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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard call shooting an act of terrorism Quebec provincial police say six people are dead and eight were wounded after shots were fired inside a mosque on Sunday night during evening prayers. Sûreté du Québec Sgt. Christine Coulombe says...

Donald Trump’s executive order to halt travel from seven Muslim-majority countries – Iraq, Syria, Iran, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia – has provoked a wave of concern and condemnation from international leaders and politicians. A spokesman for Angela Merkel said the German chancellor regretted Trump’s...

BRITISH Olympic champion Mo Farah could find himself caught up in Donald Trump’s Muslim ban after it emerged the policy applies to people with dual citizenship. The runner, who has a training base in the US, is a British passport holder but was born in...

LUSAKA-Zambian police officers have been warned that it is illegal for them to marry foreigners, officials said Thursday, in a crackdown over national security. The move to strictly enforce long-established wedding regulations attracted criticism from human rights groups that described it as discrimination. The police force...

GENEVA Switzerland on Thursday detained former Gambian interior minister Ousman Sonko, who is under investigation for crimes against humanity during the regime of ex-president Yahya Jammeh. The arrest and probe come as The Gambia Monday welcomed their new president Adama Barrow, who had fled to Senegal...

US refugee programme suspended for 120 days and Syrian refugees barred until further notice. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order suspending the US refugee programme for 120 days, specifically barring Syrian refugees until further notice. Trump signed the order at the Pentagon, saying the...

Hamas spokesman Osama Hamdan on the new unity government and Trump, and Guy Verhofstadt discusses the EU and Brexit. In this week's UpFront, Mehdi Hasan speaks to Hamas senior leader and spokesman Osama Hamdan, who discusses the new Palestinian unity government and how Hamas will...

By STELLA CHERONO More than 90 Somali nationals and two Kenyans on Wednesday arrived at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport after being deported from the United States. The deportees, believed to have been affected by US President Donald Trump’s implementation of his pledge to crack down on...

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Thursday temporarily blocking people from several countries from entering the US on visas. The list of countries reportedly includes Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen — all Muslim-majority countries. Trump peddled this...

Somalia, South Sudan and Syria are the most corrupt countries in the world, according to newly released figures. The UK has come in 10th at the other end of the corruption rankings, making it one of the world’s least corrupt countries, with Ireland 19th. Experts from...