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By Ebi Kesiena President Vladimir Putin will on Saturday oversee military drills involving Russian “strategic forces” which will include ballistic and cruise missile launches, the defence ministry said. News of the drills come as Russia announces...

By Ebi Kesiena A five-year-old boy trapped for three days down a remote Afghan village well died moments after being pulled out alive, officials said on Friday. The child, named Haidar, slipped Tuesday to the bottom...

By Emmanuel Nduka Burkina Faso’s junta leader, Lt. Col. Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba was sworn in as the country’s President on Wednesday, some weeks after he led the ousting of former President Roch Kabore. In a televised...

China may take advantage of the Ukraine crisis and do something provocative in Asia while Western powers are focused on defusing tensions with Russia, a US general warned Wednesday. Russia’s deployment of more than 100,000 troops...

By Ebi Kesiena South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday said his government was closely watching ongoing anti-migrant protests to prevent them from descending into xenophobic attacks, amid growing public anger at foreigners. As the continent’s...

By Ebi Kesiena UN peacekeepers in Cyprus searched Tuesday for a three-year-old girl lost in the buffer zone dividing the Mediterranean island, after she was separated from her parents and sister while they were trying to...