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By Gabriela Baczynska and Alastair Macdonald | BRUSSELS Encouraged by their success in halting a mass influx of refugees by closing Greek borders and cutting a controversial deal with Turkey, EU leaders are getting tough on African migrants too. A Brussels summit on Thursday will endorse...

Dubai International Airport and its flag carrier Emirates began implementing a ban on laptops and tablets on direct flights to the US Saturday, on one of the busiest travel weekends of the year. Around 1.1 million people are expected to pass through the world's busiest...

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump said he believes former President Barack Obama has been behind the leaks within his administration and the sizable, angry town hall crowds Republicans have faced across the country. Trump was asked in an interview on Fox News' "Fox and Friends" if...

  Men tell of extreme deprivation during years in the clutches of pirates after their ship was seized in March 2012 Sailors who had been held hostage by pirates for more than four years, and were released in Somalia on Saturday, smile as they arrive at...

 The African Union will be holding a virtual meeting today to deliberate on the progress made in the resolution of a dispute between Egypt and Ethiopia regarding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). The virtual meeting of the AU Bureau of the Assembly of Heads...

Dozens of anti-government protesters have been killed and arrested by government authorities amid ongoing unrest in Ethiopia. For months, hundreds of thousands of protestors from Ethiopia’s largest ethnic groups have rallied to protest political marginalization and systematic persecution by the government. In June, a 61-page...

NEW YORK, United States, 24 August 2016,-/African Media Agency (AMA)-/ aKoma Media, a content platform and storytelling company focused on Africa, is pleased to announce the inaugural session of Amplify, a media and content creation program in partnership with The MasterCard Foundation. Amplify's mission is...

By:TRT WORLD South Africa's government has recalled its ambassador and diplomatic mission to Israel in condemnation of the bombardment of Palestine's Gaza, calling it a "genocide." The government also threatened action against the Israeli...

By:Trt world Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has criticised the United Nations Security Council for its failure to adopt a resolution that would have allowed humanitarian aid access to Palestine's Gaza amid relentless Israeli attacks.

Horndiplomat-Two men who took several people hostage in the Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray church shot by police, officials say. At least one hostage has been killed by two knife-wielding men in a church in France's northern Normandy region, the interior ministry said. The Paris-based AFP news agency, citing the...