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MOUZINHO Saide, Mozambique Deputy Health Minister, said cholera outbreak in parts of Mozambique hit by floods has killed 19 people. He said on Wednesday in Maputo that another 158 people have died

GREECE’S new government headed for a showdown with sceptical European partners on Wednesday as it took its demands to renegotiate its huge bailout to crunch talks in Brussels. The emergency meeting of

TEN TransAsia ATR pilots have been banned from flying temporarily after failing a flight skills test ordered after last week’s plane crash that killed at least 42 people, the island’s aviation regulator

A DECADE after former prime minister Rafiq Hariri was assassinated, hopes that the fallout from his death would free Lebanon from Syria’s influence have been dashed by the war raging across the

PAKISTAN’S main intelligence agency probably knew where Osama Bin Laden was hiding and hoped to use him as a bargaining chip before he was killed by US forces in 2011, a former

SAUDI Arabia on Wednesday beheaded a Yemeni drug trafficker, the interior ministry announced, raising to 28 the number of executions in the kingdom this year. Nayef al-Briki was found guilty of “receiving

JON Stewart, the host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, will step down later this year. The comedian said it had “been an absolute privilege” to have been at the helm of

PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin will travel to Minsk to participate in a Ukraine peace summit together with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French leader Francois Hollande later Wednesday, the Kremlin said. “Russian President

AGAINST a background of crashing commodity prices, mining in Africa is facing increasing pressure as governments and investors struggle over distribution of the mineral wealth lying under much of the continent. The

THE leaders of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany were due to hold peace talks Wednesday aimed at halting a 10-month war in Ukraine where dozens were killed in the latest fighting. The