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South Africa’s Zuma To Visit Iran On Sunday: Statement

South Africa's President Jacob Zuma will visit Iran on Sunday and Monday to "strengthen bilateral relations between the two countries" the presidency said on Monday without elaborating. Pretoria is considering building an oil refinery that will process Iranian crude to...

Libya’s NOC Warns Of More Islamic State Attacks On Oil Facilities

Libya's oil facilities are likely to suffer further attacks unless a United Nations-backed unity government is approved, the head of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) told Reuters in an interview on Monday. Mustafa Sanalla also said suspected Islamic State militants...

Violence Rages In Syria As Kerry And Lavrov Reach Provisional Deal On Ceasefire

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday he and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, had reached a provisional agreement on terms of a cessation of hostilities in Syria and the sides were closer to a ceasefire than...

U.S. Rejected North Korea Peace Talks Offer Before Last Nuclear Test: State Department

The United States rejected a North Korean proposal to discuss a peace treaty to formally end the Korean War because it did not address denuclearization on the peninsula, the State Department said on Sunday. State Department spokesman John Kirby made...

Jeb Bush Gives Up On White House Race, Suspends Campaign

BEVERLY HILLS, February 21, (THEWILL) – Former Governor Jeb Bush has suspended his campaign, ending a quest for the White House, after disappointing finishes in the first three contests of the 2016 election cycle. Jeb Bush dropped out of the...

Four-Year-Old Sentenced To Life In Prison For Murder

SAN FRANCISCO, February 20, (THEWILL) –  An Egyptian court has sentenced a four-year-old boy, Ahmed Mansour Karni, to life in prison for committing four murders, attempting another eight, vandalising property and threatening police officers - all before the age...

U.S. Strikes Islamic State In Libya, More Than 40 Dead

U.S. warplanes carried out air strikes against Islamic State-linked militants in western Libya on Friday, killing as many as 40 people in an operation targeting a suspect linked to two deadly attacks last year in neighboring Tunisia. It was the...

Security, Political Tensions Cloud Niger’s Presidential Vote

Niger will hold an election on Sunday in which President Mahamadou Issoufou is running for a new term with a vow to crush an Islamist militant threat, but the opposition accuses him of another type of crackdown - against...

Tear Gas Protest Keeps Gag On Kosovo Parliament

Kosovo opposition lawmakers released tear gas in parliament on Friday, forcing the abandonment of this year's first legislative session as part of a long-running protest against a deal to grant the country's ethnic Serb minority more power. They have kept...

U.S. Adds Visa Restrictions To Yemen, Somalia, Libya Travelers

The United States has added Yemen, Somalia and Libya as "countries of concern" under its visa waiver program, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said on Thursday, in a move that will make U.S. visa procedures more stringent for...