Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces an uncertain political future after exit polls from Tuesday’s general election showed his bloc locked in a close contest with opposition forces led by

A suspected cyberattack has prompted the temporary shutdown of web-facing services at the United States Federal Election Commission (FEC) as a hacker attempts to breach the agency’s systems. The development

At least 128 people have been arrested in Barcelona, Spain, after a youth protest descended into looting, vandalism and violent clashes with police, leaving 15 officers injured and several businesses

Nigeria’s confirmed Ebola case has taken a new turn after the Swiss government said the infected woman was believed to have contracted the virus during a trip to Uganda, although

The United States has revoked the visa of Ricardo Roa, former head of Colombia’s state-owned oil company Ecopetrol, as Washington expands restrictions targeting officials and other prominent figures accused of

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has blamed insufficient international interest in African disease outbreaks for the absence of an approved vaccine against the Bundibugyo strain

The Soviet Union and Yugoslavia disappeared from the world map decades ago, but the political divisions, disputed borders and competing national ambitions left behind by their collapse continue to influence

JPMorgan Chase has moved a step closer to establishing a licensed banking operation in Nigeria after depositing ₦50 billion with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), a major regulatory requirement

Britain’s King Charles III is hosting Sultan Haitham bin Tarik of Oman for a state visit beginning Tuesday, marking the first time in 44 years that a reigning Sultan of

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have agreed with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to establish a framework for cooperation, marking a fresh diplomatic effort to rebuild relations

The United Kingdom will ban vape vending machines from October 29, alongside tighter restrictions on the sale and promotion of vaping and nicotine products, as the government steps up efforts

Pope Leo XIV has thanked the doctors and surgeons who treated him for lung cancer, jokingly asking whether they had left anything inside him after surgery, as he returned to

Former Senegalese President Macky Sall has withdrawn from the race to become the next United Nations secretary-general after a fresh Security Council poll exposed the difficulty facing candidates seeking support

Bank of America has been ordered to pay more than $1.2 billion in penalties after US regulators found serious failures in its efforts to prevent financial crime and comply with

US President Donald Trump has reversed plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, the former Army psychiatrist convicted of killing 13 people in a 2009 shooting at Fort

The United States Supreme Court will examine whether a Nigerian man who says he was forced to cook for members of a separatist group can be denied asylum on grounds

Pope Leo XIV has spent a calm first night in hospital after surgeons removed the lower lobe of his right lung in an operation that confirmed a diagnosis of lung

Thousands of Nigerian students seeking to study in the United Kingdom are facing growing uncertainty as universities pull back admission offers amid tighter immigration controls, rising visa refusals and fears

Pope Leo XIV will undergo surgery to remove a lung nodule detected during medical examinations, with the 71-year-old pontiff expected to spend about a week in hospital recovering, the Vatican

Abia State Governor Alex Otti has joined Vice-President Kashim Shettima in Ethiopia for a high-level exchange aimed at strengthening Nigeria’s response to child malnutrition, with the Nigerian delegation studying the