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Nine people were killed and 16 others injured in a gas explosion in eastern Algeria which caused a three-storey building to collapse, national television said. Rescue workers were searching the rubble in the town of Bordj...

By Emmanuel Nduka The US Senate on Thursday confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first female black Judge to sit on the US Supreme Court. The confirmation means the US Supreme Court will have a black...

Former Guinean prime minister Ibrahima Kassory Fofana and three ex-ministers in the West African state have been detained for embezzlement charges. Fofana served as prime minister under ex-president Alpha Conde from May 2018 until September 2021,...

Five people have died in a train crash in Hungary on Tuesday when a van drove onto the rails at a crossing, causing the train to derail, police said. All of the victims were passengers in...

Will Smith has tendered his resignation from the body that awards the Oscars after his attack on Chris Rock during the weekend ceremony, a statement said. The actor wrote in a statement carried by multiple outlets...

President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday held his first rally of the French election campaign, with far-right rival Marine Le Pen eating into what once seemed his unassailable lead barely a week ahead of the ballot. The...