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A COURT in Guatemala on Monday sentenced a former police chief to 90 years for an assault on the Spanish embassy in 1980 when a group of protesting Indians, peasants and university

A KENYAN school bus driver died after drinking a potion brewed by a “witchdoctor” to prove he had not stolen books, sparking angry protests from villagers, a report said Tuesday. The school

THE government is calling for a fundamental overhaul of how the NHS tackles suicides. Deputy PM Nick Clegg says many suicides are preventable and wants hospitals to aim to end all such

HOUTHI rebels have exchanged fire with the army in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa. The two sides clashed early on Monday morning near the palace of President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, with gunfire heard across

EU foreign ministers will meet on Monday to discuss the terror threat in Europe in the wake of recent attacks.Europe is on high alert after a failed terrorist plot in Belgium and

DAY after day from morning to night, a small cadre of wordsmiths searches for the right message, tone and cadence for the US president to speak to the American people. When President

BANGLADESH police on Monday removed stringent security stationed around opposition leader Khaleda Zia’s office in Dhaka, ending her forced confinement after 16 days, amid renewed deadly political unrest. Authorities had ordered the

THE Libyan army has declared a partial ceasefire, two days after some of the militias based in western Libya announced a unilateral truce. The ceasefire was due to begin at midnight on

MALI’S health minister says the country is now free of the Ebola virus, after 42 days without a new case of the disease. “I declare this day… the end of the epidemic

THERE has been heavy fighting in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk as government forces upped operations against Russian-backed militants. A government spokesman said Ukrainian forces had retaken most of the area