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Houston Flooding: Man City Friendly In Doubt After Record Rainfall

Manchester City's friendly trip to face Major League Soccer side Houston Dynamo is in doubt after flooding in the city. The Premier League team, who are on a two-game post-season tour of the United States and Canada, are scheduled to...

Iran Says Nuclear Talks With Powers Might Be Extended Past June 30

A self-imposed deadline of June 30 for Iran and six major powers to reach a final nuclear deal to resolve a decade-long standoff may be extended, Iran's state TV reported. France's ambassador to the United States, Gerard Araud, said on...

Madagascar President Challenges Impeachment Vote Count

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Madagascar President Hery Rajaonarimampianina challenged on Wednesday an impeachment vote against him in parliament, where critics say he has dragged religion into politics and failed to deliver on his promises. The vote by 121 of 151 members of parliament late...

Captured Video Appears To Show Foreign Fighters In Nigeria’s Boko Haram

Video footage found in captured Boko Haram camps by Nigeria's military and seen by Reuters seems to give some of the clearest indication that foreign fighters hold positions of power within the Nigerian Islamist militant group. The military says it...

Couple Leaves $850,000 Estate To U.S. Government

A Seattle couple left nearly $850,000 to the U.S. government as a gesture of thanks to their adopted country. Peter Petrasek, who emigrated from Czechoslovakia after World War II, and his wife Joan stipulated in their will that all of...

Liberia Given Go-Ahead To Host Matches At Home

Liberia have been told by the Confederation of African Football they can play home matches following the end of the Ebola epidemic in the country. Caf banned them from hosting matches in July last year and the country stopped sport...

Volatile Burundi Seeks A New Politics

"There are politics and politics, different kinds of politics." So goes the chorus to one of the Burundian protesters' favourite songs. They say it was invented on the first day of demonstrations against President Pierre Nkurunziza's bid for a third...

Boko Haram Crisis: ‘Buhari Hope’ For Nigerian Death-Row Soldiers

Nigeria's incoming president may review the death sentences of 66 soldiers convicted for refusing to fight Boko Haram, a lawyer has said. Femi Falana told the BBC that Muhammadu Buhari had promised to review all operations against the militants. He said...

Suicide Bomber Strikes Saudi Shi’ite Mosque, Many Dead Or Wounded

A suicide bomber blew himself up at a Shi'ite mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia during Friday prayers, residents said, killing around 20 people and wounding more than 50, local residents and a hospital officials said. No one immediately claimed responsibility...

China Says U.S. Actions In South China Sea ‘Irresponsible, Dangerous’

China said on Friday it was "strongly dissatisfied" after a U.S. military plane flew over part of the South China Sea near where China is building artificial islands, and called on the United States to stop such action or...