US President Donald Trump and rival Joe Biden hit the ground Sunday in the swing states that will decide the US election, as the campaign turns increasingly vicious 16 days before voting. Trump, scrambling to make up lost ground, is on a furious multi-state barnstorming tour hopping from Nevada to California and then back to […]

Belarusian police on Sunday detained more than 200 people as tens of thousands marched against strongman Alexander Lukashenko in defiance of police threats to open fire after weeks of demonstrations. Crowds of demonstrators waving red-and-white opposition flags descended on a gritty industrial neighbourhood in southeast Minsk for a march along Partisan Prospect, a key transport […]

Guinean President Alpha Conde is bidding for a third term in Sunday’s presidential election after nearly 10 years in power. Here is a recap of the key dates of Conde’s presidency. – 2010: Conde is elected – In November 2010 Guinea votes in its first democratic election since independence in 1958 and after decades of […]

Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok on Sunday promised cooperation with International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda as she gathered information on war crimes in Darfur. “This historic visit is a testimony to the total reform of the new Sudan,” said Hamdok, who succeeded toppled autocrat Omar al-Bashir. Bashir is in jail in Khartoum, but is […]

Thousands of Israelis demonstrated outside the official residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday night, resuming the weekly protest against the Israeli leader after emergency restrictions imposed as part of a coronavirus lockdown were lifted. The protests were curtailed last month after Israel imposed new lockdown measures in response to a new virus outbreak. […]