Several government offices, schools and a police station were attacked to destroy voting material in Guinea ahead of a controversial constitutional referendum scheduled for Sunday. The vote for a new constitution, due to take place on March 1 but delayed by Guinea’s leader Alpha Conde, is seen by critics as an attempt by the president […]

The US Congress resumed negotiations Saturday on a $1 trillion emergency economic package to help the country deal with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. There was some optimism in the US Capitol that Democrats and Republicans could reach a deal, despite their failure to do so Friday, as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had hoped. […]

Country music legend Kenny Rogers, whose career spanned six decades and helped bring the genre into the mainstream, has died at the age of 81, his family announced. Here are 21 facts about the Country Music legend Was Born in a housing project in Houston, Texas Started his career in the late 1950s Hits songs […]

Zimbabwe president Emmerson Mnangagwa attended the investiture of his Namibian counterpart Hage Geingob in Windhoek on Saturday, defying his own government’s ban on anyone leaving the country over coronavirus. Mnangagwa had insisted earlier in the week in Harare that he was equally bound to observe the travel ban. “I will only go out when it […]

Tens of thousands of Iraqi Shiites turned out to commemorate a revered imam on Saturday, defying curfews imposed to stem the spread of the coronavirus. On foot, they streamed to the golden-domed mausoleum of Imam al-Kadhim in Baghdad, where authorities kept an outer gate open to allow pilgrims into the surrounding courtyard. The inner shrine […]