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A South African king is set to go to jail after the country's highest court threw out his bid to overturn a 12-year prison sentence. King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo was convicted of kidnapping, assault and arson. He has been ordered to report...

A ruling party MP in Zimbabwe has been charged with making "insulting" remarks about the first lady Grace Mugabe. Justice Wadyajena was accused of using "abusive language" against a fellow Zanu-PF party member, who had a portrait of Mrs Mugabe...

Egypt said on Monday it had found no evidence so far of terrorism or other illegal action linked to the crash of a Russian passenger plane in Sinai that killed all 224 people on board on Oct. 31. Russia and...

At least 34 bodies have been found in Burundi's capital after the worst night of violence in recent times. Most of the bodies found on the streets of Bujumbura appear to be young men killed by gunfire, some with their...

Saudi Arabian women voted for the first time on Saturday in local council elections and also stood as candidates, a step hailed by some activists in the Islamic patriarchy as a historic change, but by others as merely symbolic. "As...

A ceasefire in Yemen's civil war will start on Dec. 14, the eve of planned peace talks in Switzerland next week, the head of the Houthi delegation to the peace talks said on Saturday. "Based on what had been agreed...

North and South Korea ended talks on Saturday without coming to any joint agreement, South Korean media reported. Hwang Boogi, South Korea's chief delegate, was quoted by the Yonhap News agency as saying the two Koreas had not scheduled any...

At least 848 Afghan civilians were killed or wounded following a Taliban attack on the northern city of Kunduz in September, according to a U.N. report that detailed the grim conditions endured by residents during two weeks of fighting. The...

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has warned the country's security services not to get involved in politics. Army, police and intelligence officers were taking sides in the ruling Zanu-PF party's infighting over the battle to succeed him, he said. Such factionalism was...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has appeared to suggest his country possesses a hydrogen bomb, in comments published on state media. The country was "ready to detonate a self-reliant A-bomb and H-bomb", KCNA quoted him as saying. If true, the development...