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The UK’s National Crime Agency announced on Wednesday it had arrested the suspected leader of an international criminal operation supplying small boats to people smugglers taking migrants across the Channel. The numbers of migrants crossing the...

Sri Lanka will have to endure its unprecedented economic hardships for at least two more years, the country’s finance minister said on Wednesday while warning of an imminent cash crunch. Months of blackouts and acute shortages...

The armed group al-Shabab has attacked an African Union mission troop camp in the Shabelle region in central Somalia, a local elder and the group have said. Local elder Mohamed Nur stated that they were awoken...

The incident occurred outside the international stadium in the heart of the capital, during prayers. Ethiopian police used tear gas to disperse young Muslims in Addis Ababa during prayers to mark the end of Ramadan in...

Turkish police on Sunday detained more than 160 protesters who were trying to hold a May Day rally in defiance of a ban imposed by the governor’s office. AFP images showed riot police clashing with protesters...

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta announced on Sunday a 12-percent hike in the minimum wage as the country confronts a surge in the cost of living. Inflation in the East African economic powerhouse jumped to a seven-month...