SADC leaders pledged commitment at crisis talks in Zimbabwe as M23 rebels advance on Bukavu, just days after seizing Goma. The UN says at least 700 people have been killed since Sunday.

According to local media reports, at least one house and multiple cars were on fire. Flight data showed the Learjet 55, carrying two people, took off from Northeast Philadelphia Airport at 6:06 p.m.

The UK has asked for "strong protections" for a joint UK-US military base on the Chagos Islands. Britain agreed last year to hand over the archipelago over to Mauritius after a decades-long dispute.

Months of talks have resulted in a five-party coalition agreement to be led by the right-wing N-VA party's Bart De Wever. He is now set to become the country's first nationalist prime minister.

Syria's new interim government is widely supported. But observers remain cautious over details for the country's democratic future. Is the political program inclusive enough to put Syria's feet back ...

Tromso police say they seized and then released a vessel sailing between two Russian ports. Swedish and Latvian investigators are looking into the severing of an underwater cable under the Baltic Sea.

The US president will impose 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico and 10% tariffs on goods from China. The charges ...

The US is the world's most important donor of development aid, and the repercussions of Trump's recent freeze are being felt from Botswana to Nepal. NGOs say they are in limbo, while governments hope ...

US diplomat Richard Grenell is visiting Venezuela to discuss repatriation of immigrants with Nicolas Maduro. However, the ...

The German parliament has narrowly rejected a law to tighten up asylum measures. The controversy over the law, and how it could have been passed with support from the far right AfD, have rocked German ...