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Michel Temer became president by "tearing up the Brazilian constitution", says former President Dilma Rousseff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcUQ_evqEpg

By Rachael Revesz Rep Steve King, a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, is a chief proponent of the measure which was found to be likely illegal in a recent report Donald Trump was urged in a meeting to launch a large-scale, surveillance program of...

A decade after the Somali pirate threat began to paralyze the maritime trade off East Africa, harming Seychelles’ tourism numbers in the process, NATO on Thursday will formally end its counter-piracy operation known as Operation Ocean Shield. Seychelles should see the end of the international...

WASHINGTON President Barack Obama said Thursday the United States will retaliate against Russian hacking aimed at interfering in the US election. "I think there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections that we need to take action,"...

WASHINGTON Yahoo said Wednesday personal data from over a billion users was stolen in a hack dating back to 2013 — twice as big as another breach disclosed just three months ago. In a huge blow to the struggling internet pioneer, Yahoo said it made the...

By Ta-Nehisi Coates A history of the first African American White House—and of what came next the waning days of President Barack Obama’s administration, he and his wife, Michelle, hosted a farewell party, the full import of which no one could then grasp. It was...

BANJUL The UN's west Africa envoy on Wednesday said Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh must step down as soon as his mandate ends in January to allow election winner Adama Barrow to take office. | Mohamed Ibn Chambas said that Jammeh, who is contesting his presidential election defeat,...

South Sudan’s president Salva Kiir has called for a national dialogue to end the country’s three-year civil war. Kiir’s call comes at the start of the traditional fighting season and on the eve of the civil war’s third anniversary. In a speech to parliament on Wednesday,...

By ANNE BARNARD BEIRUT, Lebanon — Russia declared on Tuesday that the four-year battle over Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, was over, as the last remaining rebel fighters agreed to turn over their territory to the Syrian government. While pro-government forces were moving in, United Nations...

STIG JARLE HANSEN On Oct. 26, Islamic State fighters seized control of the ancient port town of Qandala in northern Somalia, marking the group’s most significant territorial acquisition to date in that country. In a propaganda video released the following day — and described in...