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Iceland's Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson is to step down after leaked documents from a Panamanian law firm showed his wife owned an offshore company with big claims on collapsed Icelandic banks, his party said. Gunnlaugsson became the first prominent...

Islamist rebels shot down a Syrian warplane and captured its pilot on Tuesday in an area south of Aleppo where insurgents are battling the Syrian army and allied militias, a monitoring group said. Syria's military confirmed that a plane on...

The African National Congress has given President Jacob Zuma the support he needs to survive an impeachment vote called after South Africa's top court ruled he had breached the constitution. Parliament will later on Tuesday debate and vote on a...

At an hour-long meeting in Moscow on March 23, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov irritated his German counterpart by raising the case of a German-Russian girl who said she was raped by migrants in Berlin earlier this year. After the...

About 25 people were killed on Monday across Iraq, most of them in suicide attacks targeting members of Shi'ite militias and military forces, security officials said. Islamic State, which controls territory in northern and western Iraq, claimed several of the...

Survivors of Ebola are holding protests across Sierra Leone over what they believe is a lack of government care. They say some people have died because they have not received proper medical treatment. Some women whose husbands died from Ebola say...

The first boats carrying migrants being deported from Greece have arrived in Turkey as part of an EU plan aimed at easing mass migration to Europe. Most of the 202 people who left Lesbos and Chios, and arrived at Dikili...

BEVERLY HILLS, April 02, (THEWILL) – South Africa's President, Mr Jacob Zuma on Friday denied having acted dishonestly, when he used about 16 million dollars taxpayers’ money to upgrade his rural home, but he pledged to pay back some...

The highest court in South Africa has ruled that President Jacob Zuma violated the constitution when he failed to repay government money spent on his private home. It gave the treasury 60 days to determine how much he should repay. The...

A former Rwandan minister has died in jail in Burundi nearly four months after being arrested for espionage. The successor to Jacques Bihozagara as Rwanda's ambassador to Belgium has called the death an assassination. No official reason has been given for...