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US Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan said Monday that the deployment of US military assets was to counter a "credible threat" from Iran. The deployment of a US aircraft…

A total of 432 people have been killed and 2,069 others injured in the fighting between the UN-backed Libyan government and the east-based army in and around the capital Tripoli,…

South African Airways (SAA) said Sunday it would establish its first direct flight between Johannesburg and China's Guangzhou in September. SAA CEO Vuyani Jarana said this is aimed at catering…

Anti-corruption and financial investigations prosecution in Sudan on Sunday questioned ousted President Omar al-Bashir on charges against him, Sudan's Ashorooq website reported. Sudan's acting Attorney General Al-Waleed Sid-Ahmed Mahmoud on…

United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat on Monday welcomed the strong cooperation and collaboration between the two organizations. The two leaders…

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi met on Monday in the capital Cairo with European Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development Neven Mimica and discussed boosting cooperation between Europe and Egypt. During…

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Monday that the UN and the African Union (AU) will strengthen cooperation in tackling climate change and securing financing for development. Climate change and…

Russian emergency workers have recovered 41 bodies and two flight recorders from the wreckage of a plane that caught fire during an emergency landing in Moscow, officials said Monday as…

  NASA has released a combination photo of 7,500 separate Hubble exposures after 16 years of observations. The image contains 265,000 galaxies that stretch through 13.3 billion years of time,…

Jessica Anderson, a nurse at the Royal London Hospital, was told her Guinness World Record attempt at the London Marathon would not count because she was not wearing a dress.…