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Oscar Pistorius’s lawyers on Tuesday fought to keep him from returning to jail as state prosecutors argued for a murder conviction in a combative appeal hearing held just two weeks after he

Journalists in Togo on Tuesday slammed a new provision passed by parliament which threatens imprisonment for anyone found guilty of flouting the country’s media regulations. Eight media organisations said the law, passed

A rare tropical cyclone has slammed into Yemen, triggering heavy flooding and causing “enormous” damage in a region of the war-racked country dominated by Al-Qaeda, a senior official said Tuesday. Packing winds

Turkey launched new air strikes on Kurdish rebels and rounded up rivals of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday, an early hint of the hardline tactics his party intends to pursue after

German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned that fighting could break out in the Balkans, along the main route of migrants trying to reach Europe, if Germany closed its border with Austria, in remarks

US Secretary of State John Kerry visited ex-Soviet Tajikistan and Turkmenistan Tuesday to assure their leaders of US support for security on their Afghan borders, as he nears the end of his

A new Croatian centre set up to improve the journey of refugees and migrants opened its doors on Tuesday, receiving about 1,000 arrivals by train on a cold and foggy morning. The

Turkish warplanes have bombed bases of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Turkey and northern Iraq, the army said on Tuesday. “Shelters, caves and arms depots identified as being used by

Eight people died and many more were injured when a bus carrying Armenians overturned in central Russia as they were travelling to Yerevan, authorities said Tuesday. “Right now eight people have died,

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has extended the timeline for Nigerian bank customers in the Diaspora to enroll for their Bank Verification Numbers (BVN) to January 31, 2016. This is contained