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Troops loyal to Burkina Faso's government massed in the capital on Tuesday and told soldiers behind a coup to disarm and surrender by 10 a.m. or face attack, a loyalist officer said, setting up a showdown over control of...

Hungary's prime minister has called for a "united European stance" on migration at the start of a week of intense diplomatic activity. Viktor Orban urged consensus, saying migrants were "breaking the doors" and "millions" could reach Europe. Foreign ministers from Poland,...

A residential property in Cape Town owned by the Zimbabwean government was auctioned for 3.76 million rand ($281,500) on Monday, in a symbolic victory against the land grab policies of President Robert Mugabe, lawyers said. In 2008, a tribunal set...

At least 54 people were killed and 90 wounded in a multiple bomb attack in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri in Borno state on Sunday evening, a police spokesman said on Monday. The city has been free of attack...

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi pledged to form a government free from corruption, empower workers and end reliance on foreign aid, as she campaigned on Monday for the southeast Asian country's first free national vote in 25...

Hungary and Croatia traded threats on Saturday as thousands of exhausted migrants poured over their borders, deepening the disarray in Europe over how to handle the tide of humanity. More than 20,000 migrants, many of them refugees from the Syrian...

Hundreds of protesters burned tyres and erected barricades in the streets of Burkina Faso's capital on Saturday in a third day of unrest since a military coup ousted the country's interim government. Young people wielding sticks and slingshots dragged railway...

Burkina Faso's interim President Michel Kafando has been freed and is in good health, the new junta leaders say. However, Prime Minister Isaac Zida, who was also detained when the presidential guard stormed a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, remains under...

Croatia will "force" Hungary to accept migrants by continuing to send them to the border, its PM says. Zoran Milanovic's statement was the latest in an increasingly bad-tempered exchange of views over how to handle the migrant influx. Hungary has accused...

Migrants flooding into Croatia will be "moved on", PM Zoran Milanovic has warned, adding that his country cannot become a "migrant hotspot". He said the country's borders would not be shut completely, but it had reached its limit. His remarks came...