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Cuban singer and cabaret diva Juana Bacallao has died

A court in Cyprus has ordered two men to remain in police custody for six days on suspicion of people smuggling

Iraq's intelligence department says it has captured two members of the Islamic State group in an operation outside the country and brought them home

Polls suggest South Africa faces a historic turning point in a national election in May

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has highlighted the achievements of his ruling African National Congress, which has ruled the country for all of its 30 years of democracy, as it heads into a tight race in May’s election

While the fashion industry discusses size diversity from time to time, there was little evidence of real evolution on the Milan runway this season. On Saturday, Paloma Elsasser walked Ferragamo in a satin plunge-neck cocktail dress, and Dolce&Gabbana included models of normal size. But the thinness of some models was a topic of pre-show chatter. Ashley Graham, who sat in the front row of Dolce&Gabbana, as recently as the September shows, lamented how often she is the only larger model on runways. Читать дальше...

A court in Tunisia has sentenced former president Moncef Marzouki to eight years in prison in absentia as part of the country’s crackdown on opponents of President Kais Saied

The U.K.’s governing Conservative Party suspended ties with one if its lawmakers

Authorities in the eastern Caribbean say they are trying to locate two people believed to be U.S. citizens who were aboard a yacht hijacked by three escaped prisoners from Grenada

Officials say six members of a religious congregation in Haiti and a teacher have been kidnapped while gathered in front of a school in the capital

West Africa's ECOWAS bloc says it's lifting sanctions imposed on Niger over last year’s coup in a new push for dialogue

French President Emmanuel Macron has been greeted with boos and whistles at the opening of the Paris Agricultural Fair by angry farmers who blame him for not doing enough to support them

The body of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been handed over to his mother, Navalny's aide says

Heads of state across West Africa are meeting on Saturday to discuss the region’s challenges and to call again on three junta-led nations to rescind their decision to quit the regional bloc and a plan to review imposed sanctions to reverse the coup in ...

Police in Vienna say they have launched a criminal investigation after three women were found dead in a brothel

The death toll in a fire that engulfed an apartment block in the Spanish city of Valencia has risen to 10 after forensic police found one more body inside the charred building Saturday

Brazil’s president has alleged that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians

Britain's Ministry of Defense says a World War II-era bomb whose discovery prompted one of the largest peacetime evacuations in British history has been detonated at sea

An Australian tourist has gone missing in Zimbabwe’s Victoria Falls National Park, home to one of the world’s natural wonders, the country’s parks spokesman said

The widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has accused President Vladimir Putin of mocking Christianity by trying to force his mother to agree to a secret funeral after his death in a penal colony

The U.S. military says an attack by Yemeni Houthi rebels on a Belize-flagged ship earlier this month caused a significant oil leak

A farm tractor pulling a wagon loaded with Hindu devotees has overturned and fallen into a pond in northern India, killing at least 15 people, including seven children

Pope Francis has canceled an audience scheduled as a precaution after suffering a mild flu, the Vatican press office said in a short statement, without adding details

Ever since Myanmar's military announced it is implementing conscription to fill its ranks, Thwel sees very few options

Chip giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has opened in an official ceremony its first semiconductor plant in Japan as part of its ongoing global expansion