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Mali expects Russia to send shipments of fuel, fertiliser and food worth around $100 million to Mali in the coming weeks, the West African country’s economy minister, Alousseini Sanou, said on Wednesday. Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the p…

Pope Francis, leader of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics, flies on Thursday to the Gulf state of Bahrain to foster ties with Islam in a voyage overshadowed by criticism of human rights abuses. The second voyage by a pope to the Arabian Peninsula after…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States announced Wednesday it will seek to oust Iran from the U.N.’s premiere global body fighting for gender equality because of its violation of the rights of women and girls and its ongoing crackdown on demonstrators…

An Egyptian prisoner has died two months after launching a hunger strike inside Badr 3 prison to protest inhumane conditions he and his fellow inmate suffered behind bars, the Egyptian Network for Human Rights (ENHR) said in a statement on Tuesday. “La…

The United States on Tuesday issued sanctions targeting Islamic State in Somalia, designating members of the group and others it accused of being involved in a “terrorist weapons trafficking network” in Eastern Africa. The US Treasury Department in a s…

The British Consulate in Jerusalem on Tuesday refused to receive Palestinians who presented a letter of protest to coincide with the 105th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration. Activists from the Palestinian National League of Independents and the In…

Hundreds of asylum seekers at a notorious UK immigration processing centre have been evacuated after “dangerous overcrowding” at the site, according to local media. Manston, a former military base, houses around 4,000 refugees, despite having space for…

British police will be deployed to the World Cup to act as a “buffer” between England and Wales fans and Qatari law enforcement, according to British chief constable Mark Roberts, in a bid to reduce the risk of football hooliganism. The officers will b…

Fatima Iqbal-Zubair wasn’t going to let a new election map stop her from running for office. After she was drawn out of her district, she sold her house and moved her family into her home district of south Los Angeles so that she could run for office t…

An Iranian delegation will visit Vienna in the coming days to try to narrow differences with the UN nuclear watchdog, Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said. “We will send a delegation from Iran to Vienna in the coming days to start talks…