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A Congolese military court has sentenced a high-ranking policeman to death for his role in the 2010 murder of 'human rights activist' Floribet Chebeya, which caused national outrage. The Commissioner of police Christian Ngoy Kenga Kenga…

A Malawian court has sentenced three men to 155 years in jail for killing a person with Albinism. Among the culprits is the man’s uncle who together with two other individuals confessed to killing the victim. The three men aged…

Kosovo’s government says it will apply for membership in the European rights watchdog the Council of Europe, "seizing an opportunity after Russia quit the body."  The announcement came on Thursday, about two months after Russia left the…

North Korea reported its first COVID-19 outbreak on Thursday, calling it the "gravest national emergency" and ordering a national lockdown, with state media saying an Omicron variant had been detected in the capital, Pyongyang. North…

A small passenger plane carrying 11 people "crashed in a forest near Cameroon's capital, Yaoundé," the transport ministry said. The cause of the crash was not immediately clear, but the plane lost radio contact with air…

One of President Vladimir Putin's closest allies warned the West on Thursday that the increasing military support given to Ukraine by the United States and its allies risked triggering a conflict between Russia and the NATO military…

Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili will be offered a transfer from prison to a private clinic for a medical check-up, news agencies quoted the justice ministry as saying on Tuesday, after "staging two hunger strikes'' since…

Russian President Vladimir Putin told regional officials on Tuesday to deal with forest fires in Siberia and said there could be no repeat of last year's fire season, the worst on record. In an online meeting shown on state TV, Putin…

Tourists who were reported as having disappeared in Namibia’s Fish River Canyon have been accounted for, local authorities have said. A search was launched for the hikers over the weekend amid uncertainty over their actual…

The Philippines woke to a new but familiar political landscape on Tuesday, after an election triumph by Ferdinand Marcos Jr. paved the way for a once unimaginable return to the country's highest office for its most notorious political…