress protests
The United Nations on Tuesday slammed Venezuela's use of "excessive force" against protesters, amid worsening tensions and fresh moves against the opposition.
View ArticleThousands in Russia's Chechnya protest for Burma's Rohingya Muslims
In an apparent bid to raise his profile as Russia's most influential Muslim, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov brought tens of thousands of people to the streets of the capital Grozny on Monday to protest...
View ArticleVenezuela's Maduro says ready for talks with opposition
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Tuesday his government was prepared to meet the opposition for talks, offering a glimpse of a breakthrough in a political standoff marked by months of deadly...
View ArticleZimbabwe ruling party accuses army chief of treason over warning to Mugabe
Zimbabwe’s ruling party accused the head of the armed forces of treason on Tuesday as armoured vehicles rolled towards the capital in apparent military pressure on President Robert Mugabe over a...
View ArticleOusted Caracas mayor flees to Spain
Ousted Caracas Mayor Antonio Ledezma arrived in Spain on Saturday, a day after he escaped from house arrest in Venezuela and slipped past security forces into Colombia.
View ArticleOusted Caracas mayor arrives in Spain after fleeing Venezuela
Ousted Caracas Mayor Antonio Ledezma pledge to spread his protest against Venezuela’s socialist government across the world on arriving in Spain Saturday, a day after he escaped from house arrest and...
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