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Greece’s left-wing prime minister-elect Alexis Tsipras has won a thumping poll victory that hands him a mandate to drive through unpopular reforms agreed under an austerity deal struck with international creditors. The

Japanese public support for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has dropped in the days since his ruling coalition rammed through legislation allowing the nation’s troops to fight abroad, opinion polls showed Monday. Parliament

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday congratulated Greece’s left-wing prime minister Alexis Tsipras on his thumping poll victory. Tsipras secured his second mandate as premier this year at a snap general election

Kenyans held prayers and lit candles in Nairobi on Monday to mark the second anniversary commemorations of the Westgate shopping mall attack by militants from Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shebab. In the Nakumatt supermarket

Conditions in war-torn South Sudan have worsened with thousands fleeing fighting since a ceasefire deal three weeks ago, the United Nations has warned. In the northern battleground state of Unity, thousands of

Two Americans, three Saudis and a Briton were in Oman on Monday after being released from months of detention by Yemeni rebels as they joined new talks with the UN peace envoy.

Two Philippine politicians wanted over the murder of a prominent anti-corruption crusader have been arrested in Thailand after more than three years on the run, the president’s office said Monday. Joel Reyes,

THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has debunked reports of crisis in the party over the proposed conference by the Reform Conference Committee headed by Prof. Jerry Gana. The party had on Wednesday

Medical doctors under the aegis of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) have taken a blueprint on how to improve healthcare in the country to the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, even as they

THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has launched a project to scale up prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV in Nigeria, Malawi and Zimbabwe. The five-year project aims to promote and