Thousands of protesters gathered outside the Sudanese military headquarters in Khartoum late Thursday to pressure the country's ruling generals to cede power, as security officers ordered Qatari news broadcaster Al Jazeera to close its office in the capital.
A semi-truck and a bus carrying passengers back from a pilgrimage to a Catholic shrine crashed and burst into flames Wednesday in eastern Mexico, killing at least 21 people, officials said.
Algeria is to investigate the death in custody of a prominent human rights activist, the country's justice ministry said.
Seven South Koreans have died and 19 others are missing after a river cruise boat capsized and sank on the Danube in Budapest, Hungarian and South Korean officals said Thursday.
Huawei said Wednesday the tech giant will ask a US court to throw out US legislation that bars federal agencies from buying its products.
President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner met Morocco's King Mohammed VI on Tuesday in Rabat as part of a fresh push on a long-promised but yet-to-be-delivered peace plan for the region.
One of the most-wanted Egyptian militants who was captured in neighbouring Libya last year has been transferred to Egypt, state media reported on Wednesday.
Facebook and Twitter said Tuesday they shuttered accounts used in an Iran-based social media campaign to sway public opinion by impersonating reporters, politicians and others.
Amnesty International has called for an investigation into the killing of three activists during a deadly clash between Pakistani troops and protesters in a restive tribal region near the Afghan border.
Local media says the attack killed a schoolgirl and the suspected attacker, who was taken into custody by police, had died after stabbing himself
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez was the big winner of European elections in Spain on Sunday with his ruling Socialists coming first, a result he will likely use to wield more influence in the bloc.
Qatar said on Sunday that it had received an invitation from Saudi Arabia to attend emergency regional talks to discuss mounting tensions between Iran and the United States.
Donald Trump today became the first foreign leader to meet with Japan's newly enthroned Emperor Naruhito - an honour Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hopes will help charm the US president when it comes to thorny trade talks.
Clashes between inmates killed 15 people at a jail in Amazonas state in northern Brazil on Sunday, the regional prison authority said.
British Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday announced in an emotional address that she will step down as Conservative leader on June 7 after failing to persuade MPs to support her Brexit deal.
The American military is going to set up tents near the US-Mexico border to temporarily house adult undocumented migrants held by immigration authorities, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.
Populists are hoping to cause upsets across the EU as the European Parliament elections get under way today in polls that could challenge the Brussels consensus.
India began yesterday the mammoth process of counting the roughly 600 million votes cast in the world's biggest election, with results due later in the day.
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