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Kyiv and Moscow on Friday penned a landmark agreement with Turkey and the United Nations Friday to unblock Ukraine's Black Sea grain exports after a Russian blockade raised fears of...

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday he wanted a "rethink of all our (military) postures on the African continent" and had asked his ministers and army chiefs to work...

A man US officials called the leader of the Islamic State militant group in Syria was killed Tuesday in a drone strike, the Pentagon said. Maher al-Agal was killed while...

The United Nations announced Monday it will start monitoring the war in Ukraine and conflicts in Ethiopia, Mozambique and Africa's central Sahel region for violations against children, including killings, injuries,...

The UN forecast Monday in a report that the world's population is expected to reach eight billion on November 15, adding that India will surpass China as the most populous...

Two people died and 14 are missing after a passenger boat capsized in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos, emergency officials said on Sunday. "There were 16 passengers on board when the...

The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria apologized Friday to 1,551 intended pilgrims who missed Hajj because of flight delays to Saudi Arabia. It was the first-ever Hajj that was missed...

Haiti on Thursday marked one year since president Jovenel Moise was shot dead in his private residence, with no mastermind or motive for the attack yet identified, and the investigation...

War-driven inflation has pushed 71 million people into poverty in just three months since March 2022, according to the UN Development Program on Thursday. "The impact on poverty rates is...

More than 600 inmates escaped a Nigerian prison in the nation's capital during a terror attack, an official said Wednesday. Defense Minister Bashir Magashi said assailants, suspected to be from...