Hundreds of thousands of voters in Burkina Faso were unable to cast ballots in Sunday’s general election due to security threats, officials said, as the West African nation grapples with a growing jihadist insurgency. An undisclosed number of troops were deployed for the presidential and parliamentary polls, which are widely expected to see President Roch […]

Britain’s Supreme Court will on Monday hear the case of a woman stripped of her UK citizenship after joining the Islamic State in Syria, who wants to return to appeal the ruling. The government in July won its bid to have the country’s highest court consider whether Shamima Begum, 20, should be allowed to return […]

Chancellor Angela Merkel and her deputy, Finance Minister Olaf Scholz, have prepared Germans in principle for a tightening of the current partial lockdown ahead of talks with the premiers of the country’s 16 federal states planned for Wednesday.   Restaurants, bars and other venues were closed for the month of November and contacts restricted to […]

Leaders of the Group of 20 (G20) major economies on Sunday pledged “affordable and equitable access” to vaccines against the coronavirus as the global pandemic overshadowed their annual summit. “We have mobilized resources to address the immediate financing needs in global health to support the research, development, manufacturing, and distribution of safe and effective Covid-19 […]

The “crimes” committed by the United States against Iran do not prevent “carefully considered” exchanges from taking place, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman said Sunday. “The future of relations between Iran and the United States is not simple,” Saeed Khatibzadeh acknowledged at a press conference in Tehran, as President Hassan Rouhani’s government makes signs of apparent […]