Pope Francis on Thursday stepped up his recent criticisms of Israel's military campaign in Gaza, calling the humanitarian situation in the Palestinian enclave "very serious and shameful".

Mozambique opposition leader Venâncio Mondlane returned home on Thursday, after fleeing in the days following a hotly contested October election that sparked demonstrations in which scores of ...

Billionaire Elon Musk has held private discussions with allies about removing British Prime Minister Keir Starmer from his position before the next general election, the Financial Times reported on ...

Authorities moved more than 45,000 people in earthquake-hit Tibet to shelters in a massive rescue operation near the foot of the Himalayas, as they wound down the search in a high-altitude environment ...

The study site, Kurukop, is in South Africa’s Northern Cape province, in the Nama Karoo region, where the geological formation began to accumulate from about 300 million years ago, before the breakup ...

As global bond markets take a breather from their recent panic, investors are left wondering if the UK’s economic woes and Trump’s national emergency plans will reignite the selloff, while stocks ...

Crews battling multiple wildfires that raged across Los Angeles on Wednesday were up against a near-perfect storm: intense wind, low humidity and, most troubling for residents, inadequate supplies of ...

A Russian guided bomb attack on Wednesday killed at least 13 people and injured 29 others in Ukraine’s southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, said authorities, adding that the number of victims could rise ...

Italian journalist Cecilia Sala was freed by Iran on Wednesday and returned home, three weeks after she was detained in Tehran during a reporting trip.

Shell will write down around $400-million over an oil discovery offshore Namibia that it deemed commercially unviable in a blow to the southern African country's efforts to become a crude producer.

The Ethekwini (Durban) municipality has banned swimming at two major tourist beaches after numerous, sand-coated “beach balls” washed up along the Umhlanga beachfront.

Federal Reserve officials agreed that inflation is likely to continue to slow this year, but also saw a rising risk that price pressures may remain sticky as policymakers began wrestling with the ...