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Former Chadian president Hissene Habre, who was serving a life term in Senegal for war crimes and crimes against humanity, has died, Senegalese Justice Minister Malick Sall said Tuesday. He was 79. “Habre is in his Lord’s hands,” Sall…

Airbnb has offered free housing to 20,000 Afghan refugees globally on Tuesday and sought more assistance from hosts who rent property through the home-sharing company. The American company operates an online marketplace for lodging,…

Taliban will not announce the makeup of its government until the United States completes its troop withdrawal, two sources in the movement told AFP Monday. “It has been decided that the formation of the government and cabinet will not be…

Hurricane Grace has killed at least eight people, including five children from the same family, as it tore through eastern Mexico on Saturday, causing flooding, mudslides and damage to homes and businesses. The storm made landfall in…

Several buildings on Capitol Hill were evacuated in a bomb scare on Thursday, as police negotiated with a man in a pickup truck threatening to detonate explosives near the site — targeted months ago in a deadly insurrection. Much of the…

Death toll from a massive earthquake in Haiti has soared past 2,000 on Wednesday as relief workers warned of challenges to aid efforts five days after thousands of people were left homeless. The number of people killed in Saturday’s…

Former Afghan president, Ashraf Ghani has finally broken his silence after leaving his country to escape the Taliban militants. Ghani ran for his life as Taliban forces entered Kabul on Sunday, August 15. Speaking from exile today, in…

United Arab Emirates has on Wednesday said that it is hosting former Afghan president, Ashraf Ghani and his family "on humanitarian grounds", after he fled his country amid a Taliban takeover. The Middle East country in a brief statement…

Taliban have offered a pledge of reconciliation, vowing no revenge against opponents and to respect women’s rights in a “different” rule of Afghanistan from two decades ago. The announcements came on Tuesday night shortly after the…

Girls wearing white hijabs and black tunics have resumed school in the western Afghan city of Herat just days after the Taliban’s takeover. As the school opened its doors, the students scurried down corridors and chatted in courtyards,…

Uganda has on Tuesday said it was considering a US request to take in refugees from Afghanistan, where tens of thousands of people are trying to flee after the Taliban seized power. Hundreds of Afghans are fleeing the country after the…

Russia's embassy in Kabul has claimed Afghanistan President, Ashraf Ghani fled the country with four cars and a helicopter full of cash and had to leave some money behind as it would not all fit in, RIA news agency reports. Recall…

The Taliban has announced on Tuesday, August 17 an “amnesty” across Afghanistan and urged women to join its government, trying to calm nerves across a nervous capital city that only the day before saw chaos at its airport as people tried to…

Death toll in the earthquake in southern Haiti has risen to 1,297 people, the country’s civil protection authority said Sunday. U.S. Geological Survey declared a red alert after the 7.2-magnitude quake struck Saturday morning about…