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A bomb attack on the governor’s temporary headquarters in Yemen’s main southern city of Aden on Thursday killed four people and wounded 10 others, security officials and medics said. Governor Nayef al-Bakri

Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza was sworn in for a controversial third term in power Thursday, the presidency said, following elections last month, weeks of protests and a failed coup. Nkurunziza took the

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has ordered part of frontier with Colombia closed after four people were wounded in an overnight attack along the border. Speaking late Wednesday on state-run VTV television, Maduro

Turkey’s election authority proposed November 1 as a possible date for early elections after the failure of attempts to form a coalition government following June 7 polls, the state-run Anatolia news agency

Britain and France were to announce a new “command and control centre” Thursday for tackling smuggling gangs in Calais, where thousands of migrants desperate to cross the Channel are living in slum-like

Greece has repaid 3.4 billion euros ($3.79 billion) due to the European Central Bank Thursday, a source close to the Greek government said after the launch of a massive new reforms-for-bailout deal.

Scores of firefighters on Thursday fought a blaze at Paris’ Cite des Sciences, one of the biggest science museums in Europe, the fire brigade said. The fire, which broke out before dawn